How To Use Comp Templates

When you download a customizable After Furnishings template from Pond5, y'all'll receive a zero binder containing whatsoever media files included with the template (sometimes they'll even include a tutorial video), likewise as a preview video and a text document that can include detailed instructions.

Hither are a few templates that are available right now, along with a brief clarification on how to best utilize them for your projects. (Keep in mind that the music, photos, and videos presented in the preview on Pond5 are not always included with the template, since the artist unremarkably merely uses them for references.)

High-Tech Ui Lower Third

Lower thirds can exist the well-nigh bones motion graphic you use in your projection, then they're usually pretty streamlined when it comes to ease of use. One of the other benefits for lower thirds is that artists normally upload a pack or group of animations to give you lot some variety. This template includes a standard lower tertiary, a unmarried-line text box, two flashing icon boxes, and one multi-line text box, but I'm just going to go over the principal lower-third template.

To easily edit the text, go to your projection window and open the folder for the respective graphic you want (V1, V2, V3, etc.).

Find the "Change Elements Hither" binder and double-click on the layer y'all desire to change, then type in your text.

From here, all you have to practice is type in your text, go to your "Render Here" folder, double-click the "Return COMP" composition, and render out your layer (run a preview offset but to be safe). Make sure to deselect the unused layers using the optics on the composition layer control, and call up to include an alpha channel, since this is only a nameplate.

If yous desire to go a step further, you can adjust anything inside the circular "globe" graphic, but you lot don't want to touch as well much if yous don't know what you're doing. Luckily, the creative person included notes on the (merely) layers you should adjust, highlighted here.

Look advisedly in the graphic and you can run into the "pond5" I've added in both the rotating outer text and the highlighted vertical text using those 2 layers. If your discussion is longer or shorter in the vertical text, you need to adjust the orange highlight and the bluish squares accordingly, which can be washed in their respective layer controls. You'll need to mask the blueish squares and trim or extend the orangish highlight layer.

Colorful Quick Logo Reveal

Another quick and easy graphic to take in your library is a simple logo reveal. This could be used equally a stinger at the offset or stop (a.k.a. "intro" or "outro") of your videos, or just as a loop in your function monitors.

There are only two comps in this project, and only two layers full that need to be adjusted. To change the text, double-click the logo comp in the project window and select the text. Type in whatever you want your text to say.

The side by side matter to adjust is the color layers of the squares and background. Open the "master" limerick and find the "[color control]" layer. Twirl open the effects tab and click the color box to change information technology to whatever colour you prefer.

Remember not to touch annihilation if you lot aren't sure what you're doing. The creative person locked most of the layers hither, though, then you can't spiral it upwards too much!

Kinetic Typography

This is a common type of graphic that you see on many advertisements and infographics. The text is "kinetic" and moves in all dissimilar directions with quick zooms and rotations.

This template can be used in a few different ways. You tin keep all the text layers as they are and merely blazon in your new words, or you lot can go an extra pace and add (or replace a text layer with) a logo and add together text next to information technology. Either manner, you'll be changing the text in the layers, so let's start at that place.

Open up the projection and find the "Preview" comp. Notice the title or animation y'all desire to use and double click to open that template. In this instance, I'm working with Title_02. All yous have to practice now is double click on the text layer and type your new words, and they'll be animated. To encounter how it volition look in its final version, go to dorsum to the "Preview" tab and scrub through to see if you like information technology.

If it all works fine and nothing needs to be tweaked, get ahead and render. However, if something doesn't wait right or it needs to be adapted, you take to show the hidden layers by clicking on the "shy guy."

The shy guy is normally used to hibernate layers that shouldn't be changed, or to keep a more organized project. In this instance, it's used for both, but we demand to open up information technology in order to get our words to fit properly.

I re-typed the words that were in the composition (Title_02) to say "Blazon Annihilation IN THIS AE TEMPLATE," and now at the outset of the animation, you tin can see a random, lone "G" right side by side to the give-and-take "TYPE." That'southward actually the end of the word "Anything" and isn't supposed to be showing yet.

We demand to adjust the word "Annihilation" until that G is completely hidden, which means nosotros need to adapt its starting position keyframe to be hidden until it pops out. This is where we become to our subconscious layers and locate the keyframes we demand to accommodate.

Now that y'all've clicked the shy guy, you'll encounter that the word is parented to layer "2." Get to layer two and hit "u" or twirl down the pointer to see the keyframes. Now simply scrub to the beginning keyframe and move the position until the "G" is gone.

This is how this entire template works. Y'all accept to open the hidden layers then adjust the parented layers' keyframes. You lot can control the timing, positioning, calibration, and rotation, just like anything else. Only be sure that you don't do annihilation to the actual text layers, because that can create two sets of keyframes and throw everything off.

Dynamic Urban Opener

Credit sequences and intros are usually pretty piece of cake, because all you lot may need to exercise is re-type the names and keep the wait that'south already congenital in. That said, many of these templates allow you to switch out the video placeholders with your own footage, like this one.

You tin edit both the text and the visuals, so this is a petty more involved than our other templates, but that doesn't necessarily get in any tougher to work on. Permit's first with the text.

As with the other templates, in that location's a folder in the project that tells you where to change your text. Open up those individual layers and input your own custom text. Exist aware that some text boxes have two lines, then you need to hitting enter or return to brand it fit correctly.

Changing the logo is the same as the other templates as well — you simply import the new file and put it in the "!!Change_Logo" comp. Accommodate the size and positioning as well, and play information technology back to make certain it looks the way y'all desire it to.

At present we get to the video layers. The first stride is to create a new binder for the items yous're going to import into the project, and then import (⌘+I) your items into the folder.

Open up the "!!!Change_Video" comp. The trickiest part of this template is lining up the videos with the slides, merely the artist took the actress time and marked exactly where you need to identify each video layer in the composition. Cheque out the markers that say "cut" in the timeline. That's where yous want to set your in and out points for your videos.

You lot tin can either trim the commencement or end, or yous can hit "option+[" or "choice+]" to quickly set the points. The open up bracket ([) is the in point, and the closed bracket (]) is the out point. Here'due south a gif of the adjustments: