Creating your own Motion Graphics Templates in Adobe Premiere Pro CC - DEEP DIVE!

hello and welcome to video revealed I'm Colin Smith let's talk about how to make your own motion graphics templates in Adobe Premiere Pro CC alright I have a previous tutorial on organizing importing and exporting if you need to do that this one is going to talk about creating them I'll have another one about animating them motion graphics templates mo Gertz as they're known are the new graphics engine in Adobe Premiere Pro where we can add text and shapes and animation and you can even import other graphics and videos you can bring in Photoshop files illustrator files videos whatever you want I'm going to show you how to create some simply I'll show you something called responsive design and then a few little gotchas here and there and a little tip I have for creating and drawing things like rounded rectangles which can be a little bit difficult so let's have a look first thing to do is to go to the graphics workspace up in the top if you don't see the graphics workspace in the window menu workspaces you can reset to saved layout there's a keyboard shortcut and you can now double click on one of these workspaces to reset it so I'm gonna go to my graphics workspace which will open up the graphics workspace over here on the right-hand side where I can get to all of my templates we're going to create new things so the toolbar that was down here on the left is now up near the top and the choices for creating templates are a pen tool rectangle tool ellipse tool type tool and vertical type tool now as soon as you click on something so as soon as I add a shape you'll see in the timeline ammo gird has been added here and the duration is based on the still frame duration so in the Edit menu on Windows the Premiere Pro menu on the Mac in preferences timeline you'll see the still image default duration five seconds if you change that to something like 10 seconds 20 seconds or one second then every pneumo Gert you make will be that duration this is just useful if you know you're about to go in and make a bunch of 20 second lower thirds you don't have to change each one so that's a sticky setting that's an application setting will be there okay the other thing that's important to recognize is we've clicked in here and created a template I'm in an HD sequence I've created an HD mo Gert you don't see it when you click on this shape here but in the effects control panel if we click on motion here you'll see we've got an outside shape if you change the position of that shape so I'm going to drag that over to the right here if this shape goes beyond that so if I go back to choosing that shape if it goes beyond that border it will chop off that's something to keep in mind if you're going to change the motion position settings and also the position settings of the object itself that's just a little gotcha I wanted to show you right away once you get you know some more advanced mo Gertz in that you're creating alright let me get rid of this and let's just create a simple text title you can use the type tool here or you can hold the ctrl key on the on windows command on Mac and type T so ctrl T on Windows command T on Mac so the new text layer shows up here if you double click on it you can add new text so my new title if you grab the move tool you can now position this anywhere on the frame this is this is just regular text and if we want to create a bar along with that then we can hold down on the pen tool and grab the rectangle tool so this tool will change depending on the last one so if you're wondering hey where did my pen tool go and you're looking at the rectangle remember that tiny little triangle there is an Adobe Q to let you know clicking and holding gets more tools you can't expand that so I'll drag this bar out and I'll go back and grab the move tool now obviously the this rectangle is hiding the text if we go to the except essential graphics panel you'll see at the top two different objects there's the first shape and there's the title you can drag these and change the stacking order so now I can see my title it's easier to position things each one of these has different settings and the other thing you notice there as I was dragging this is this red line that shows up and let me just reset my layout here if you click on the little button editor you'll see this button snap graphics and drag that out click OK now when this is turned on it will snap the graphic so that snapped into the center of that graphic if you turn that off and hold the control key on Windows - command key on Mac you'll get the same thing so if I was over here and I wanted that to snap I'm holding the command key or the control key and it's doing the same thing so this is snapping graphics which is really important when it comes to lining things up and having very clean designs okay I'll get to some more snapping in a second on the right hand side in the essential graphics panel you'll notice that we have controls for each one of these objects so if I click on my type object I've got text properties down at the bottom if I click just on the shape then I just have shape properties we'll get to responsive design in a second first of all we can align this so this is vertical Center horizontal Center which would place this in the middle of our frame we've got alignment tools over here for aligning things which I'll show you in a sec when I have more objects there's position information and there's also anchor point information scale properties rotation properties and opacity so these settings might look familiar to you if we look in our effects control panel position scale rotation Anchor Point and the opacity settings they are the same properties but they're independent of the motion settings I think most of the settings you will use are the independent settings over on the right-hand side because you have independent settings for each shape in each graphic I do have times when I will use the motion setting and I'll get to that in a second okay below all of those settings is the appearance where we can set a fill stroke and shadow if you click into the fill you'll notice that you can change the color of this it will not update while you're changing the color you need to click OK to see that update I'll go back into that fill to show you that we have three choices of fill type solid linear and radial gradient and when I choose a linear gradient the default is going to to show you two stops in here and below are the colors and the top is the opacity so this is similar to what Photoshop has so if if I choose the same color but at the top if I change the opacity you'll see this fades down and if this is at 50% in the middle