If you're happiest when up-scaling furniture, tiling a bathroom, or making something brilliant out of nothing, then you probably enjoy sharing those talents and helping other people to do what you do! Making a 'how to,' craft or DIY video is the perfect way to share your skills, so we've put together some of our favourite templates to help you do it with style.
5 Top After Effects Templates for DIY and Craft Videos
All of our selections are available from Envato Elements where everything is included in the cost of a monthly subscription.
Featured After Effects Template for DIY and Craft Videos
Gardening & Landscaping Intro TV Show
A Full HD After Effects template for a TV show.
Key Features
This is made for a gardening show, but would suit any 'tips' style broadcast if you added your own elements. This template though, features a variety of plants and tools.
- Application: After Effects CS4+
- Plugins: None required
- Author: steve314
Alternative DIY and How-To Templates for AE
Our featured template not quite what you're after? No problem, why don't you check out some of our Envato Elements alternatives.
1. DIY Creative Logo
This After Effects template is fun and geeky! A hand pulls a string to activate gears, gadgets and other technical bobbins, to reveal your logo in style. This would be perfect for a YouTube channel dedicated to craft or DIY content.
2. How To - Step by Step Guide
If you make demonstration or ‘how to’ videos, you’ll love this opener template. It lets you create a handy step-by-step guide, with a simple and imaginative design. You don’t need any plugins to use this and the expressions are universal.
Top 5 After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts.
Need to speed up your workflow in Adobe After Effects? Want to know the secrets of the pros? After Effects keyboard shortcuts! In this After Effects tutorial, Tom will take you through the top 5 After Effects shortcuts to speed up your workflow.
4. Article to Video - Complete Setup
This template would make an excellent 'how to' or explainer video. It includes vertical options so it's perfect for all your social media channels. It's east to customise and includes up to 50 scenes and 150 resizable title boxes.
5. Step by Step Guide - How to Buy
Create a step by step guide with this how to After Effects template. It would work well with digital steps, like demonstrating an app, demo-ing a business product, or even making a simple tutorial.
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About This Page
How We Picked
We looked at projects and considered all kinds of variables, including organization, complexity, experience required and overall difficulty, minimum hardware specifications, included versions and options, formats, resolution, file size, dependencies and required plug-ins (if any), language options, software versions supported, style, design, and cost. You can read more about how we select items at How We Pick Templates to Feature on Envato Tuts+.
About The Authors
This page was edited by Jackson Couse. It was written and updated by Marie Gardiner.
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