11.3 Make Your Own Templates for the Essential Graphics Panel

[MUSIC] In this lesson, you will learn how to take your essential graphic animation and export it as a motion graphics template. [MUSIC] So you've created a nice little animation here with the essential graphics panel, and you'd like to use this in other projects in the future. So what you can do is export this as a motion graphics template. All you need to do is right-click on your layer and choose Export as Motion Graphics Template. You can also find this up in the menu right here, Export as Motion Graphics Template, and it'll come up with a pop up window. And you can name this. I'm just gonna name this Lower Third, actually, yeah, I'll make it singular Bode Lower Third. I like to put my name on all the ones that I've created, because over here in this Browse menu, you may have noticed that there are a bunch of titles and graphics with very similar names. And when you download maybe a pack of these from Envato Elements, you'll find that a lot of them are named very similar. And so you may have a whole bunch of titles that are named lower third one, lower third two, lower third three, or basic lower third one, basic lower third, two. So I like to give them a unique identifier so that I can just type in my last name, Bode, and all the ones that I created will come up. You can also add keywords down here. I always like to add my name and then lower third. And then in the middle here, we have some compatibility warnings. And you can check these or you can leave them unchecked. Basically, it's asking if you want a warning if this template uses fonts that are not available on Adobe fonts. And warn me if this graphics template uses any effects not included with Premiere Pro. So if you're using any third party effects from something like Red Giant Universe, that would give you a warning. And finally, warn me if this motion graphics template is not compatible with Premiere Rush. Actually, I'm not so concerned about Premiere Rush because that's not something that I use all the time, but maybe you do, so you may want to have that checked. We have an option here to include a video thumbnail, and where do we want to put this here? If you put it in the local templates folder, it should auto populate in the Browse tab of the essential graphics panel here. That is the main place where you install motion graphics templates. So I will install this here. And I'll click OK. It's gonna go and export that. And then if I look over here and I search under my name, Bode, boom, check that out. Right here, Bode lower third rift. That's the one that I just created. And so I can now pull that into my project here. And I can update this text, With something different. And it works exactly as expected. So it's really quite simple to do. Coming up in the next lesson, I'm gonna show you how to use and install some of these third party templates you can find on Envato Elements. So check that out, coming up next. [MUSIC]