In 2017, the essential graphics panel
was introduced into Premiere Pro it completely changed,
the way that motion design was done in the program, the essential graphics,
the essential graphic, the essential graphics, essential graphics,
the essential graphics, essential graphics essential graphics panel, in Adobe
Premiere is actually pretty useful. Now, for some, it was kind of a sad update
because our RIP to the legacy Titler tool, which, no longer exists. But for others, it propelled
an entire new movement of creativity. It created a new economy,
a new marketplace for creatives to design their own motion graphics
templates, upload them and sell them. And other people can buy them
through the form of what is now called Mogrs, Mogrts, M-O-G-R-T
or mogrts or whatever m-o-g-r-ts A mogrt, which stands for motion
graphics template. So in this video, we're going to do
a deep dive into the essential graphics panel, the ins and outs
of how it works. And then we can decide, is the EGP one of the most innovative
updates in Premiere Pro? Let's get into it. Hey, everyone, Kelsey
here and welcome back to Gal So the Essential Graphics Panel, that's
what we're talking about in today's video, you're going to walk away
learning how to create your own titles, motion graphics templates, some tips
and tricks to make the experience better. And you're going to learn how to import
multiple different packs of Bogota's, let's say, from sites
like Storyblocks, how to customize them and make them your own. And Storyblocks
is the sponsor of today's video. If you're interested
in getting unlimited video assets, you can click my link right down here
and go check out story blocks. I'll tell you more about them later on. But as usual, you will find all of the time codes for this for guide
just down below if you want to review. And let's go ahead and jump on. So the reason why Adobe decided
to get rid of the legacy titler tool and replace it with thes Essential graphics
panel is for two reasons: The first reason is just to make
graphic design motion design easier inside of Premiere Pro. So they took a layered approach
with the new essential graphics panel similar to Photoshop. Now, these central graphics panel
is not nearly as powerful as Photoshop. But the intent is there to make it
just easier, especially for designers coming into Premiere Pro. To understand how the layering works. And the second reason is to bring
in the power in the motion, design an animation from after effects via
the use of motion graphics templates. So motion designers now,
they can create a template and after effects
exported as a mogrt file, and then you can use it inside of Premiere
Pro with these Essential Graphics Panel. So that way you don't have to go back
and forth between the two programs. So those are the two reasons. And now let's see how it works. First, you want to be in Premiere Pro
graphics workspace. This will pull up the essential graphics
panel on the right. And if you still don't see the panel,
you can just go up to a window, Essential Graphics. This toolbar, I recommend moving it over
closer to the essential graphics panel. So that way, it's easier to use. Now, to use these Essential graphics panel,
you need to first create a sequence. So go to file new sequence. And you can choose your dimensions. I'm going to be using 1080p, 24
frames per second. So the good thing about the Essential graphics
panel is all of the text and graphics. They are vector. So it doesn't matter
what the resolution of your sequence is, it's not going to be a rasterize
to that resolution. So you can take the graphics from one
resolution to another resolution sequence. And you can still scale it up
without any pixelation. So going back to the essential graphics here, you see that
there are two main tabs. There's browse and edit. The browser tab is where you'll be able
to see the motion graphics templates that come in Premiere Pro
or Mogrts that you've already imported. And you can see I have a lot of templates
already loaded up here as I scroll down. If you want to import your own, you can
click on the plus icon in the lower right. And later in this video,
I'll show you how to easily import and organize a pack of multiple
mogrts at once. You can purchase,
for example, from Storyblocks to find a particular template. You'll be able to search in this field,
for example, all type out loading screen overlay. This Moggrt should be preloaded
in Premiere Pro for you. But if you don't see it for some reason,
you can download it for free. I'll put a link to it
just down below to edit this mogrt. You can drag it into your timeline. And here in the edit tab,
you'll now be able to customize. So, for example, you can select the
loading bar and you can change the color. So you can just click on the fill and
change it to a yellow color, for example. You might also want to change the text
and double click on the text and type out whatever you want. This particular mockup
was actually designed in Premiere Pro so you can go to effect controls. And here you can actually see the animation keyframes that were designed
for this particular mockup. And you'll also see these white handles
