After Effects Guru: Templates for Premiere Pro and After Effects

Learn how to work with and create After Effects text templates that you can then modify in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Working with AE Text Templates

• Adjusting AE text templates in Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Downloading templates from Adobe Stock
• Adjusting parameters from stock templates in Premiere
• Creating a text template composition: Part 1
• Creating a text template composition: Part 2
• Adding shapes and expressions to the text animation
• Making video placeholders to adjust in Premiere Pro
• Text templates vs. Essential Graphics
• Building a template through Essential Graphics, part 1
• Building a template through Essential Graphics, part 2
• Adding supported properties to the Essential Graphics panel
• Viewing the motion graphics template in Premiere Pro

2. Breaking Down a Complex Template

• Understanding composition structure
• Modifying text and replacing visible graphics
• Adjusting global controls
• Tweaking the animation

3. Building a Photo Mosaic

• Breaking down your template idea
• Building a mosaic with native tools
• Building a photo mosaic with Divide and Corner
• Designing a photo grid with Layers2Grid
• Setting up additional compositions
• Creating basic animation
• Adding a camera to the animation
• Cleaning up your project

Conclusion

• Goodbye