Re: Video Previews for Motion Graphics Templates Thumbnails in After Effects (Beta) 24.2.0x22

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January 31, 2024
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I'm running into a weird issue. I have an animated logo that is all black. On the black transparency, it appears as black on black making the thumbnail useless because it just looks like a black image on a black background. Is there a way of replacing the thumbnail with a static screenshot or something with a white background that doesn't carry over when using the MOGRT?

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_nicdean

Community Expert

@Sean McKeown-Young_replacing MOGRT preview media (thumbnails + video) is super easy with Aep To Mogrt Pro. Highly recommend instead of doing it manually

Theresa Rostek

Community Manager

You'd have to use the workaround everyone was using before this feature addition to add custom previews.

Create the png and mp4 with the backgrounds you want (both need to be 640x360)
rename the mogrt extension to zip
unzip it
replace the previews
rezip
rename extension to mogrt
Check in Premiere that it works

kulss

Inspiring

There's a couple of ways to solve this. None are elegant nor intuitive, but these work!

You can add a custom thumbnail on the After Effects Beta according to this post (haven't tried this method yet), it seems to be the easiest way.
What also would work is to add a white shape layer behind your logo, click "Set Poster Time" on Essential Graphics and then delete the white shape layer. That way you'll create a custom static thumbnail and you'll be able to see the logo easily. However, if you do another slight change to the MOGRT I think you'll have to go through this process again
You could also get inside the MOGRT and replacing thumb.png

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