Learn how to animate reusable motion graphic templates in Adobe After Effects to customize in your Premiere Pro video projects.

If you create video content of any kind, chances are you’ve needed to overlay graphics or text onto your footage. Doing this manually for multiple versions, can get tedious and time-consuming, especially if you have to adjust the animation each time.

Turing these animated graphics into motion graphic templates (.mogrts), can save countless hours of work.

Adding custom motion graphics to your videos isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s a way to deliver extra information and make your content stand out. While it’s easy to buy pre-made mogrts, creating your own allows you to add a personal touch or align them with your branding. You can even share or sell your templates!

In this class, you’ll learn how to create 5 motion graphic templates:

You’ll learn how to:

Create basic graphics with shape tools
Set keyframes and animate transform properties like position, scale, rotation, and opacity
Animate text with simple text animators
Maintain the stroke weight of a graphic when it’s scale changes
Create mattes to control where a layer is visible
Use Null Objects as controllers
Use the Essential Graphics panel in After Effects
Set up and connect expression controllers
Create text that automatically centers whether there’s one line or two
Use expressions to make a text box and a line automatically resize based on the content
Create a template with selectable icons and text
Create an animated graphic with a movable pointer
Set up templates that can be re-timed in Premiere Pro (Responsive Design - Time)
Customize motion graphic templates in Premiere Pro
And much more!

If you're ready to create your own unique motion graphics templates and streamline your workflow, let’s get started.

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What's included

100% Self-Paced

Pre-recorded videos allow you to play, pause, and practice at your own pace.

15 lessons (2h 17m)

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Welcome
What to Expect + Class Project
Tour of After Effects

Create Motion Graphic Templates

Create Title Card
Template Title Card
Create Lower Third
Template Lower Third
Animate Bloom Time Indicator
Template Bloom Time Indicator
Animate Plant Facts
Template Plant Facts
Animate Pollinator Pointer
Template Pollinator Pointer

Wrap-Up

Putting it all Together
What's Next

Also included:

After Effects Project File

Includes graphics for the Bloom Time Indicator, Plant Facts, and Pollinator Pointer

Text Animator Preset

Random Fill & Stroke Effect

Who this class is for

Before taking this class, you should have a basic understanding of how to edit videos in Premiere Pro. This class is designed for video editors who want to efficiently add custom motion graphics to their projects, even if you’ve never opened After Effects before.

While we’ll explore advanced topics like the Essential Graphics panel and expressions, I’ll guide you through every step so you can recreate the examples. Expect to be challenged but guided.

You’ll need After Effects version 14.2 (released in 2017), or newer, in order to make .mogrts.

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What you'll need

Successfully completing this class requires a computer or laptop with:

Adobe

After Effects

Adobe

Premiere Pro

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What students are saying

Very helpful course and great to have pre-made assets to practice with. Excited to start bringing in my own iconography and to use the skills learnt on this course to create more reusable templates.

Gemma P.