here that hold in and out animations. This enables you to change
the duration of the Mogrt in the timeline and in and out, handle's stay the same. And I'll show you
how to make your own in and out handles later on in this video when I show you
how to make your own template. Another benefit of using Bogaerts design
and Premiere Pro and not after effects is that after you make your customizations,
you can right click on the graphics layer in the timeline and export it
as a new motion graphics template. And you can save it to your library
or the local templates folder, and you'll be able to reuse it
with the new changes that you made. So that's how you use
some of the basic templates. But now let's talk about making your own
Mogrts from scratch in Premiere. Let's delete this mogrt
that we just added to the timeline. And now let's go to the edit tab. You'll see that there are no controls
here, just this new layer icon, which is one way that you can actually
start your own graphic layer with a text layer,
a shape, or you can import a file here. You can import a video,
an image file or Adobe .psd Photoshop file as a background layer,
for example, into this panel. Another way you can add
text is by clicking on the text tool here from the toolbar
or pressing T on your keyboard. And then you can just click on the
program, monitor and type out the text. Then you can use the text controls
to choose your preferred font. I'll choose the Monserrat Black
if you want it to be italic in all caps. Just select these icons
from the Faux styles. And if you're designing a center
main title, you can make sure to center align the text if you want this text
to be exactly in the center of the frame. There are two ways to do it. You can select the vertical center
and horizontal center icons to get it in the center of the frame or from this Renge
Tool dropdown, you can see. Like snap in program monitor. And now when you select the text
and move it around in the program monitor here, you'll get these red snap lines
and it can snap exactly to the center. Some people don't
really like the snap tools because it gets kind of distracting
when you have multiple elements. But it's nice if you're just dealing
with a nice center tool. But you can always turn off the snapping
by using that wrench tool trick. So next, you can see
the appearance section, which enables you to customize the fill stroke
in background in shadow. You can choose a solid color
or you can choose a gradient. For example, a linear gradient and choose
any two colors of your liking. And I won't be using this gradient. So I'm just going to go back to the solid
and I'll keep it for now. But if you want to learn more about
how to use the gradient and creative ways, I actually just made a video
on how to create a retro 80s title text, which you can click right up here to go
watch that video. And for this text,
I'm going to add a background. I'll make it black now,
because we have a default black frame. It's hard to see this black background. So to change that, we can actually go to the wrench tool again
and turn on the transparency grid. So now we can see the graphic better. And now we can increase the background
transparency to 100. So it's completely solid. And I'll also increase the border width. And there's a new slider here
that allows you to create rounded corners. So I'm going to add
some curvature to the corners. You can also add a shadow. But in this case, I'm
not really liking it, so I won't use it. There's also a mask with text icon here. If you're interested in learning
how the Mask with Text works. I made a full video on how to put video
inside of text with this feature. You can watch right up here. So after you've made all these changes,
if you want to save these changes as a particular style,
you can go up here and save it as a master style to use in other designs just by clicking on this dropdown
and create a style. So now let's make some subtitle text
below this text. And when we click again in the program
monitor to type out, you will see it just defaults to the previous font
and settings we chose last time. So I will just type out some subtitle
text, something like Beginner's Guide. And here I'm going to reduce the size down
using the scale control. And here I'm going to change the fill of the fight to be black
in the background, to be yellow. Also, make sure that this text
is center aligned. And then I can move it
into place in the snap. Controls I have on
will tell me if it's aligned. And if you want to make sure it's flush
up to the bottom of the first text, you can zoom in here
with you zoom controls. And then you can get a better view
to see how to align it. And now we can flip it back to frame
before we animate, because we will be turning this
into a motion graphics template. First, I need to show you how to make it responsive
so the different shapes adapt together. For example, if we decide to hit return
and have two lines here in the main title, we want the subtitle
to automatically move down. Right now, it doesn't move. And the main title covers up the subtitle. So this is what I
