Media Replacement in After Effects
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Media Replacement has arrived in Motion Graphics Templates. This new feature (as of 2021) has opened a new world of possibilities in not only templates but all after effects projects. If you have not used this feature before, I hope this introduction to the concept can get you started.
Imagine that most layers can now be dynamically changed without needing new compositions. Clients can swap out a logo, certainly. Or change footage in a motion montage. That's cool too. But because any layer can be swapped out, that means that any source or base for effects can also be changed, so the possibilities for procedural graphics just got a whole lot more modular.
If you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
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I've been using AE for ~5 years and features like this are why it still feels like I've barely scratched the surface of the program. The possibilities just keep multiplying
This is actually a very new feature via Essential Graphics. The Essential Graphics and Master Properties have been a relatively newish feature that has been improving.
@@keithhopkin I should have said *updated features! I worked on a project w/Adobe to promote .mogrt templates on Adobe Stock. It's come such a long way in just 2-ish years. I can't blink or I'll miss all the new developments!
That feeling of always finding something new is probably why I've been with Ae for so long. Love the work coming from Mighty Oak BTW. You're crushing it over there.
@@ECAbrams amen to that. and thank you!
Using the gradient map as an essential property is a legendary idea, love it
Some real galaxy brain stuff right there :)
Holy moly this is genuinely exciting! Think I even posted in a user suggestion forum years ago about this feature so I am SHHHHTOKED
All our dreams are coming true now. It's really happening!
This is amazing, I work with templates all the time and I usually end up making a control comp with all the properties linked to it, but the possibility of making different instances and just having one original template comp with a control panel is great!
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Best mogrt tutorial video so far and I've been searching to find something like this for days!
Kudos to you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for posting this! Your AE tutorials are top quality, so glad I am a subscriber.
Glad you like them!
That’s incredibly powerful. Mind blown 🤯
Unlimited Power!
So amazing, thank you so much. I have find this video for a years
Original Master Propierties was a game changer feature, but this takes it to a whole new level. This is the ultimate Mogrt feature we have been asking for years, I cant wait to try it.
The game is forever changed again!!!
First of all, many thanks @ECAbrams for yet another mind expanding video.
One of your comments further down made me aware that you can pull a comp into the essential graphics panel and make it a piece of replaceable media. Now this sounds exiting like black magic but is at the same time equally hermetic. I can envision some clever usage and thus tested it via a MOGRT that I imported to PP. There I tried to replace the media/composition. Naturally, compositions are not valid file options, but I was pleased to see that AEP files are. When I tried out such a swap, PP simply crashed.
So what's a usecase for comps as replaceable media at all?
And I should add that 1 hour of black belt Google Foo on that topic didn't even bring up half an answer.
Hey Evan! I just wanted to say, a few years ago I was down in a rut because I thought I painted myself in a corner by becoming a ‘jack-of-all-trades’. I commented on one of your videos and your answer really challenged me. I kept thinking back to it from time to time. Well this week I was offered a really nice job as a AD and being able to do a bit of everything is really what they needed. Anyway I just wanted to share this, and thank you for your great videos and your answer a couple years back! Cheers :)
Well you are very welcome. I'm always very happy to hear that anything I do in this space is helping people get where they want to be.
Teachers are underrated!
Wow! Thank you so much. I always thought that 'nodes' are pretty much missing in AE for Pre-Comp. In fact it was me sleeping. Thank you, Bro, for amazing tutorials 👌
I love It
Cool
Excellent video👍
Nice tutorial.
I knew you would have the best explanation for this new feature.
I'm actually using this feature in a MOGRT but I have a unique challenge and I'm very curious as to how you would solve it...
I have a logo that animates in. Underneath that logo, WORDMARK.png will fade in afterwards, which will be replaced by the user/editor in Premiere. This PNG will vary in width, depending on the user, and it is not centre aligned with the above logo as it is aligned with a design element of the above logo, but the logo + PNG need to be centred on the screen as a group as it fades in. How would you solve getting that variable end centred position keyframe of the logo group to come over to Premiere in the Essential Graphics panel? I hope this makes sense. I'd love to get your thoughts on this.
Thanks!
Thanx
Hey Evan, this is a masterpiece of explanation - fast, but to the point where its very informative! Do you have any clues how swapping of media happens under the hood, when the same primary is re-used with different media elements? Like what you have done ~ 03:58. In the past, this would have been possible only my making duplicates in the project panel, and replacing media inside them. Now - its a brand new story!
Last one thing - do you happen to notice how much it affects previewing/rendering? As I assume it comes with a cost of some sort. Cheers!
