In this episode I'll introduce you to Live Text Templates in Adobe Premiere Pro.
AdoramaTV presents, Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace
Live text templates were introduced in late 2014, and I think that
they are one the most exciting new features of Adobe Premier Pro CC 2014,
and After Effects, that have come around in a long, long time.
The reason for that is creating lower thirds, and
animated graphics has always been awesome in Adobe After Effects, but the
problem is, if you wanted to create templates with
editable text, well it just was not possible. You had to go back and forth in Premiere Pro
and After Effects, and so
putting in lower thirds, and titled graphics and things for interviews, or live events,
it was just sort of, a pain. But now,
that has all changed. You can now create these really robust
animations in After Effects, and anything that is a text
element, can be directly changed in Premiere Pro.
So we are going to talk about how to create these, it's super easy,
and we are actually going to do two episodes, in the next episode we are going to talk about all the
caveats and things you need to know about
specifically in editing, and setting everything up, and so we are going to take two
episodes to talk about live text templates,
because I think they are sort of awesome. But before we get into all of that, I want to remind you
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Well, without further ado,
let's look and see exactly how you can create live text templates and use them.
We've always been able to create lower thirds and titles
in Premiere Pro by saying, new item, and saying I want a new title here.
The problem with that is there are very limited ability to animate those lower
thirds or titles,
and so we have always trusted on After Effects to do the job for us. Things like this
where we have,
will make this a little bit bigger here, we've got an AdoramaTV
logo swooping in from the top left, we have got this bar that's
coming in from left hand side, and then we have our text animating
in, as we go across the time line we see, here's another bar
coming across, we have got Machu Picchu animating in
in the same way,
and then again down here, when we go to the Galapagos, we've got
AdoramaTV coming in from the top left,
the bar growing across, and again we have got some text that is
animated. Now, the problem with doing this
in After Effects has always been if you want three different lower thirds, or
titles, or whatever animations like this, you
have to create three separate compositions, and either use Adobe Dynamic Link
to keep everything updated, or render everything out every single time,
and that's okay unless you have a problem like this where pelican is
misspelled you have to go back to
Adobe After Effects and fix that. Well now, with Adobe
After Effects CC 2014, and Adobe Premiere Pro
CC 2014, the latest version as of now,
we have text templates. That means that you can create
any kind of animation you want, in Premiere, I mean, in After Effects,
and as long as there's text you can edit that text,
in the effects panel of Premier Pro, and you don't even have to have
After Effects open, so you could have a designer creating your animations,
and an editor using them. So for example here, we have the shy Pelican, it's misspelled,
I go over here my project panel, double-click on that
little animation, and now in the affects control you can see we have title text here.
I can just go around here, and instead of having that
'a', I can delete that make it an 'i',
hit enter, now you can see that that is updated
instantly in my at display, and even
if I scrub through here, you will see that the animation
is also updated instantly, and so that is done using Adobe
Dynamic Link, but we don't have to have After Effects
open for that to all happen, it just sort of, happens in the background, it's really,
really nice,
and so, what we can do here, is we can use the same template
over and over again to create something new.
For example here let me get a new clip here, I'm going to grab,
let's see, we've got this Coati over here, this
Coatie, and I'll throw that on the time line.
Now we've got this little guy right there,
and the thing that we want to do is, we just want to add
a really simple title. So I can go over here my lower thirds,
and I will grab let's say this pelican here.
I'm going to duplicate that, now I'll just really quickly go in here to the affects control,
I will say, the 'Coati',
and then what I have to do here is I'll just drag this
over, throw it on my time line to look at that,
the entire animation comes in, and it's ready to go.
So we can use these templates over and over to create
any kind of titling lower thirds we can have perhaps if you're editing a sporting event,
placement of athletes, you can have winners of contests, you can do all
kinds of things, if you are doing interviews you can have
the names and the interviewee, interviewer, you get the idea.
How do we create these? Well it's all very, very,
very simple, so I'm going to do here, let me get rid of this.
