How to Create Animated Previews for MOGRTs (Motion Graphics Templates)

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Tired of seeing inconsistent mogrt previews in Premiere Pro's essential graphics panel? I am! Use this hack to create an animated preview for your most used mogrts. Also, if you're a motion designer start doing this to all your mogrts.

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TIMECODES
0:00 The mogrt inconsistency
0:28 Intro
1:01 Essential Graphics Panel Preview Problem
1:23 Why is it this way?
2:10 How to Dissect a Mogrt file
3:36 Open mogrt in After Effects
4:07 Change Frame Size
4:53 Export Preview as .Mp4
5:33 Create Preview Still Image
7:09 Recompress new preview into a .mogrt
8:09 My recommendations for designers & adobe
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[PremiereGal]

I'm back! Let me know if you want more hack videos like this :) Hope this helps and I hope Adobe makes it easier for motion designers to export with animated previews.

[managerofthenewportplumses]

You hit the nail on the head when you said you hope that Adobe is listening. Although this is a great tutorial going through that process manually for every Mogart on one's system would be way too time consuming. Come on Adobe don't make us waste hundreds of hourrs doing this - come up with a way to automate this for us as otherwise these things are unwieldy and very hard to work with - defeating their whole purpose actually! One creator's opinion. Go get em gal!

[roninglis]

Several related tips that might help... Tip1; On a PC you can do all this without actually having to "unpack" the MOGRT file and round-trip through AE v.2022. First, make CERTAIN you have made a back-up copy of the MOGRT files, in case you screw up. Then simply drop the already installed mogurt onto the PP Timeline, and render out the section that you want to use for your preview. (Better scrubbing if you keep it to just the animated section.) Once you have your new "thumb.mp4" you can use the free 7-Zip app to "Open Archive" on your installed MOGRT. Just drag the new "thumb.mp4" file into the 7-Zip window, and close it to save. (Make sure you only have one mp4 if you're revising.) Voila! You're all done. Go back to PP, and it will take a moment for the animation to populate the preview in Essential Graphics panel. (Sorry, I don't know if there's a method like that on a Mac. 🙂) Save the AE render preset, and this process is extremely fast. Tip 2; Size doesn't have to be 700x394, as 640x368 works too. This process doesn't seem to work if your mp4 has an audio track! (That drove me mad...) Tip 3; You may have noticed, the MOGRT file name is not actually related to what PP will call the Mogurt. For me that just sows a lot of confusion, but it can also be fixed without AE. While you are in 7-Zip you can edit the "definition.json" file to alter the name for the MOGRT within the PP Interface. Within that file edit the following variable: capsuleNameLocalized":{"strDB":[{"localeString":"en_US", "str":"YOUR ADOBE INTERFACE NAME HERE"}]} That will will actually change the name shown in Essential Graphics, so that it is more meaningful to you. Name the MOGRT with that same name and it's all in harmony, and you can now easily find the source correct file. Handy when there are 3 files, all called "01" in the OS and/or interface. Thumbs up to Premiere Gal for the tips.

[wallstreetpress]

This tutorial is gold. The most valuable part was editing the mogrts in After Effects. I couldn't figure out how to get them back into an editable state. Thanks for the video!

[VickiDavisDesigns]

Hi Gal. Welcome back. You were missed. Love this video!

[rsmstudios]

Thanks for doing this video. The only downside is I have 100s of MOGRTs and to do this for everyone would take F-O-R-E-V-E-R! I really hope that Adobe does this internally so all of our MOGRTs would have preview files. Now, we have to drag them to the timeline and render them just to see if it is the MOGRT that we want to use and will work with what we are trying to do. Glad to have you back!!!!

[kevindow]

This is great, Kelsey. Very clever! Thanks for showing this. This saves me hours of frustration.

[dushan]

Thank you for this tutorial. I have searching how to do it and that will great i can find it on your channel. I think I need repeat this to all my mogrts. Thank you.

[TimMillaway]

Thank you Gal! I 'm in love with MOGRTs!!

[Newyorkhoje]

Hi Kelsey! Thanks for this tutorial and happy 2022!

[christopherg.]

You're awesome. The tips you give are the best!

[HunterReynolds]

Wow hats off to you for discovering this. Extremely clever!

[alicehmchow]

Omg you are the goddess 👍🏻 I am so grateful to find you 💜

[ghogarth]

Big Thumbs up! Thanks for this (and all your other videos)

[danielrichter]

Thanks Kelsey, This video has compelled me to share my investment experience for 2021, I believe it will help a lot of people here that are confused on how to start the new year.

[kellysunshine]

Thank you, omg. I use Envato, too, but downloading an asset pack can be next to useless when preview options are not readily available. I definitely do not have time to or interest in doing this to all my files, but it will make me think twice before downloading from the same artist or site in the future.

[BOXBOX]

Hi Kelsey. How are you doing? I wanted to ask if you have a master class on After effects. Keep up the good work. I love your videos

[RJMCTV]

Brilliant that you found out how to do this hack. (you are like the Sherlock Holmes of Premiere Pro mysteries!!!!). But like you hint at in your video - and in your call out of creators and ADOBE - that despite how brilliant this method you have uncovered is, it is alas not really practical in reality, as I don't have 10 yrs to spare to do this for the several hundred Mogrts I have. But thanks for sharing - it really is a clever hack. And thanks too for calling out ADOBE to include an automatic version of this, so we can see clearly an animated preview of the 1000s of MOGRTS most of us have now accumulated from suppliers. You ROCK!!

[PoMkAc]

Hi Kelsey ✌️thanks for tutorial. But why we need to do it in After Effects not in Premiere?

[standingroominc]

Great tip, Kelsey! Seriously...that has been bugging the heck out of me!