and they click OK you can see our title has faded down you'll also notice this little handle in here and if I drag that handle to the right I'm changing the opacity setting I can put the opacity just at the very edge of this and if you want to see whether you have opacity then you need to put this over a graphic or in the wrench menu you can turn on the transparency grid and you'll see it's transparent okay I'm just gonna go turn my transparency off for a second and if we click back on the shape and change this to a radial gradient then we'll get the same settings but it will be for a radial gradient and now it's actually transparent on both of these sides so let's turn back guy shouldn't it turn that off you can see it's now transparent on both sides notice that the text is not transparent just this rectangular shape is the transparent part of that okay let's go back and just for our purposes turn this back to solid click OK to make it blue all right let's click on the type and look at what we've got here so the exact same alignment tools that we had for the shape master styles which will allow us to apply a master text style and then we have text properties and then the the appearance including the drop shadow which I didn't show you on that one but here we can see we've got a drop shadow when I turn that on we get drop shadow properties on that text the text properties are similar to any other text properties where you can choose any of the fonts that you're using you can quickly filter only the Typekit fonts and choose those you can also set any subsets in that type you can change the overall type size you can change whether it's Center left or right justified and this does depend on when you first click when you click and start typing if it's set to left justify then that will be the left position if you go to Center that's going to be the center position the old legacy title or didn't do this and I never liked it this is performing more like what you would expect in Photoshop Illustrator InDesign After Effects as far as justification goes you'll also notice that we have other justification here and that's if we have multiple lines you can set a tab position too if you want and we don't happen to have any tabs in here right now you can set the overall tracking and this is turned off by default and kerning will only happen if we have our cursor between two characters and now we can change the kerning of that type you can also change the overall letting and the baseline shifting so baseline shifting if I select that letter M I could actually move that letter M independently and then of course we've got the same appearance properties of fill and Stroke and the cool thing about the stroke property is let's go choose some crazy magenta on here I love the stroke will only go behind the text it will not go in front of the fill which makes it much more easy to read and quite legible ok and of course we can turn that property on and off all right we can also add another layer in here in this new layer up here or we can go to the graphics menu and choose new layer and we can choose as I have shown you text and rectangles and lips is but also from a file so if I choose from a file sky and clouds so this is a video layer that I'm bringing in and you can see we've got corners where we can resize this I don't have to hold the shift key when I'm resizing this it keeps it proportionate and I can position this where I want to so let me put it above the shape and I get fewer controls over here I don't I can't put a drop shadow on here but I can control all of these settings if I turn off scale lock then I can scale this differently than the rest and place that over top of that I could select these two here and I can use my alignment tools now to align these in the center align these on the center go back and choose my clouds and turn the opacity now so now I've got these clouds over top of the rectangle and below the type so that's my new title if I wanted to I could right click on that and export that as a motion graphics template alright so there you go we created our own very simple basic title I want to explore snapping and aligning because this as I mentioned is really important and powerful especially if we've got multiple objects so let's get rid of this guy here I want you to notice that when I get rid of this title and deleted the graphic the motion graphics template does not get deleted down in the timeline so I could continue to add to this if I want so I want to show you how I can create I'm going to take three shapes here I'm going to go back and turn off my Transparency grid with multiple objects selected and I'm just clicking and dragging I can move these objects now and you'll notice that my alignment tools I can align these the to the top so when I click on this they align across the top of all three if I line them on the bottom or align them in the center the same over here if I've got three objects like this I can align them to the left-hand side I can align them to the right I can align them to the center this is no different than working with multiple objects in any other Adobe program let me show you one thing that will probably confuse you and that's working with groups if you select these if we resize them they'll resize independently they're not scaling based on that anchor point and the anchor point is a sticky setting meaning that it's always going to be there photoshop's anchor point resets every time you finish a transform so if you've scaled something from the top left-hand corner the next time you click on something that transform point is back in the center in Premiere Pro and in after-effects that anchor point is animatable and keyframe bobble and it's set in one position by default it's in the top left hand if you drag it down into the middle you can reset that into the center if it's still over there on the left hand side and we do something like rotate it's going to rotate around that middle point you can also put all of the anchor points into the same point so I'm going to drag my anchor point down here for that one for this one I'll drag that down here so when I select this they're all sharing the same middle anchor point they're rotating on the center if you do want to resize these as a group you can select them and use this scale property now they'll resize as if they're a group and that's different from just dragging the hand and changing the path information there's one last setting in here and that's the distribute vertically and distribute horizontally which I think are really really powerful so let me get rid of this and let's say you wanted to create some kind of a shape where you're creating a design based on a bunch of these