mean by responsive design. You'll also notice that when I typed out that second line, the background
only fell behind the text per line. It didn't make a full rectangle
if you didn't get a fill per line. You actually need to go to the three line
menu, the little hamburger menu from the central graphics panel
and go to text layer preferences. And here, change it to per line fill. And I personally think that this looks
better than one giant background, which is the default,
but important to note. You'll need to create a new text layer for this new style
change per line to take effect. Another useful tip,
if you select and highlight one word here, you can change the color
of just that word. So if you want to call attention
to one particular word, you can highlight it and change the color. So let me get back
to how to make the design responsive. So here in the essential graphics,
you can see we have two layers. We have the subtitle layer
and we have the main layer. So select the subtitle layer and then go down to the responsive design
position section. And we're going to pin it
to not the video frame, but instead the main text. And then on the right, you're going to
choose which side you want to pin it to. In this case, we just want
to pin it to the bottom. And now you'll see a little blue pin
here in our program monitor. And when we type
in a second line here now, you'll see that the subtitle layer text adapts down
when we add in a new line. It's like they're connected now. Now, it's not required to do auto
responsive pinning, especially if you're to. Making this for yourself because you can
easily use the position controls. But if you're designing mogrts
for somebody else as a designer, you know, you're thinking about the usability of how to use this
to make it auto Adobe to save time. And that's the whole reason
of the Essential graphics. Panel is to save time is kind of the whole theme
behind a lot of the Adobe updates. Is saving time for versus having to do
like quick little edits and moving things. It's just auto doing it for you. Pinning is also useful
when you're adding sheets to your design. So if I go to the rectangle tool
and I click and I create a small little thin white filled line
just below the subtitled text, if I want this line to move and adapt
to the width of the subtitle text , all I need to do
is go to the shape layer. Go down to pinning and choose
my subtitle layer, and I'm going to pin it to the bottom, of course, so
it will adapt down when we add more text. But I also want to pin it
to the left and the right. So that way, if I type in something
new into the subtitle layer, the shape will adapt to the length of that
text, which is really cool. One more thing you can do here,
which is completely optional, is you can add a background video
like a looping animation behind your text on Storyblocks, they have a ton of great
moving video backgrounds. You can try out,
just search for the keyword background in a bunch of options
will come up that you can browse. And what I love about story blocks
is that you can quickly hover over the corner of any video you like
and you can download many different versions of it. For this particular mogrt I'm just going to download
a bunch of these different backgrounds because I'm not sure
which one will look best. And that's what's so great
about the Storyblocks unlimited all access plan
is that you can download as much as you want to test
to see how it looks. Then from the essential graphics
Panel, I'll select the new layer icon and I'll choose file and import
all these video files. And then I can turn the visibility
on and off for each different background to see how it looks. So I think I like the golden particles
in the water the best. And you can always keep these alternatives
here as options later on. But remember, the more video files
or background files that you have here in the essential graphics panel,
when you export them over the larger the file size will be, another thing you can do is try out adding
color change filters or color effects. On top of the background. For example, you can go to effects
and choose any Bluemercury color preset and drag it on
to our graphics layer in the timeline. And then you can move the effect to
just be above the background video layer. And then it will only apply
to the background layer. You can also try out different presets
to see how it looks. If you're not really feeling the presets,
you can also search for an effect called tent
and and on top of the graphics layer. And this will auto
tinted to black and white. So let's move the tent to be just above
the background layer. And instead of black and white, let's change the map
white to any color that you like. For example, we can try purple,
which looks pretty cool. You can also try the same yellow color
as the background. You can choose any color that you like. And at any time,
you can turn this effect off from the essential graphics panel
if you want to see the original. And now let's go on to animating our text. So for the animation,
I want the text to animate up in the center of the frame to just appear
and for the subtitle text below that, just to pop down. And to do that, we're going to be using masking
