“Callouts”- like plugin (makes arrows, magnifiers, etc) for Premiere?

[Mike Molenda]

A lot of what these previews show can be done pretty easily with the built-in tools in After Effects, or Premiere’s Title Tool (which can handle things like shapes, type on path, gradient fills, etc), or even using the connectivity with Photoshop.

People tend to forget that last one all the time: anything you can create in Photoshop can be brought into Premiere, and remains editable at any time thanks to Dynamic Link.

These look like a collection of presets, which may be useful to you if you’re all thumbs in Photoshop/AE, or have to get a lot of these done very quickly. Unfortunately there’s nothing exactly like this for Premiere.

However, there are thousands of shapes and presets available for Photoshop and AE. You can probably find what you’re looking for as a custom shape (arrows and word balloons are pretty common), and find an animation that suits you among AE’s behavior presets. You could even create and save your own presets, and use them again and again.

And if you absolutely have to have the map animations, those can be generated in iMovie 😉

[Samuel Frazier]

Very sorry for the delay in thanking you (had another migraine), but thank you very much for your response! Unfortunately, I’m still trying to finish a project in Final Cut before I transition to CS6, so I’m not very familiar with Premiere’s Title tool. Love the idea of the integration with PS, AE, etc though. Really would need to learn much more about PS to do this quickly, so was hoping there might be a quick solution like Callouts. Really, I see myself using that kind of stuff a lot. Looks like I’m going to have to look at iMovie as well. Had no idea it included animation.

Thanks again!