How to make text size, font color, font type, etc. customizable in Essential Graphics?

[EazyWorldPeace]

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"

[Mylenium]

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]

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.

[EazyWorldPeace]

In addition, the stock Adobe-created Essential graphics templates in Premiere allow you do adjust everything I mentioned, so I'm wondering why when creating an EG Template there is no way of allowing those properties to be edited.

[Roei Tzoref · Accepted solution]

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...

[EazyWorldPeace]

Thanks Roei, that was helpful. I guess with time Adobe will add more options in EG in the future, but for now this is a good start. Thanks again!

[El Wombat]

Thank you, Roei for the aid and you, Worldpeace, for bringing this topic up. 

Firstly, I would like to add for newbies (like me) that the animations are very accessible you just find and press "animate" in the layer properties left of the timeline. 

Secondly, there now seems an even easier way to make the font size controllable with the EGP template than the one Roei suggested for you can now simply drag from the text layer menu "transform" properties to the EGP as you wish. The slider would of course be more elegant and probably the best solution if you think you'll be doing a lot of those adjustments in Premiere Pro. 

[moreburritos]

This was driving me crazy as well! I noticed that some of the Essential Graphics templates provided by Adobe have Font editing capabilities. I finally realized that these templates were originally created in Adobe Premiere rather than After Effects. When you make a title graphic with animation directly in Premiere, you can right-click on it and export as a Motion Graphics Template. These templates have more font editing capabilities in Premiere. Hope this also helps!

[scottwild]

Anyone here figure out how to adjust things like font, color, etc? I'd really like to know a work around.

Thanks!

[Guest]

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...