along with some keyframe animation. And to do the animation,
we'll be using the effect controls to animate the big center text. Let's first identify this text layer
from the essential graphics panel. You'll see the inside
of the effect controls. There's a layer for every layer
that's in the essential graphics. So for the big text layer,
you're going to open up the text layer parameters
to make it slightly up to the center. We need to make a mask. So click on this rectangle tool
and it will create a mask for you that you can then modify. So I'll take each corner at the top corners
and expand it up to the top of the frames and then all align
the bottom of the mask to meet where the end of the big text
and the subtitle text intersect. And I'll also remove the feathering
so that way it's just a clean cut. Now we just need to keyframe
the position of this text to move up. So first, let's move the play head
to around one second. That's when I want the animation to end. And let's press the stopwatch next
to position to activate the key frames. And it will make a keyframe,
then move the play head back to the beginning of the timeline
or the graphic here. And let's move the position down
so it disappears behind this mask. And this is what it looks like now to make it more smooth,
you can right click on the end animation. And from time interpolation,
you can choose is N. And now when we play it
back, it's just more smooth. And of course, you
can move these key frames just by clicking and moving them.
So if you bring them closer together, the animation will be
faster and vice versa. Then for the outro,
let's do the exact same thing. But first, let's go ahead and move
our graphic to be five seconds in the timeline. And don't worry, you can always
extend this out at a later time. And I'll show you how that works. So I'm going to move this play
head to four seconds because we want to capture animation
just to be one second. And let's set the keyframe here
by clicking the stop. And then let's move forward a bit and move
the position down again off the mask. So here's the first animation. And now we need to animate
the lower subtitled text, and we could make another mask. But I'm going to show you another way
which will keyframe the position and the opacity instead. So first, we're going to press the stopwatch next to position
where we want it to end up. And then we can move this tax position up. So it's hidden behind the text. But if we scrub back to the beginning,
you'll see that you still see the subtitle text here.
So this is where we have to animate the. So what we need to do is go to the moment
where we want it to be visible. Hit the stopwatch next to a pacity. Then pull it a few frames to the left
and bring the opacity down to zero. So that way we won't see this layer
in the beginning. You'll also see that there's a line here. It actually moves with the lower tax
because of the opinion that we did. But we still need to add an opacity
animation to the shape, just like we did with the previous text. So here's the intro animation
and then we'll do the same thing to the subtitle text
and shape for the outré animation. As a final touch,
we can also add a slight opacity animation to the background layer
if you want it to fit in. So set the stopwatch. Pull back a few frames, lower
the opacity to zero. And now it fades in nicely. And let's do the same for the outro. Lastly, let's pull this little blue
handle here to encompass the first set of keyframes
and let's do the same to the end. And now we have these animation handles. And when you extend out the graphic
in the timeline, these animation handles
will remain the same. And this is called responsive time, which you will also see in this Essential
Grafphics panel after you click on the layer. And you'll be able
to see the exact duration of the in and out handles here,
and you can modify them here as well. So now that the animation is done
now, let's save it as a motion graphics template, which is the easy part
to save it as a mogrt Go to the layer in the timeline, right
click and select export as a motion graphics template. And you can give it a name and you can save it directly
into your local templates folder. And be sure to include a video thumbnails. You can see what it looks like. And it will take the current frame
in your timeline where the play head is. And by the way, the MOGRT that we designed here
just now is actually free to my patrons. So if you want the full motion
graphics template that I've designed I'll put a link, for example, where you can sign up to become a patron
to get it for free. So what we just did was make a motion
graphics template in Premiere Pro. So when you drag a motion
graphics template that was designed and Premiere Pro
into your timeline, the controls look like the Premiere Pro interface. But you may have dragged in a motion
graphics template that was made an after effects and you'll see
a bunch of different controls. And the reason why it looks different is
because it was designed with the essential graphics panel using expression
controls inside of after effects. And if you're interested in
