In this episode we'll talk more about using live text templates in Adobe Premiere Pro,
and After Effects.
AdoramaTV presents,
Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace.
Hi everybody welcome to another episode of Exploring Photography, right here
on AdoramaTV. Well we are continuing our two-part
series on live text templates in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro.
It's the feature that allows you to create really robust animations in After Effects,
with text and then you can update that text straight in Adobe Premiere without ever
having to do a round trip it's pretty
awesome. Well there are some caveats though to using goes life text templates,
specifically things about how to set them up for
transitions and things like that, making sure you understand the
difference between
master clip, and instances on the time line.
We are going to go through all of that stuff so that you know how to use these to the best
of your advantage. But before we do that I want to remind you that Adorama has some terrific
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and enter the contest today. Well, without further ado, let's jump in and learn more
about the features
of live text templates in Adobe After Effects, and Premiere Pro.
Let's begin by talking about how to import our live text template
from After Effects, into Premiere Pro. There are three ways that you can do
this, at least three ways.
The first is just to drag and drop your composition from
After Effects into Premiere Pro, I showed you that last week, the second way is to
do it the
old fashion way like we do everything, just right click
in our project and say import,
navigate to your template and then just
import it. There is another way that I like to do it, I like
to import these, let's use the media browser.
The nice thing about the media browser, is that you can double-click
and you can see a preview of what your
live text template will look like before you import it. So I can
like at this lower third, 'Exif' data,
I can see that this is going to give me some
'Exif' data here, if I look at my control, affects control I can see
exactly what I can edit. I like that, but this
is not in Premiere yet. I need to right click,
and then say 'Import', and once that is imported,
what I can do is I can go to my project, if I have something, let's say in
'Image' which is what this was made for. So there is my Pelican,
and I can take my lower third here, go to my affects control, and I can change my
text so that it reflects
how I shot this image. Now, I don't know what the actual shutter speed and all
that kinda stuff is for this
image, so I'm just making some stuff up. Once I get that
set, I can drag that over, and now I have got a nice lower third,
it shows all the 'Exif' data for this image. This 'Exif' data is not right,
so, don't pay much attention to that! Alright, so that is how you
import your templates. Let's talk about some of the 'gotchas' though.
The first is you need to understand the difference between a master clip,
and a clip on the time line, they are not the same.
Let me give you an example of this. So on our time line here we have
our Pelican, we have Machu Picchu, and we have our
Blue-Footed Boobies. Now, what I want to do is put a
lower third each of these to label them. So what I'll do here
is I will go to my lower thirds, and I am going to get my
lower third black master template, and this allows me to change this
text down here so what I will do is,
I'm going to go into my affects control,
change this from Mark Wallace, to
the Pelican. Okay, I've got that,
what I'll do is, I'll set an outpoint, right there.
I'm just going to drag this in, now put that
about right there. Okay, so we have the Pelican,
now we want to do is add one for Machu Picchu.
Well if I go in here, and try to drag the same thing in, so here we go,
we will drag that in, it says the Pelican.
That's not right, if I click on the clip
in the time line, double click on that
and go to the effects control. These are our normal, motion, opacity, our time
remapping, all the normal affects controls we have on any clip,
and you will see that there aren't any controls to change the text,
to get those, I need to click on the master clip,
which is in the project panel. So I'll double-click that, then when I click the
effects control,
look at there. My title text, so I'll change that to
Machu Picchu, and here is the gotcha. So now it says Machu Picchu,
but because this is a master clip, and we have used it twice,
if I go back to where the Pelican was, that also says Machu Picchu.
So I need to have a different way, to add different
instances, to the master clip on the time line, so we can have different names
and different
text for each of those. If I don't do that,
when I update one, they will all be updated, and that's no good.
The way to do this, and I will delete
both of those instances from the time line, is to
right click on your master clip. So this is a lower third,
black master template, what I'm going to do is
I am going to right click, and then
duplicate this, and then what I'll have
is a copy of this, and you can see if expand this,
that this has created a copy. There it is a copy01.
I am going to rename that too,
the Shy Pelican. I'm using that because I have already used Pelican before.
So, I've got that, now I can do is they can take the shy Pelican,
open that in my effects controls, and then type in
The Shy Pelican, and then when I take that
and throw it on my time line, it says The Shy Pelican.
Now what I can do, is go down here, and I can just duplicate The Shy Pelican, that's fine,
I'll duplicate that, and
I'll rename that to Machu Picchu,
and I'll name that Machu Picchu,
yeah just that. Then, I'll go in,
double-click in my project panel, and make sure I have double clicked on Machu Picchu,
in my affects control I can just type in
Machu Picchu,
and then when I drag that to the time Iinw, I have created a brand new
instance. It's not the same as the other one, and so when I go over here
you can see it says Machu Picchu, that's the Shy Pelican. If I want to change this,
again I can't double click here in the instance,
I have to go over here to the master clip, and then I can change that from just
Machu Picchu to Machu Picchu
is great, or whatever I want to call it, and you can see that, so you are going to be
duplicating these,
and then dragging an instance over, the nice thing is you can create
say the Pelican, say if I want to use that twenty times in mind project,
I can just keep adding that same
Pelican, an instance of that, and if I say 'darn it' I misspelled the Pelican,
the shy Pelican in twenty places,
we have to updated in one place and it will
fix all of those instances, so it is really a nice feature.
