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Create motion graphic templates

Create motion graphic templates - After Effects Tutorial

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Create motion graphic templates

- [Instructor] It should come as no surprise that Adobe has created tight integration among its applications and one of the best examples of this is a motion graphics template. This means that we can export various properties out of after-effects and change them directly inside of Premiere Pro. It's great for elements like lower thirds since the motion graphics template helps us keep a consistent look across our project. Let's look at how to achieve this integrated workflow by creating a motion graphics template of our own using the essential graphics panel. Here in this composition, I've got my lower third and you can see it's sitting on top of a piece of footage. Now, I want to export my lower third as a template. However, I don't want to export the footage along with it. So to prevent that from happening, let's come over to layer two, select it and up on the layer menu, let's enable guide layer. You'll notice now that…

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