Can you use media replacement for a transition to another video?
I need you help very badly . I received a footage from a client and when i import it to After effects it looks very flat . I need to add effects on it but since it looks very flat I cant really work on it (For greenscreen keying, the greenscreen looks grey) ..Please let me know which color settings I should choose to fix that , so that I can work on it ..The footage is standard REDRaw and transcoded without a LUT . Plz this is very urgent .Hope you will help !
I think this "without a LUT" part is the key. Your footage looks flat because it was captured in a different colour space from the one you are looking at in. If you want to convert it, or preview a conversion of it, you might just drop a LUT effect on an adjustment layer over everything. That will show what will happen with it is correctly converted from one colour space to another. I have a tutorial about colour spaces that might help you understand what's going on and what adjustments you may need to make to your specific workflow th-cam.com/video/Tf3x4dhxydk/w-d-xo.html there are many complexities when it comes to using this kind of footage.
@@ECAbrams Thank you very much for the quick reply . You are awesome !
Great tutorial, thanks Evan! Bummed to find out that it doesn't seem to work with continuously rasterizing AI vector files. Any work-arounds you know of?
You can uncheck the CR switch and it should work just fine. You might precompose as well. Do those work arounds help at all?
@@ECAbrams The client I have has a bunch of logos for their different brands in AI format, but they need to be scaled up 300% to not be tiny in AE. So they are fuzzy without CR enabled. Precomposed they just show up small. Really annoying that CR doesn't work!
@@TheGavinAsh What if you made a comp that is very large. This 300% size. Filled that with a sized up logo. And use the comp as the thing you swap out since a comp can be dropped in the media replacement zone?
@@ECAbrams I thought so too, but even making a 12K comp, it still comes out a little soft. The only way I can see fixing it is going through and scaling up the artboards in the dozens of AI files themselves, so they don't need AE to scale them. Maybe Adobe can implement CR for Media Replacement soon. Seems like it could be so useful!
This was so helpful! Is there any way to 'media replace' several compositions at once with several different photos?
Or a way to replace a folder of source files for several compositions with another source file?
So you're looking for a batch replacement concept? You might use an external file like a json or something to change the file path perhaps? Does that make sense? Or are you looking to drag in many items instead of having to drag in many one at a time?
@@ECAbrams Thank you for your response!
The second one is more so what I’m looking for. Basically, I’ll have one format for images to ‘float’ randomly in space from left to right and I’ll green screen myself in front of it. Then I plan to swap out the file sourcing all the photos whenever the topic changes, i.e. pictures of cows to pictures of dogs, etc.
I started using Essential Graphics for a few projects recently - and I wish I had seen this sooner!
That said, I have a question - Do you have any recommendations for keeping AE-based Essential Graphics lightweight, so that when you use them in abundance on a Premiere sequence, it doesn't blow out your computer's memory?
That's a good questions. It's a bit early for me to say definitively. I'm sure with more time I'll have some insight into the matter. For now I use the same principals we do inside Ae to keep things lean. Simplified expressions. Reducing references. Anything that can bring down the render time per frame will have the same yield in Pr.
Love the new Media Replacement option, but does anyone else suffer from ridiculously long render times when using the templates at MOGRTs in Pr? If I render out from AE it takes a fraction of the time. Is anyone else having that issue? I have a feeling I just made my template a little too clunkyily in AE and need to consolidate it a bit.
It can get chonky sometimes. I would definitely look into seeing what you can trim out. As I understand it, the more processes Pr has to "Check in" with Ae about the more intensive it will be on your system.
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i cant drag the imge in the EG
Interesting. What version of after Effects are you using? You may need to update.
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Where would I find an example of this?
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@@f1spout465 I'm not seeing anything animated on there. Was there a specific thing you wanted me to look at in their body of work?
@@ECAbrams sir I mean that type of human face animation with different angles of colours
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THIS all types of animation is possible with after effects and if Yes than how can do that
I want to see tutorial on this one sir
3d lightning
I can look into it. This often requires a 3rd party plugin to really have the kind of control people are after especially if you want to move a camera around lightning that appears to be frozen in time. 3d particle systems can help build these complex branching structures.
@@ECAbrams thnxxx sir i can try
Too much time taken up on this video with ads.
I'm sorry you feel that way. How long should sponsors messages be in your opinion?
@@ECAbrams May I suggest that you look at a few other youtuber's video's to answer that question. the longer the ad the more people you will drive away.
This was a little too fast for me. Maybe you're just getting used to the new function or you're excited.
This function has been requested since I started using the software. You better believe it's exciting to me.
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