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Robert89
Robert89
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January 28, 2026
Question

I don't know how to create a mogrt than can be repositioned by dragging and clicking in premiere

  • January 28, 2026
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Adding in point controls only allows me to reposition by changing the values, not by sliding it around with my mouse. I want to be able to snap my mogrts to my guides.

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    Kyle Hamrick
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    Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
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    January 28, 2026

    As useful as they can be, Mogrts do have some workflow limitations, and many of them boil down to “the thing you built in Ae can’t really see what you’re doing in the Premiere project.”

    You have to approach the problem from a different direction. If you’re wanting to snap to a Premiere guide, that means you can get the pixel value of that guide location (by right-clicking on it), which could then be applied to the Mogrt property. You’d also have to build the Mogrt so that position property lines up with the edge you’re wanting to snap to the guide, and if you want to be able to snap multiple possible sides, now you need a way to select that. 

    As another example: you can use expressions to make elements be aware of the size of your comp in Ae, but when passed through to Premiere, it can’t read your sequence settings. Thus, you have to build for the different potential sizes and make them selectable via dropdown. 

    Are these less elegant workflows? Yep, but they’re doable if you understand the limitations.

    They’ve made great strides to integrate these two apps, but I suspect we’ll always have some hurdles here. Let me know if you need specific guidance on other Mogrt functionality, or if you have suggestions for the team on how you’d like things to work, make sure to submit them! 

      Robert89
      Robert89Author
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      January 28, 2026

      Thank you! All I’m looking to do is have my text in premiere be stylized in a cool way, and it seems like mogrt is the way to go. My mogrt really just adds a little shape bar on the side of the text box. I think having the functionality of being able to snap the text to a guide is better than the cool style bar. Are you aware of any other way I could accomplish what I’m trying to do? Thank you for helping me!

      Kyle Hamrick
      Community Expert
      Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 28, 2026

      @Kyle Hamrick I don’t think your objectives are mutually exclusive.

      You can definitely get something to snap to a guide in AE, but you won’t get a Mogrt control - or an Ae layer tied to that Mogrt control - to snap to a Premiere guide. It just doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. So, you can take the above approach of manually entering the pixel value into a Mogrt control, or … 

      Thinking around that limitation … if you’re making something that will always be left-aligned, for example, you could design it in Ae such that the elements literally touch the left edge of the frame. In my example, my text is left-aligned, and the box’s left edge is exactly at x 0. 

      Now in Premiere, I can snap that Mogrt-as-clip to the Premiere guide, just like I could any other asset. 

      It’s also totally possible to make this box be aware of the text size, and adjust itself accordingly. The sourceRectAtTime() expression is the key to doing that (good tutorials available by EC Abrams and/or JakeInMotion), but you can do this without knowing expressions by using either of the “2d Text Box” Ae presets pictured here. 

      Remember that Mogrts are ultimately just treated as clips on your Premiere timeline (albeit with extra properties), so you can use any of Premiere’s existing Transform adjustments, blending modes, effects, etc. in combination with the actual Mogrt capabilities to arrive at your end result. 

      ShiveringCactus
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      ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
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      January 28, 2026

      Could you add a 2D Point Control (from Effects > Expression Controls) and then in After Effects link this to the layer’s position.  It’s not drag-and-drop like you wanted, but it might get closer to the end result.

      Failing that, I think your next caption is going to be to use expressions to determine where the mortgage is in the frame.  Essential Graphics MoGrts are basically their own AE comps inside PP.  To get the sort of drag and drop you’re after, would need the comp to know its position as if it were nested.(I think)

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