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Creating After Effects Templates

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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