From the course: Creating After Effects Templates

What you should know - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Creating After Effects Templates

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What you should know

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- The first thing you should know before watching this course is that you should have some knowledge of After Effects before beginning with creating templates. Look no further than LinkedIn Learning to find essential-based training, along with an incredible weekly series from Eran Stern to get you up and running with tips and tricks in After Effects. Now if you're using After Effects, whether it be on a PC or a Mac, you're going to want to head to Adobe's Help section and find out the specific requirements needed for optimal performance when running After Effects and the current version that we'll be using, which is Adobe CC 2020. This is going to give us access to the most new updates for working with templates. Now if you have access to the exercise files, feel free to download them from LinkedIn Learning. Once you receive them, store them on your desktop. If you double-click the folder, under the Northern Lights folder, you'll see aep file, This happens to be the After Effects project that we'll be working with. If you double-click it, you'll see that this will open inside of After Effects. And for any reason that some of your files are not connecting, such as, you can see here my photos, you can reconnect to the material from the folder. Simply select any photo, right-click, and choose replace footage file. Go back to where you stored your exercise files. And if I select the Footage folder, my photo assets. I'll just select the 15_1.jpg. Once I do, it will see all of the other missing items and connect them to the project. You can play around with some of the open compositions just to see, along with a ton of useful stuff already here for setting up templates. Now let's start our journey of creating After Effects templates by looking at the essentials of what a Mogrt file actually is.

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