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Previsualizing a template

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Previsualizing a template

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to talk about previsualizing a template or an After Effects template for that matter. The first thing that you do is you start off with a template idea and when thinking about what makes a good template idea, I want you to ask yourself, whether it's yourself or in an organization, what motion graphic process is repeated quite often and how can it be simplified? And can it be actually simplified with a template? In simplifying a process, you want to make sure that that template is easy to use. If it's not easy to use, you're going to want to think about simplifying the controls, which we can do in a number of ways. With templates and it comes to selling and previsualizing, you want to see if your template has some originality to that. With that said, what can be added to the template for it to stick out compared to your competitors and also to see if your template might be on trend or…

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