Guys in this lecture we are going to create a motion graphics template for these simple lower third
here.
It is simple and easy so we can make our explosion simple and easy.
Also the colors are a bit odd.
So you can change them to what you want.
Using the template itself what's a motion graphics template before we start a motion graphics template
according to other and according to aftereffects is in animation where you keep the animation but you
can change certain properties such as the content of the text the color of the feel the stroke width
and color and even the opacity if you'd like to.
You could come to the window here and open essential graphics.
That's one way to do it.
But my favorite way is to come to the composition inside the project panel right click and say open
essential graphics on the essential graphics should open over here or somewhere else.
If you change it and you are now ready to start adding certain properties that will form the template
and later on you can export them to other programs where you will change these properties.
Now you notice here in the essential graphics there is the name.
This will be the name of the motion graphics template and it will be used to write your template on
your storage media or your hard disk.
So you usually give it a good name don't give it a CD right here.
Lower Third from a e.
Not very descriptive about the lower third but it will help us when we go to premiere.
None of it is here.
That is the master because I right click on the lower third.
It has opened the master over here.
The master is the composition for which you are creating the template if I click.
I could have chosen news.
Now we can create a template for a lower third and another one for the news composition.
Now what are the properties.
I can drop here to create my motion graphics template you have here solo supported properties.
Very useful.
But if I click here I will be swallowing whatever is inside news.
So make sure you choose your right composition.
Here you are.
So we are choosing lower third.
And then we click on solo supported properties and you notice how many properties you can just click
and drag and drop them inside your template.
There are not very many by the way.
If you look at them you have the roundness of a shape and you don't have the size and sort of the shape
you have the stroke the feel the transform rectangle one you have skew and opacity and you have transform
only opacity over here from the layer.
You cannot use scale rotation and position in the text you not only have the source text and were already
animated the opacity so we only have the source text.
Let's drill down and start dropping.
Now I will take the source text which we know is the content of the text.
We click and drag and drop it inside the panel itself.
It creates here the name of the property and its content for text of course.
So you don't want to call it source text when you are giving this to somebody normal meaning it doesn't
work on after effects.
You might want to put for example input text.
Now the last minute news here we cannot change it.
This is the content.
If I change it over here it's going to change over here.
I was show this little fact now from the bars here.
We have several options.
Let's roll Landesman up to see more we can take for example the roundness but we don't need it.
Our guest now.
You can take the stroke color.
Well that will be interesting if I click on color and wrap it up.
It says only color and I have no clue what color is it for.
Is it for the stroke or whatever.
So maybe we give it a good name called stroke color that will make more sense.
Right.
You can also choose the opacity of the stroke which is not necessary or the stroke width because we
can put it at zero.
So let's take stroke with it and drop it in and it's written nicely stroke meets.
Now let's go to Phil if you would like you can use the color of the fill and the opacity are pretty
nice.
Now it's getting mixed up a bit.
It's better to add a comment to separate them.
We are going to add some properties for the lower but not the same color is not very descriptive.
Maybe we add in the beginning background color then we add a command to separate say here top bar and
we put a certain comment here.
Change Carlos for example you can make it more descriptive later.
Then I would click on the top button and just drag it under the text so I know now all these are for
the tab but if I create another comment I would say lower bar and then over here I would say change
colors and of course I did two spelling mistakes.
This is me.
I always do that.
And then I come over here and she's just one just to make it nice for you guys but not in the lower
back here.
Let's go to the lower bar and decide first of all we need the color.
Just take it and drop it.
This is of course the color of the field.
Maybe we drop the opacity also.
Now we don't have much space so let's take this one down.
And I guess for our example it's very OK.
So I will take the command and just drop it on top.
So we created the template now and we can start playing with these values if we are in aftereffect or
in Premiere Pro in the next lecture we see how to play with the values.
I'm sure you already playing with them.
Thank you for listening.
I'll see you in the next lecture.