how to turn your motion designs and after effects into a motion
graphics template, I actually just made
a video on this topic. What you can click right up here to watch that video
and learn how to use expression controls. So now let's talk
about how to add multiple packs of motion graphics templates
that were designed and after effects. So when the essential graphics
panel was first created, you could only import
one Mogador at a time. So if you downloaded a pack of like 100
Magritte's, you'd have to import each one individually,
which was very cumbersome. And it just had folders in the design. I think I'll put up an image here
of the older essential graphics panel. Essentially, when you looked
in the essential graphics panel was just a bunch of folders
and you had to like go into each folder to find the maggert
and there was no search field. And now you can search for your mother
to see a preview of all of them. Another useful thing that you can do is add folders to specific packs
you've downloaded. For example, if you download
a pack of mogrts and you don't want to import them
generally into your local templates folder, you can actually add in a folder
on your computer to the MOGRT path. To do that, you can go to the hamburger
menu and select manage additional folders. And here you can add in a folder of mogrts
you have on your local drive, for example, with the story blocks
unlimited all access plan. You can download as many video templates
as you like to download Premiere Pro motion graphics templates, simply search
under the after effects category. And you can filter
for Premiere Pro templates. And here you will be able to preview
all the templates and can download as many as you like. All of storybooks content is royalty free and demand driven,
and they have more than just templates. Tons of HD and 4k stock
video, sound effects and music with their flexible
subscription options. You can stay on budget and save time. So if you want to try out storyblocks you can go to Storyblocks.com/PremiereGal We help support the channel. So thank you for trying it
out with my link. And here are a few of the mogrt packs
that I actually recommend. There's the slick lower thirds for
Premiere Pro, and it's a brand new pack, which actually includes
the new media replacement feature where you can drag
and drop your own media. There's also the colorful aero pack,
which is nice because it's just one mogrt And it gives you controls to modify the
arrow, the color, the glow in rotation . And there's the smooth quotation
pack useful for when citing sources for news journalism
and social media videos. So once you've downloaded all the packs
you want to your computer, you can create a folder
on your internal drive and you can call it anything you want,
it could be just mogrts and then you can make some folders in here
for each category of the pack, and then you can drag
the downloaded mogrtsts into these folders. It's important to note
that there should be no sub folders inside of these folders,
just them over files. So now when you go to the hamburger
menu and select manage additional folders, you can also add in the folders
that you just made for the story blocks mogrtss you downloaded. And then you can browse
these specific packs by clicking on this local dropdown here, and you'll be able
to select the individual folders. And I find this helps so much
with organization compared to having to remember what that
mogrt was called in using that search. You can just put all of your most use
Magots, into these folders for easy access. But if you're like,
I don't want to use this folder system, I'll just put them all
in my local templates folder. If you ever want to organize
your local templates folder. It's located inside
of Adobe's common folder, which is hidden away
in the library of your computer. So I'll put a screenshot up here
that shows you the exact file directory for both a Mac and a PC of
how to go to that folder. And you can delete Magots from there. You can drag them into a different folder just to keep your central graphics
browse panel a little bit cleaner. I tend to do this like once a year
because I'll end up having mogrts there that I never use,
and it just takes up space. So consider that as another option. So now let me show you
how to customize one of these mogrts we just imported for this demo. I'm going to choose the slick lower third
twenty five and drop it into my timeline from the edit tab. You can adjust the scale
and the position using the X and Y values. I'll scale mine down a bit
and lower it down in the frame. Next is the media. This is the new media replacement feature. So I'll just grab my head shot
and drop it into this placeholder. And then you can adjust the scale and X and Y controls
to change the position in the frame. Next, there's the text one settings. So let's update this text. Let's change it to Premiere gÃ. And here you can also change the fun. And this is a really great update
that happened, I think, about a year ago before you couldn't update the fonts
inside of motion graphics templates. But now you can add that feature when you're designing
