You’ve added properties to the Essential Graphics panel, renamed them to make sense to an editor in Adobe Premiere Pro, and tested their effects. Now you’re ready to export the template so that your colleagues can use it. You can share it through a Creative Cloud library or save it to a local drive as a Motion Graphics template (.mogrt) file to distribute yourself. The template includes all the source images, videos, and properties.
Tip
If you don’t have the original project file available, you can open a .mogrt file as a project file in After Effects. When you select the .mogrt file in the Open Project dialog box, you’ll be prompted to select a folder for the extracted files. After Effects extracts the components and re-creates the project file.
- Click Export Motion Graphics Template in the Essential Graphics panel.
- In the Export As Motion Graphics Template dialog box, make sure Local Templates Folder is selected, and click OK.
By default, Premiere Pro looks for Motion Graphics templates in the Motion Graphics Templates folder on your local computer. However, you can choose to save the template to a different folder on your computer or to a Creative Cloud library, which you can access from other devices.
- Choose File > Save, and then close the project.
Creating essential properties
The Essential Graphics panel lets you create Motion Graphics templates. However, you can also use it to create essential properties, which give you access to specific properties within nested compositions. Using essential properties, you can retain quick access to properties you need to edit frequently without having to open the nested composition and find the properties for a specific layer.
To specify essential properties, open the nested composition. In the Essential Graphics panel, choose the nested composition from the Primary menu. Then drag properties from layers in the composition to the Essential Graphics panel. You can rename them and group them just as you do when creating a template.
To use the essential properties, just select the nested composition in the Timeline panel, and then make changes to the Essential Properties section of the Properties panel.
