After Effects Guru: Effects and Preset Management

Learn how to automate your motion graphics workflow—and package your designs for distribution—by building projects procedurally through After Effects templates.

Introduction

• The importance of procedural graphics
• What you should know

1. After Effects Template Essentials

• What is a .mogrt file?
• Previsualizing a template
• Organize your AE project
• Work in the Essential Graphics panel
• Reveal and add supported parameters
• Linking parameters
• Expressions you need to know for templates
• Keep animations safe with protected regions
• Export and test motion graphic templates
• Notes for selling your template

2. Create an Animated Muti-Title Template

• Choose a color theme with Adobe Color
• Select a typeface from Adobe Fonts
• Create a title animation
• Troubleshoot and link source text layers
• Create the final animation
• Choose which parameters to send
• Create a drop-down menu
• CSV files and templates
• Export the motion graphics template
• Submit templates to Adobe Stock

Conclusion

• Next steps