- Hey, what's up guys? It's Tech Infusion, and today,
I'm going to be walking you through the process of creating
a motion graphic template in After Effects for use
inside of Premiere Pro. Now, Motion Graphics
Templates, otherwise known as MOGRTs, are super helpful,
because to edit them, you don't need to open up After Effects. You can do everything right
inside of Premiere Pro. Let's jump right in. (Electronic sound effects) (gentle, synthesized music) All right, so you'll want to open up the After Effects project you
want to create a MOGRT from. In my case, it's this lower third here. So the idea of creating
one of these templates is so that I'm able to
use this lower third in Premiere, and change
all of the info on it, and yet, not open After
Effects to edit it. As you can see here, this
lower third has this top text for the name of a person or
the title of your project, and then it has this
second line underneath for a subtitle. If you're interested in
learning how to create this lower third, I have
a video that teaches you how to do just that. A link will be in the
video description below. Anyways, to get started making the MOGRT, we'll need to open up the
Essential Graphics window. To do this, just go up to Window and find Essential Graphics, and open it. It will open this panel right here, where you can begin assembling your MOGRT. This top box here will let
you name your template. I'll just name it Lower Third. Now, this drop-down
underneath is where you can select your Master Composition. In my case, it's the
Lower Third composition. This will default to whatever
composition you have open. Now, the idea here is to
add every value you'll want to change later. So, if you want to be
able to change the color of this bar animation, you want to add that
value to the template. We'll do that in just a moment. Now, you can add values by dragging them from your timeline panel
to this open space here in the Essential Graphics window. So, if I just open up my
Title composition here and just drag this text
layer up to the window, you'll see that nothing happens, because the text layer itself
is not an actual value; it's a layer. However, if I twirl down
this property drop-down, and expand the text, and drag the source text value to the
Essential Graphics window, you'll see that it now
let's me change the text of my lower third up here
in the template window. Now, to the left of this,
where it says, Source Text, I can change this title
to make this template more user-friendly, so the user knows exactly what value they're changing. I'll just change this to Main Title. When you add text values to a template, there's a super helpful
feature that will let you choose whether or not you want
the text to be customizable, or if you just want to
leave the style the same, and just change what the text says. I typically like to check
Enable Custom Font Selection, and Enable Font Size Adjustment. That way, once we're editing our template in Premiere, we can still
change the font and sizing to match whatever we're making. Okay, let's go to our subtitle composition and add the source text, just like we did for the main title. Then, I'll just retitle
this section over here, and because we already allowed the size and font selection properties
for our main title, it will automatically
by default enable that for subtitle as well. All that's left now is to
add the color of the bar animation and the width. Let's open up our bar
animation composition. Then, let's drop down
our second shape layer until we get to the color
properties for this layer. Now, just drag the fill adjustment up to the Essential graphics panel. Now, if I go and change the color up here, you'll see that the lower third updates. I'm just gonna name this Control Bar Color to keep things organized. Speaking of organization,
you can add these groups in if you have too
many values to keep track of. So, for example, I could add a group here and call it Text Control,
and drop my main title and subtitle controls under that. And then, I could make another
one called "bar control", and drop this color
adjustment under that as well. Groups are kind of like a folder; they keep things organized. So, let's say we have
a really long subtitle, where the words go off the bar. And, I'll just type something
here that goes off the edge. So, to fix this, we can add a width slider to allow us to control the
width of this lower bar, so that it goes all the
way beneath the text. With our bar animation
composition selected, just right click in the
Effect Controls panel, and add an expression control
called "slider control". What this will do is add an
effect that just has a slider that currently doesn't do anything, but we can use an expression
to link it to a value. So, since we want this
slider to control the scaled width of the bar, let's just
open up to the scale property of our bar animation. Here, you'll want to just
press this chain icon, which unlinks this X
and Y scale parameter. With them now unlinked, hold down Option or Alt on your
keyboard, and then press this stopwatch icon next to scale. This will let you input an expression. Just copy and paste this expression that I have in the description, and paste it in this expression box here. What this code is telling
the software to do is to assign the slider
effect directly to just the X value under scale. Now, if we wanted the slider to control both the X and Y scale properties, we wouldn't need to do
a custom expression, you could just pick with
the scale to the slider. However, since we're just
wanting to scale the width, we'll need to use this expression. Once this expression is added, let's just drag this slider
value from our timeline panel over to our template. You'll see here that it gets added. I'll rename this to Bar Width, and drag this into the bar control group. Next, click Edit Range, and here, you'll want to
set the range according to what you need. For example, I can say I
only want the bar to be able to scale up to 250% of
its current size and only go down to 50% instead of 0%. Now that this is set,
when I use the slider, you can see that it goes down to 50%, and then maxes out at 250%. So as you can see, with
this bar width control, I can now lengthen the
bar to the perfect width to fix my text. All right, so I think that's
all the parameters we want to add to our template. Of course, if you have more parameters, you can always keep going
and add as many as you want. But now that we're finished,
let's just hit this Export Motion Graphics Template button, and if you haven't already
saved your project, it'll prompt you to do that now. Now, it'll open up this window
where you can change some export settings. I'll choose a local drive destination, and just click on Browse to
place it in the folder I want. If you didn't name your template earlier, you can do so here as well. Ill just save it in this folder. Then, under Compatibility,
it's asking whether or not you want to be warned if
certain conditions aren't met. Since I have enabled the
user to change the font, Ill just uncheck this first
warning box about fonts, but I would like to know
if someone will need to install After Effects
to use this template. So, once you get those set, just hit OK. It'll export to that folder you chose, and now lets open up Premiere Pro. Okay, so once you're in Premiere, go up to Window and
select Essential Graphics. This will open up a window
to the right in Premiere with a whole bunch of default templates. It's time to add ours now. Click on this little
icon in the bottom right to add your own template file. Then, just select the MOGRT
file that you exported earlier. Then, you'll just want to find
the template in this list. I'm just going to search for Lower Third. Just drag the template into
your Premiere Pro timeline, and wait for it to load. Now, when I click on the
template in my timeline, you'll see that all the parameters we set up in After Effects
now show up on the right in the Essential Graphics window. Just change everything
to your desired look, and you're done. Now you can just use this
template for every project without needing to open up After Effects and deal with crazy long
dynamic link render times. Anyways guys, that's all for this video. If you found it helpful, please remember to leave a like, and
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