We have a very basic demo time line that I've setup,
it just has footage of Machu Picchu, that's it. So we are going to use that
and premier. First we need to set up our template in After Effects, so I'm going to
open After Effects again, After Effects CC 2014,
the latest version, this is going to open. It's going to ask me to create
a new composition, and so what I'll do here is, I'll say,
new composition, you need to name this something that is meaningful, and you'll
see why a little bit, but I'm going to say
this is 'Big Title', and I'll trust that you know how to set up your
composition basic settings, your presets. The advanced tab
is the key to all this, right down here there's a new checkbox that says 'template',
if you click that, that's all you have to do. Now you've got a template setup,
and now you can go to town. So I'll say ok,
and what we will do here is, I'm just going to grab the text tool,
I'm going to click on my composition, I'm going to say,
'Big, Big Title',
something like that, and then I will
move that over here. Now down here
in my layer name, this needs to be in meaningful name. So instead of just saying
'Big Title', I'm going to call this
'Title', and you'll see why. This is going to
show up in Premiere Pro in a second. The other thing I'm going to do here just to
show you how you can
lock things down, I'm going to say 'This
can't,
be edited'. I do that,
that's so big you can see it, so I will shrink this little bit
in like that.
Now all I'm going to do here is, I'm going to
lock that layer. Alright and we've got 'Big Title'.
The other thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to go over to my affects, I'm just going to
add some kind of animation to this just so we know that something is happening.
So I'm going to use, and animate in,
who knows what it is. I'll just do
fade up words, why not. Fade up words on the title,
and now as we scrub through this you can see that that fades up.
Right nothing fancy, we have just got two white
texts on a template here.
I'm gonna save this project as 'Big Title',
and you would say this is something that was meaningful, you can do multiple
compositions in your project, but whatever this is make sure it's
meaningful because you are going to create a lot of different templates you want to know
how to find it so I'll save that,
and to get this template over to
my project, all I have to do is drag this
over. Now there are a lot of other ways to do this, we are going to get into that next
week, but I'm just going to drag this composition
over into my project
in Premiere, and now I've got this 'Big
Title' template right here,
If I double click on this, you can see in the effects control
I've got 'Title', 'Big Title'. So what I'll do,
I'm just going to drag the video over
on top of, this is sort of a long compositions, so I'll trim that up,
on top of my Machu Picchu footage,
and you can see, there it is. It fades right in just like we wanted,
and I can change this by going over to my project,
double-clicking in the affects control instead a 'Big Title',
I will say, 'Machu Picchu'.
Click, and now it says 'Machu Picchu',
and notice, it fades in and so our animation works just great.
Now the other thing we can do here is, now I can jump back and forth between
After Effects and Premiere, and we can tune this in, so let's say we don't like the
font, so instead of 'Myriad Pro',
I don't know what we will do, I don't know,
'Kokonor', now that's not too big. Do something else here,
there we go, there's a big difference. Now if I save that go back to Premiere,
we will see BAM, thats instantly updated. You can go back and forth and tune this in, and do all
all kinds of,
your animations that you want adding bars in graphics, and spins, and loops, in
3D, in anything you can conceive in After Effects, as long as it has
text you can make that into a
eligible text template you can use over and over Premier.
Now there are a whole bunch of things that you need to be aware of when you
throw those
into Premiere, specifically on how you use them, we are going to get into that in
next week's
episode, because we are out of time for this episode. But remember if you want to
create a nice
text template in Premiere, make sure that when you are doing your composition settings,
that you have that one checkbox checked.
So in the advanced tab, check template,
anything that's unlocked and a text layer can be edited now in Premiere Pro,
anything that is locked can't be edited, but you can do all kinds of stuff,
and your animation, and I'm sure that if you're a graphic designer you can do
some really cool stuff.
Anything you can dream love in Premiere, I mean After Effects, you can make that
into a template as long as it has text.
Alright, next week we are going to show you some tricks on working with these,
because there are some 'gotchas',
and so tune in next week and I'll show you all of that stuff.
Thanks for joining me in this episode, as you can see live text templates are pretty
awesome. Don't forget we have one more episode specifically talking about how
to make sure you set these up correctly for transitions,
and making sure you understand the difference between master clips, and instances, and all kinds
of things, so don't miss out. Also don't miss out,
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and I'll see you again next time.
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