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As of After Effects version 14.2, you can build custom controls for your motion graphics in After Effects, then export them as Motion Graphics templates designed to be used and easily customized by Premiere Pro editors. Motion Graphics templates support more control types than Live Text Templates, allowing more customization directly in Premiere Pro.

To learn more about creating Motion Graphics templates with custom controls in After Effects, see Create Motion Graphics templates in After Effects.

To learn more about using and customizing Motion Graphics templates in Premiere Pro, see Using Motion Graphics templates in Premiere Pro.

Live Text Templates allow you to edit text layers of dynamically linked After Effects compositions directly in Premiere Pro.

Editing text in a Live Text template

Important: To use Live Text templates in Premiere Pro, you require the 2014 release of After Effects CC installed on your computer.

You can use Live Text templates in any number of Premiere Pro projects and sequences. Any changes you make to the template file are propagated to all the projects and sequences that use that template.

The following workflow outlines the steps to create text template compositions in After Effects containing source text that is editable in Premiere Pro.

Create an After Effects composition with one or more text layers.

For more information about creating compositions in After Effects, see Composition basics.

Animate the text and apply any effects as required. For more information on animating text, see Animating text in After Effects.

If you don't want any text layer to be editable in Premiere Pro, click the Lock icon for that layer in the Composition panel.

Note:

When a layer is locked in After Effects, you cannot select it in either the Composition or Timeline panels. If you try to select or modify a locked layer, the layer flashes in the Timeline panel.

In the Advanced tab of the Composition Settings dialog box, select Template (Unlocked Text Layers Editable In Premiere Pro).

In Premiere Pro, import the After Effects composition by doing one of the following:

• Use the Media Browser to navigate to the After Effects composition.
  
• Select File > Import and choose the composition to import.

Load the composition in the Source Monitor by selecting Open In Source Monitor from the context menu.

The Effect Controls panel in Premiere Pro displays the editable text templates. Each line of text in the After Effects composition is seen as a separate line of editable text in Premiere Pro.

When there are multiple lines of editable text, extra blank text boxes are displayed to let you manage line breaks and the text placement effectively.

Multi-line text template displayed in the Effect Controls panel




Edit the source text items as required in the Effect Controls panel. You notice that the changes are automatically reflected in the imported composition without having to go into After Effects using Dynamic Link.

Important notes

• Any changes you make to the text layers in Premiere Pro are stored in the Premiere Pro project and do not affect the original material in After Effects. Thus, preserving the unaltered template state of the original composition in After Effects.
  
• If you modify the source text of a text layer in After Effects after changing the corresponding text in Premiere Pro, the changes are not reflected in Premiere Pro.
• If the imported After Effects composition has been edited into a sequence, the Effect Controls panel does not display the editable text (or any other master clip effects). Use the Match Frame feature to load the master clip into the Source monitor and expose the editable text blocks for revision. Because all changes to the master clip automatically ripple down to the sequence track item instances, any changes are updated in the Program monitor.

When you use Live Text templates for editing animated lower-third graphics created in After Effects, you have to create duplicates of the template.

For example, if you are interviewing multiple subjects, you may need multiple templates with different textual content but the same animated lower-third graphics. You can then create duplicates of the After Effects composition and edit only the textual content while retaining the same animated lower-third graphics.

You can duplicate the imported After Effects composition in the same way as you would duplicate any media or sequence in Premiere Pro. In the Project panel in Premiere Pro, right-click the source item, and select Duplicate from the context menu.

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The duplicated composition is a duplicate of the original After Effects composition that you imported into Premiere Pro. Any textual changes you make to the composition in Premiere Pro are not reflected in the duplicated composition.

In this 10-min tutorial, learn how to import a text motion graphic created in After Effects into a Premiere Pro sequence and make text edits without opening After Effects.

The tutorial provides you sample files to try out the feature for yourself.

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Motion Graphics templates have the creative capabilities of After Effects, but are designed to be used and easily customized by Premiere Pro editors.

Learn how to encapsulate your After Effects project into a Motion Graphics template that can be edited directly in Premiere Pro. Only the controls you expose are available for customization in Premiere Pro, allowing you to retain creative control of your design.

For more information, see Create Motion Graphics templates and Master Properties.

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Adobe Premiere Pro comes with a useful set of resources and tools that users can add to their projects. One tool—Resource Central—gives you access to a variety of free media objects such as templates. These items reside on their Web servers. You don't have to visit the Adobe website to download these items. If you'd like to add fresh new templates to an Adobe Premiere movie, download them right from within Premiere using Resource Central.

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Launch Premiere Pro and open one of your projects. Click the Window menu item at the top of the user interface and then click Resource Central to open the Resource Central panel if you do not see it on the screen. This panel has a set of tabs at the top showing the different types of resources you can download.

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Click the Templates tab. Premiere Pro displays thumbnail images of the templates available for download.

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Click the arrow next to a thumbnail of the template you like to begin the download process. Wait until Premiere displays a check mark at the bottom of the thumbnail you selected.

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Click the thumbnail, hold down your left mouse button and drag the thumbnail to the Project panel to make it available to your project.

Tip

• After downloading one or more templates, drag them into your composition as you would any other items residing in Premiere's Project panel.

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