Motion Tracking Essential Graphics in Premiere Pro

Do you need to add motion tracking to your Essential Graphics in Premiere Pro?

The two most common motion tracking workflows are
1) do it all in After Effects (auto tracking)
2) do it all in Premiere Pro (manual tracking)

But there is a third option that's easy, it allows you to keep your animations in Premiere and doesn't require you to manually keyframe everything.

This workflow is ideal for people who are not familiar with After Effects or would just prefer to keep all their assets in the one Premiere Pro project. In this example, I use a call-out title that I created using the Essential Graphics panel, but you can use any graphic.

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:34 Prepare the footage for motion tracking
00:01:18 Track motion in the footage
00:03:35 Apply the motion tracking to the graphic

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Paul Murphy (The Premiere Pro)
Editor & Post Production Consultant

[fullcirclegla]

On point with this. I've been a motion designer, video editor and designer for 10 years and did not know you could copy a layer from After Effects and paste it straight into Premiere. Thank you kindly.

[UlyssesStudios]

Wonderful tutorial. The best on tracking in Premiere. Thank you very much

[foxhallww]

Man your tutorials are on point. I just watched 3 videos that I have been searching for so long to find an best explanation on. Subbed!

[UserTenNumbers]

You need After Effects for this. Adobe does not just mean Premiere Pro. Don't say in your video (0:06) it can be done Premiere then launch After Effects to do it.

[pokedrive]

Silence for the people who dont have after effects

[dalontekeemer]

saved me so much time....I could hug you right now. Thank you so much!

[channelst]

Crimea - oh. wow! You got me! Thanks! Greetings from Ua!

[jleppinphotography]

oh my goodness that is useful, big thx, thumbs up man😁🥰😍🤩

[ColonelsMultimediaNeerajChadha]

Thank you for sharing this video, its been very helpful.

[ooSpyderoo]

Of course that tracking plug-in now makes this a snap to do and without AE.

[angusbooker]

Concise, informative and extremely useful... Thankyouuuu.

[movie-trailer]

Wow. A good option for tracking text. That's why this function for simple text tracking will not be made in the Premiere itself 🤦‍♂️

[EZeemedia]

This is precisely awesome thanks mate 👍

[hellionrage]

Great tut... Any on how to design the title tracking the castle... I'd like to do one like that. 👍

[jasonrussellwaters]

This is very helpful man, many thanks

[jpbonnelly]

Aaaand...Like, Subscribe, Bookmark. Thanks!

[cameronwarn]

Nice. If only they’d just add a tracker in Premiere though… Miss that from AVID.

[amcaesar]

Those of us who live in the cave fear After Effects. We do not speak his name.

[fihgvqc]

I've been scouring the web for some insight on y challenge which is creating a tracking for a tracking point that comes into frame and then out of frame for example like a plane. What is the best approach?

[IntriguingMegalithic]

I almost just paid $24 for the Adobe Mask to Transform Extension to do this SAME thing! Why does Adobe SELL a Premier Extension to do this, , when you can just do it your way? Additionally, I searched my creative cloud for the Mask to Transform Extension, , hoping it would be included in my CS Suite, , and it's not! So, , thank You for showing me how You do it! Thank You! Subbed!