But to get different text, you need to have different
instances of your master clips, so you use 'duplicate' to get that.
Okay, the other thing that is a gotcha, if you start working with these,
is transitions. I'm going to go to my main timeline here, and show you something that is
important. We have here two clips, Machu Picchu,
and it transitions into the Blue-Footed Booby. So what I want to do is zoom in on the
time line,
and show you this cross dissolve. Notice where the cross dissolve
begins, right here, when we start to scrub through
notice that you can see up here, part of the
bird, the Blue-Footed Booby over Machu Picchu.
So what's happening is, this clip on the right hand side, the blue-footed booby
is giving some of its information over here on the left hand side, so it's
polling in some over here,
and as we transition, in the center of this
we have an equal amount the the birds,
and Machu Picchu, so we have a little both, and then as we continue
we still have a little bit of Machu Picchu, but more of
the bird, and on we go until we get rid of that. So what that means,
all the way over here, depending on how a large your dissolve is, or whatever
effect you are using,
you have to have some this first
clip, or the second clip to give to the first clip, or else that won't work,
and so when you are creating your text,
your live text templates, this is important. Let's take a look
this lower third that I created, it's called
'lower third black', this double click that. When we scrub through here you can see
that this effect happens, or that this clip
starts immediately, there is no space, okay,
and so what will happen, is if we try to use this
with an effect, it's not going to work. Let me show you exactly what I mean,
so over here on the time line I'll take this affect,
I'm going to stretch this out, and then I'm going to take
a new instance of this, we will duplicate this,
and we are going to rename this
'transition demo', just so you can see that,
and then we will add some text here, we will call it
'I'm a demo'.
Okay, it's late here so,
alright we are going to throw this in, so we go from Machu Picchu,
to 'I'm a demo'. Now if we try
to add a dissolve effect, a cross dissolve effect,
watch what happens. I'll go in here to video transitions,
dissolve, cross dissolve, and try to throw this on here,
and look it won't allow me to do it.
It won't allow me to dissolve between. The reason is,
this clip right here, this lower third animation,
begins immediately, and so, what I would have to do is, I would have to be able to
trim some of that. So I'll delete this cross dissolve, I have to be able to trim
some of that,
bring it back, and then I can put my cross dissolve
across these, and so what has to happen is, when you are designing your
lower thirds and animations, need to make sure you put enough room on the
beginning of those so that you can use your different animations, or your
different transitions. So I'm going to open After Effects, and show you exactly how
I've done that,
because when we go back to the beginning of this,
you can see here, we have the shy Pelican
and it transitions into Machu Picchu.
The way that I did that, I created a separate live text
template, it has more space. So let's zip back over here to
After Effects, and we are going to open up our project really fast, and you can see I
have 'lower third black',
and 'lower third black ADTV'.
If we open that ADTV,
you will notice that the AdoramaTV logo does not animate in,
and then we have a full second, before the rest in the animation begins,
and so that full second allows us to add a transition
if we need it, and if we go back over here to Premiere,
you can see that's exactly what's happening as we step through this,
notice the shy Pelican, this is starting to dissolve out,
but the AdoramaTV remains constant because
it isn't animated, and then we start our animation
with the second of our live text templates.
So when you are designing these, have those transitions in mind, because a lot
of times
you want to add some kind of transition between clips and lower thirds,
it's really really important that you can do that. Alright
the other thing that we want to do, I want to show you really quickly,
is how you can quickly, quickly,
change your master templates for different variations. So right now, with that
white text on a black background
but what if we had really dark scene, we would want to switch that. So over in
After Effects, it's really, super easy to do that, so I can go into my 'lower third black',
hit 'Edit', and then 'Duplicate',
and I've got a new instance and takes everything that I had before, I rename that
to let's say 'lower third white', and then
I would just go in here to 'lower third white', and I we take these things like this right here,
instead of having that fill being black
I would change that fill to be white, and I would take my
text, and my text, instead of having that
text being black, I would make my text white.
So I would grab that, and you get the idea. So here we go,
instead of that being black, or white, we make that black,
et cetera et cetera. So I have just reversed that, and I can save that,
and then when I move over to Premiere, I can bring that in, and you can see how easily is to switch
colors around.
The nice thing is, if I go back to my lower third,
I can do my import ,like we showed you before,
right click import, this is on my desktop,
and I can open this guy up,
master templates, and now here is my lower third white.
Click, now I've got a lower third white template
to choose from, and it is exact opposite of my black template,
and on you go, you can see how this is really easy to change
very, very quickly, and at a lot variation. Well there you have it, all the
different gotchas of amusing live text templates,
and how to work around those. Once you get the hang a i,t I don't think you will
ever go back to creating titles inside of Premier Pro,
because it's just too easy to create life text templates.
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