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September 8, 2026
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Bringing MOGRT's back into After Effects After being used in Premiere Pro / Alternate Workflow options

  • September 8, 2026
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Due to a workflow in place, my motion team and I create MOGRT's and provide them to our editing team for subbing. It’s usually a simple glow on text etc. This is good for temporary approval, but afterwards my motion team need to recreate these subs in AE for collect purposes. This is quite a time consuming process of scrubbing through the subtitles made on the edits, and recreating the style as words animate on for example, on our end. Is there any workaround anyone might know, to perhaps bring in MOGRT's from a premiere sequence, after they've been used in an edit as subs, back into After Effects. Equally a potential way to improve the situation would be to at least see some sort of marker or keyframe when importing back into After Effects, after the MOGRT’s been used by our edit team - So my Motion team can hop directly to each keyframe/marker, instead of scrubbing through.

It’s a tricky topic as research on my end seems to not be very specific about bringing MOGRT’s that have been subbed/changed in Premiere, back into After Effects. Seems as though importing a sequence of just the subbed/changed MOGRT’s doesn't read with After Effects - It responds with the “not a recognised file type” when importing a premiere sequence with just the subbed MOGRT’s laid on the track.

Aware it’s a more niche way to use MOGRT’s. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Happy to consider plugin’s that may help this workflow in place.

 

 

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Community Manager
September 8, 2026

Hi there,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I can see why this would save your motion team a lot of time.

MOGRTs aren't currently designed as a round-trip workflow. Changes made to an After Effects MOGRT in Premiere, such as text and other exposed properties, aren't written back into the original After Effects composition. Importing the Premiere sequence into After Effects, therefore, won't recreate those customized MOGRT instances as editable AE compositions.

Your idea of passing the customized text/timing information back to After Effects, or at least providing markers or other usable timing data, sounds like a useful workflow improvement.

Would you like me to move this post to the After Effects Feature Requests forum so the team can consider it and other users can vote on it?

Thanks,
Kevin