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EazyWorldPeace
EazyWorldPeace
Inspiring
November 7, 2017
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How to make text size, font color, font type, etc. customizable in Essential Graphics?

  • November 7, 2017
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Hey all,

     So I've recently learned how to create custom Essential Graphics templates in After Effects to use in Premiere and I love the idea of it so far. I'm generally happy that I can do such a thing, but now I've hit a roadblock that has made the whole point of it feel useless.

     I've come to understand that you drag certain properties from effects or whatnot into the essential graphics creation panel, however I've only found myself able to customize the source text, and nothing else relating to the text. It seems like After Effects allows me to drag in effects that have been applied to certain layers, but when it comes to adjusting font size, color, the font itself, it seems as though I'm stuck with whatever original one I used in the composition.

     Considering that I'm doing a lot of text-driven video content, its impossible for me to create thousands of different templates for each variation of the text I might want to use (one with bold text, one with italics, one slightly bigger, smaller, etc.) plus inside of the text I might need to adjust the color and style of one word and leave the others intact. So far I have not found any way to make these things customizable to be adjusted in Premiere Pro.

     Could someone please advise or point me in the right direction? I hope I'm just missing something and that it's not actually a "non-doable"

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Correct answer Roei Tzoref

you are correct that these parameters should be easily accessible.

Font Size

add an expression slider to the text layer and link the scale of the layer to the expression slider. now drag the slider to the essential graphics panel

Font Color:

add a fill color animator to the text layer or a fill effect and you can drag it to the EGP

the font: nothing you can do about this now...

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
November 7, 2017

It's not doable in its current form and quite frankly to me having those options kinda defeats the purpose of "templates" or for lack of a better word, dynamic titles. I mean the whole purpose of template-izing stuff to me seems to not let artistically uneducated/ untalented people mess up a designers meticulous work... That said, the mere number of adjustments you propose sounds like your whole workflow is standing on its head and you seriously might need to reconsider it. Even if the system supported these features, it seems to me doing them in Premiere would be a rather unpleasant chore, given the massive amount of tweaks you have in mind. AE seems better suited for this right off the bat and would make things much easier by toggling different layers' visibility, using text animators to adjust text size and whatnot.

Mylenium

EazyWorldPeace
EazyWorldPeaceAuthor
Inspiring
November 7, 2017

I think you may have misunderstood where I'm coming from. While I understand the "point of templates" is to create a framework for anyone to be able to plug & play, this is not the only use for templates. In my situation, as I mentioned, I am outputting a large volume of videos that involve text animations (slide in & out, up & down) and it would be very convenient if I could adjust the fonts, text size, color, etc within the essential graphics controls in PP since sometimes I need to italicize certain parts, color certain words, etc for the sake of the content I'm creating, and in this maybe you can understand why going back and forth between PP & AE would not be as efficient in the long run.

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