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AE lowerthirds in Premiere?
With Final Cut X around the corner, my company is migrating to Premiers (better integrations with our current server, systems). Currently we use Motion templates for lower thirds in FCP. Editor can drop Motion template onto video and edit the text fields.
Is there something similar in Premiere? If the lower third is designed in After Effects, can it be imported into Premiere and have text fields editable similar to a Motion file in FCP?
Thanks in advance,
–Nicole
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14 Replies
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Hiya…
I know this quite well.
There is no “publish” equivalent in the PPro AE dynamic link workflow.Alex
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But you still can round-trip easy enough…
Chris Tompkins
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Yes….sorry should not have been so short.
But before we jump through the hoops of dynmaic link for lower thirds….
let’s talk about what, visually, you are tying to accomplish…
maybe there’s a better workflow that will provde speed and flexibility for what you are trying to accomplish.
Alex
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Thanks for your reply! Basically I have an animated lower third that is designed in After Effects. All the video editors need to do is modify the text. Problem is, the editors are only familiar with Premiere and most have a limited knowledge of Photoshop. I am trying to avoid having an editor go into AE to modify text and save a new file every time he/she needs to place a new lowerthird in Premiere.
Final Cut Studio worked great because I could just create lower thirds in Motion with editable text fields and save them as templates. All an editor has to do is drop the motion template on the timeline and edit the text fields in the motion tab of FCP without having to save each lower third as a separate file or roundtrip between programs.
I’m hoping there is a similar workflow in Adobe. So far, the easiest workflow I can think of is editing the text of the lowerthird in Photoshop and bringing the file into Premiere. But then you have to save each lowerthird as a separate file and when you’re working on long-form projects, this can add up to a lot of files and slows down the workflow.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
–Nicole
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can it be so that the background of the lower 3rd is a AE animation, but the type is wiped/dissolved/revealed in PPro?
that would make it pretty simple.
Alex
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The titler (for setting the text) is pretty easy and good in PPro.
Very easy to set up a template as for the type as well.
Alex
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Awesome! Thanks! What’s the easiest way to creat a text template in PPro?
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Just to clarify…
you make the animated bkg in AE…in your case you can just render it out with alpha…no dynamic link necessary…
and then the editors use that element and title from the titler on the timeline
so 3 layers in ppro…
is your group on shared storage?
Alex
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If you do not have time to create in AE of Photoshop then buy templates from Digital Juice or footage firm. But PPro lower thirds are more than enough and all you do is to modify them.
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