the mogrt n after effects. So you can change
the font here if you want to. But I like the Monserrat Block,
so I'm just going to keep it as is. And then for text number two, I'm going to change this as well to something
like Master Trainer for the lower third. And then I'm going to go down to the other
settings to change the color. So I'm going to change
the shape, one color. And this is a tip I recommend everyone
make your own brand color themes. Just go to color.adobe.com and make your own theme. I created my own theme. The Premiere gal theme with the most
is colors that I always use. And then all I need to do is open up
my library panel and double click on the theme. And then I can use Eyedropper Tool
to select the color I want from my theme. And by the way, right now I have no video
behind my motion graphics on Volare one. If you want to see a transparency grid
behind the graphic, just go to the wrench tool
and select transparency grid. And what's great about this
slick lower third pack from Storyblocks is that it
also has responsive time built in. Not all a motion
graphics templates have this. It depends on the designer that made it. So if I extend or shorten the duration of this Mogrt,
the animation remains the same. For a full rex preview of how this looks, just press enter to render this out
and I'll change my playback to fall. And this is what it looks like. So this is great. You customize the motion
graphics template. But what if you want to reuse
all the changes that you made? Like you don't want to have to start from scratch and drag it back
into your timeline each time? Well, unfortunately, you can't just right
click on this motor and export as a new motion graphics template,
which I wish was possible. I wish there was a way to do this. Adobe should add a feature
where you write, click and edit an after effects, because this mogra,
it was designed and after effects, you should just be able to go in and make changes and after effects
because you want to save time. Right. So you don't have to redo
all those changes every time. Yes. Motion graphics templates
save you time because you don't have to do all the amazing animation
that it comes with. But doesn't it make sense to customize it to your brand and then re save it
because you purchase the pack anyway? Why not just have the ability
to save us more time? So there are a couple of workarounds
to this right now. The first method, if you're not going
to make any more changes to this Mokyr you designed it perfectly,
and this is something you're going to be using
in a lot of future videos. You can export it
with the transparency layers. You can go up to file export media
and from the format, you can choose quick time. And from the preset you can choose
Apple Progres four, four, four, four with Alfa and export it. And then you can always say
this on your local drive and import it and stuck it on
top of your video. Another hack. Because this was made it
after effects is a reverse engineering, a reverse engineering
of the mongered itself. So this requires
some zipping and unzipping. So let me show you how this works. Drag your maggert into the timeline. Then you can right click on the mogra
and select reveal and finder. And this will take you
to adopt a graphic file. It's not taking you directly to the motion
in this case, because the mogrt has already been uncompressed
when you drag it in the timeline. So from here, you need to click
and duplicate this aegraphics file. And then on this duplicate file,
replace the .aegraphic file extension with .zip And now you'll have a new zip file. Double click on the zip file
now to uncompress it. And now we have a .zip file,
which is an after effects file. And you can open this up
and after effects. Now an after effects. If it's not already open,
you can go to window a graphics. In here, you will see that
all the parameters were added in here, which are available on Premiere Pro. And you can change them here
so you can update your font in the colors to your branding. And once you've done
all the customization, you can move the play head to the frame. You want to be the preview poster
frame set, poster frame. Then it's for motion graphics template. And you can save this
in your local templates folder or in your library
or just in your local drive. And now when we go back to Premiere Pro, you'll see the new version
is here ready to use. And now it will be faster to use this
because you don't have to go in and modify all the default settings over again,
which is a huge timesaver. So that's all you need to know about this graphics right now
in Premiere Pro. After effects. But of course, if Adobe comes out with new updates, which I'm sure they're
going to do, you know where to find me? I'm probably going to do an update video. But let me know what you think
about the essential graphics panel. Are you going to start designing your own motion
graphics templates in Premiere Pro? Maybe after effects? Or are you going to purchase notecards
to start using in your videos from, let's say, storybooks? Let me know in a comment below. Also, be sure to give this video
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