AE Template Projects

[David Bogie]

You most likely elected not to install them.
Mine are located within a folder called PRESETS in the application folder.
Wait, you say “templates.”
RTFM?
This is from the online help system for AE:

A template project is a file with the filename extension .aet. You can use the many template projects included with After Effects—including DVD menu templates—as the basis for your own projects, and you can create new templates based on your projects.

When you open a template project, After Effects creates a new, untitled project based on the template. Saving changes to this new project does not affect the template project.

A great way to see how advanced users use After Effects is to open one of the template projects included with After Effects, open a composition to activate it, and press U or UU to reveal only the animated or modified layer properties. Viewing the animated and modified properties shows you what changes the designer of the template project made to create the template.
Often, the creator of a template project locks layers that should be left unmodified, and leaves layers that should be modified unlocked. This is a convenient way to prevent accidental or inappropriate modifications.

You can download example projects and template projects from many websites, including the After Effects Exchange on the Adobe website.

Jonas Hummelstrand provides a simple and useful Beautiful Earth example project on his General Specialist website.

Open a template project
To browse and open template projects using Adobe Bridge, choose File > Browse Template Projects. Double-click a template project to open it.
To open a template project, choose File > Open Project. On Windows, choose Adobe After Effects Project Template from the Files Of Type menu.
Create a template project
To convert a project to a template project, change the filename extension from .aep to .aet.
To save a copy of a project as a template project, choose File > Save A Copy, and then rename the copy with the filename extension .aet.

bogiesan

[Matt Carl]

Someone else installed AE on my computer so I have no idea if they installed the templates or not? I figured out my original question about where they are stored though by looking on another computer. In the AE applications folder there is a “Template” Folder which contains the AE projects and there is a separate “Footage” folder inside the application folder that contains those projects graphics and media.
I didn’t see that anywhere in the long AE Help post you copied and pasted but thanks for encouraging me to RTFM anyhow.

[David Bogie]

[Matt Carl] “I didn’t see that anywhere in the long AE Help post you copied and pasted but thanks for encouraging me to “

I disagree. AE templates have a specific extension and now that you you know wht it is, you can search for it.

bogiesan

[Matt Carl]

Yeah, I tried a search for all sorts of stuff but the templates were never installed so it never came up with anything. I was just looking for someone to let me know were the Template projects are usually stored but I eventually found that out by looking on another computer, not something I found from RTFM but I always do appreciate helpful advice thus this is why I am here on the COW.