shapes here now you can't option or alt drag this you can right-click on the shape and duplicate it over here and I'm going to move my shape over here I'm going to select two of them duplicate them I want to move these evenly to the right the second after you begin dragging if you add the shift key you're going to constrain these to a horizontal movement if you did it vertically then you're you're constraining these vertical it's just much easier to do that rather than trying to eyeball it I'm gonna select these and duplicate those okay now let's say you wanted to have all of these objects evenly spaced across horizontally select all the shapes and that's what this button does here boom yay and the same thing for doing these vertically I'm just going to delete some of these if you wanted them if you wanted them distributed vertically okay so that's the alignment tools let's talk about snapping I showed you a little bit of snapping and what's really good about Premiere Pro is they borrowed the snapping from After Effects so let me duplicate this guy here and place him here so with that snap graphics turned on if I click on the upper left-hand area if I go too far I'm gonna resize this and that's not what I want I'm gonna click near the edge and you'll see that point turns red that's the snapping point now I'm snapping along that line or I'm snapping right on that point or I can snap it to the center or I can snap it on to the side this makes it very easy to snap those graphics so if you wanted to create two shapes here and you wanted them to be aligned you can snap that there now those two are aligned if you zoom in to these which I know you will actually it's a good way of working what you might find is that they look a little bit soft remember when I first clicked on a graphic and it made it the shape of the object it set the resolution for the mo Girt to be the resolution of the sequence I made it in an HD sequence so it's an HD sequence I can scale any of the objects I create perfectly in clean and crisp if I use the scale properties for each of these objects so let me show you what I mean I'll do it with an ellipse so if I choose the ellipse and scale that up it's going to have beautiful smooth edges and be crisp and clear all the time if I go to the motion settings and scale it up here you'll see that Telltale's horrible scaling that you see in Photoshop when you scale something up too much so that's your first rule I never scale anything up with the motion scale tool on a Mogan I will scale it down so if we go back to 100% and if I scale this down that's no problem this is useful if you've got an incredibly complex title and you want to scale the whole thing at once maybe you're scaling it down to zip out of the screen at the very end and you've got ten things that all have scale properties Oh you can just use this scale property and I I will get to the animation in the next tutorial okay so that's creating basic objects now let's create something on top of let's create a title here so I'm going to create a lower third for these cyclists drag that out and instead of dragging out another one I'm just going to duplicate that and you can rename these so that one I'm going to rename and call that main shape and this one which I'll drag down below bottom shape I've got two shapes here I'll just change this top one you'll notice that you do get handles too to move in and change this left and right and not just up and down so the center handles help alright I'll click and choose insert name I'm not worried about where this is right now because I'll change this after I make this okay I'm going to check this one down a little bit okay it makes sense sometimes if you want to to change the zoom value to work on this or on North American keyboards there's a maximize the tilde key and this is a way that I like to work it zooms everything in a little bit more you know what I inverted these nope no problem I actually wanted this down here okay all right okay so here's the lower third that I'm going to use for three cyclists very very simple let me just okay we got the drop shadow up okay so I'm going to use this for three cyclists and before I copy this multiple times I'm going to show you something called responsive design okay responsive design will help you create titles where the underlying graphic will change based on another object so typically as you're typing a name the graphic will will get longer behind it the bar will get longer I'll show you how to set that up okay so here is our main shape and here is the insert name text if you select main shape and choose insert name you can choose where that is pinned so I'm going to pin it to the left and to the right of the text so as the text grows that shape behind it will also grow I'm going to do the same to the bottom I'll pin that to country left and right okay so let's save this as a motion graphics template I'm going to stick it in my mo Gertz library and I can even delete that one out of here there it is I'll drag that out I'm going to insert name double click and as I type that name the graphic changes country I'm gonna duplicate this by holding the Alt key on Windows the option key on Mac and drag it up now you can't see it because it's right over top so just for demonstration purposes I'm going to move it to the side and I'll do that one more time just so we can see three different examples okay so for the second lower third and you can see it grows got to support the Canadians and last we started with nothing we created lower third that resizes itself based on the text well what happens if you wanted to change the the text type the font the style the color do you have to do that three times no you know let's go back to the first one over here and create a master text style so if you twirl this down you'll see the ability to create a master textile and I've also got one here so I'm going to choose create a master text style cyclists name and you'll see these arrows show up right now they're gray because we haven't made any changes I'm going to click in the fill and change this color click OK and you see it shows up over there we now get the ability to sync from the master or push to the master sync from the master means whatever I just did it's going to remove it and go back to the last one that's saved but I actually want to update the master so I'm going to push it to the master so now if we go back over to these other texts so I'll select this one and choose the same cyclist name and you can see it changes go back to axle and choose the cyclist name if I want to go and change this again let's try something very different let's get really green and remember it doesn't automatically change until I push those