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How to make animations with replaceable images
In Adobe After Effects, you have the ability to create Motion Graphic Templates also known as mogrts. These templates can have adjustable elements such as text, color, size and even images.
In this example I’m creating a mogrt with an image of none other than the great YouTuber Premiere Gal.
To create your animation, you need to have the “Essential Graphics” window open. If it’s not open, find it under “Window” and “Essential Graphics”. Then, go to “Primary” and pick the Composition you want to save as a mogrt.
Then, just drag and drop the properties you want to adjust, from the composition into the “Essential Graphics” window. For images, you can just drag the image layer itself.
To know what properties you can add to your mogrt, just click “Solo Supported Properties” and everything you can see now in the “Composition” window that has a stopwatch next to it are properties you can add.
Now, click export, choose “Local Drive” if you want to have a physical file that you can move and share with others, pick a destination and then click OK.
In the next tutorial, you can see how you can import this into Premiere Pro and easily replace the image AND adjust the properties.
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