Make the Essential Graphics interface options flexible & robust (Folders)

Gotta add another vote to this. It's 2021 and many of us have dozens or hundreds of mogrts that need an actually usable way to navigate. Searching is nice but doesn't always even work. For instance, I have a ton of mogrts installed that are just named "Title 1, ..." or "Title_01, ..." but when I search for "Title", nothing shows up. And Libraries are helpful, but it isn't realistic to manually add dozens of files from a new pack to a new library, every single time. All we need is to be able to make a folder, add the mogrts, and boom your done.

It doesn't make sense to make My Templates stuck to the way you want to show Adobe Stock. They're two different things, for two different purposes.

Hi Michael,

I mean... I gotta level with you. I don't think the folders are coming back after three years. That was a version 1 design and it got replaced by the current model to support multiple views, from CC Libs to Stock.

We did add a way to add file paths to specific folders on your system or server though! If you click on the hamburger menu in the EGP, you can choose "Manage Additional Folders" and link to your custom folders. This will create a dropdown menu that you can then filter your view by.

Another alternative to return to the way it was is to install Premiere Composer.

Mr. Horse makes this really rad free plug-in that comes with a ton of free Mogrts, but most importantly has a panel that organizes your content, including Mogrts into a more traditional folder structure.

Mr. Horse is an incredible 3rd-party developer and has a long track record of making complimentary tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Hope this helps!

https://misterhorse.com/premiere-composer

https://youtu.be/CPgSPWIw1Qk

Cheers,
Dacia

Folders please? No? Three years not enough time to bring back a previous feature?

Hi James,

Thanks for the reply.

Re: (1) "Can you help us understand what the actual editing/creative workflow is where someone would want to add 48 mogrts at once, all in a row in the same track?"

I'm not sure why you ask this since you already answered this question yourself when you wrote "I have requested this myself because it's often part of my testing process to analyze a lot of mogrts at once." Same goes for me and everyone else. Whether it's to test 2 different .mogrts at once or 48, what's the difference? The ability to drag multiple .mogrts to the Timeline at once would be very helpful anytime they don't have video previews and/or useful thumbnails.

What I'm suggesting is just a stopgap solution to help users evaluate their .mogrts which don't have a video preview. The best solution by far would be for Adobe to make video previews available for all .mogrts (also allowing users to easily create their own previews when an independent .mogrt developer couldn't do so previously or doesn't care to do so once they're able to).

Re: (2) "This could get dangerous." I don't see how deleting the junk files I mention could ever be dangerous. The only thing that should be deleted are the files that Pr automatically creates inside the "Motion Graphics Template Media" folder when adding a .mogrt to the Timeline. No user in their right mind would ever keep the only copy they have of a .mogrt inside a subfolder with a crazy name such as "7913d488-10cf-446e-a775-90d47351ea87". You wrote "I think we want to err on the side of NOT automatically deleting any user media from disk". While I agree 100% with that statement, the files I'm talking about Pr deleting are not 'user media', they're files created by Pr. If a user tests 10 .mogrts in their Timeline and discards 9 of them, what's the sense of Pr polluting the user's Project window and their "Motion Graphics Template Media" folder with a bunch of junk files the user does not need nor want? Hopefully, respecting an editor by keeping things clean and tidy is a "really compelling use case for this". 😉 If a user ever wants to use any of the .mogrts previously discarded from their Timeline, they can easily do so by dragging them back into their Timeline from the EGP. Once again, to be crystal clear, an original .mogrt on a user's system should never be deleted by Pr just because a user deletes it from their Timeline. Only the supplemental files created by Pr should be removed. Please note that I'm not advocating for a destructive workflow in any way, shape or form.


I believe this is what most Pr users would like:
#1. Add video previews to all .mogrts

If #1 can't be provided by Adobe in a timely fashion (i.e. by the end of 2021), then...

#2. Give us the ability to drag multiple .mogrts to the Timeline
and also, if possible, but of lesser importance...
#3. Automatically delete junk .mogrt files when they are not relevant to the user (i.e. when .mogrts are tested on the Timeline and then deleted)

#2 and #3 are NOT an alternative to #1, but would be great to help us get by while work is done on providing #1.

If any of this still isn't clear, please let me know. Thank you!

Thank you for the thorough feedback as always, Pierre. For now I will just respond to those 2 additional points you made.

Re: (1) Drag and drop multiple mogrts to sequence. I have requested this myself because it's often part of my testing process to analyze a lot of mogrts at once. But this is not a real user scenario and when asked to come up with a real use case, I have not been able to. Can you help us understand what the actual editing/creative workflow is where someone would want to add 48 mogrts at once, all in a row in the same track?

Re: (2) This could get dangerous. A lot of people purchase and use stock mogrts and expect to be able to keep them in their EGP to use whenever they want. If they don't remember to move them to a Library or some additional folder location they could lose their purchases for good. In any case, I think we want to err on the side of NOT automatically deleting any user media from disk or even from within a bin in the project. But again, if you have a really compelling use case for this, we'd like to hear about it.

Mr. Horse makes a really rad free plug-in called Premiere Composer that comes with a ton of free Mogrts, but most importantly has a panel that organizes your content, including Mogrts into a more traditional folder structure.

Mr. Horse is an incredible 3rd-party developer and has a long track record of making complimentary tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Hope this helps!

https://misterhorse.com/premiere-composer

https://youtu.be/CPgSPWIw1Qk

This was 2018 and we're STILL waiting on this?

Hi Mara, thanks for your comment. Would you please file a separate user voice post and give a little more information about the issue you are facing? Also please send a screenshot which shows the problem. This way we can focus on your specific issue. Thanks! Annika