changes and now you see it updates on each one of those so that's a very quick and easy way to update all of your lower thirds wherever they are I mean in our case I've placed three of them side by side so you can see them but if these lower thirds were throughout a whole 90 minute documentary you've just changed each one of them there is no master style yet for graphics the graphics do have to be updated in each one so that's a bit of a trade-off now I do want to show you that if we bring in a Photoshop file so I'm going to bring this in I'm going to make sure this is selected if this is not selected and I choose to bring this in it'll bring it in in a brand new motion graphics template so I'm going to choose from file so this is a globe I'm wringing this in and it's made up of three different layers and this is the typical Photoshop import dialog box if you leave it on merge it'll bring our graphic in we can place this wherever we want if you try to bring this in in separate pieces and choose individual layers you're going to get an error that it won't work if you want to bring all these three Photoshop files together in one motion graphics template you have to do it multiple times so I'll choose the global I'll go to merged layers and choose one layer I'll go back merge layers I'll get the middle layer merge layers so now I've got all three separate parts that I can animate so just in case if you were wondering on how to bring in a Photoshop file that way now the other one I haven't really touched on is the pen tool I want to show you drawing with the pen tool first of all I'm gonna grab a new black video layer I'm gonna drop that black video layer here I'll go to my effects and I'll drop in a grid and in the grid settings I'll change this to width and height sliders I'll type in 60 60 and 1 this creates a nice grid that's easy to draw on I'm gonna grab my pen tool and I'm going to tap the tilde key to make this larger I wanted to show you how you can use the grid to snap I'm gonna start right at a corner and drag this out so the handles meet I can't hold the shift key down there's no shift constrain so I'll click and drag an eyeball that I'll go to the opposite corner here and drag that out again an equal amount follow that line down here drag that out an equal amount go over to that side follow that line here and I'm going to go one in so that's there I'm gonna go one in and align it down there and of course if you get this wrong you can move it after you've started drawing it and finish up and you have to go back over the first one see that little circle that means I'm joining that one in there oh and I actually drew that one in the wrong place so let me pull that back over there okay and you can I'm you still using the pen tool I'm not using the arrow tool to tweak these sizes so now if I tap the V key I'll get the move tool and I've drawn a rounded rectangle I just thought you might like to to know how to do that now I can scale that position this wherever I want I would actually right click on this and export this as a template and then I would save this and just call this rounded rectangle so I don't have to do this anymore last thing I want to show you about drawing is how about combining different shapes from different mogar's I've drawn a an arrow because there's no arrow drawing tool I don't how about if I want to combine the arrow tool with this rounded rectangle so I'll go back to my mo Gertz and find my arrow tool I'm going to go back to my video revealed full and there's an arrow that I drew I can't copy this and paste it into this existing mo Girt I have to drag the arrow out as its own mo Girt but when I do that I can select the arrow copy it and actually delete this go back and select the the rectangle and paste that in here now I can select both of these shapes click on the fill and make them both the same this will give you the impression that the rectangle and the arrow are together in one and you could even animate this which I've done before I've actually had this animate and grow outside which I'll show you in another tutorial last few things I want to show you is where smart quotes are smart quotes are in the flyout menu of central graphics case you need that so if you were typing with quotes so this is with it on this is on I'll go turn it off this is off and you'll see the difference between not smart quotes and smart quotes I have a pet peeve on this when you turn it off they're not quotes they're inches marks and this is incorrect please don't try to debate this in comments it's it's not a matter of debate it's an incorrect typesetting all right so I've been clicking with the the type tool if I click and drag with the type tool will create a text box this is a bunch of type inside a text box that can be resized and I'll select that and copy it and paste it what I want to show you is that that is letting is global so if I had a so if I made this main title here bold and bigger and I wanted the letting to be different here I want that to be lower I can't the letting will change everything I want to point that out so that you're not fighting with that she come from proper typesetting you would have a different letting value after a larger bit of type based on the smaller type you could separate those into two the main title and the body text last thing I want to show you is the stroke size changes if you change the shape so this is the path information that I'm changing this is the scale information that I'm changing so you see as I scale that it changes when I change the shape the stroke size stays the same and this this could trip you up if for instance you scaled this different from the top to the bottom so if I'm scaling vertically and I want to boxes I'm trying to build these two boxes you can see that the stroke value along this horizontal edge does not match so it doesn't make sense to do it that way you should change this back to a hundred percent and not use the scale property use the path and resize it that way so that's creating your own motion graphics templates Moe Gertz in Adobe Premiere Pro for some simple stuff as I showed you you create those lower thirds and they grow to any size you can import almost any format that Premiere Pro will accept as a motor and bring in illustrator files Photoshop files as I shown you and create any kind of design or tightly one in the next one we're gonna get into animating all of these and Adobe's constantly updating the whole motion graphics template capability so something that is that I'm showing you that's missing today guaranteed it's going to be coming in the future all 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Length: 41min 37sec (2497 seconds)

Published: Sun May 20 2018