After Effects Templates
After Effects templates can help you take the application to the next level with overlays, lower thirds, logo reveals, title sequences, and more.
It’s a great way to get more from the application in a way that saves time and makes life easy for you. Whether you’re wanting to create an entirely new video or add something special to an existing project.
Our series covers how to use After Effects templates, where to find them, and collects some of our favorite templates for all manner of different uses and scenarios!
Latest After Effects Template Articles
20 May 2022
How to Use After Effects Templates
Adobe After Effects is a video-based tool that’s used to add elements to moving pictures and animations. Designers use it to create titles, intros, and transitions between video clips to enhance the production value of animations and video projects.
After Effects is one of those tools that’s packed with goodies, including templates that you can use to speed up project workflows. You can create your own templates or find and download them from other sources.
Here, we have a guide to using After Effects so you have everything you need to get started or better use the software.
11 May 2022
20+ Instagram Video Templates for After Effects (Stories + More)
Videos are the most effective way to promote products and businesses on Instagram. They not only drive more engagement but also allows you to stand out in user feeds.
According to recent stats, 62.7% of posts on Instagram business accounts are photos and only 16.3% are videos. Needless to say, you’ll have a much higher advantage over your competition if you make video content to promote your brand.
Making Instagram videos is also not that difficult. With the help of After Effects Instagram templates, you can easily make amazing-looking videos without effort.
This collection includes some of the best After Effects templates you can use to create Instagram videos and stories. All you need is a subscription to After Effects and you can edit these templates all by yourself. Have a look.
28 Apr 2022
20+ Typography Animation Templates for After Effects (Kinetic Text)
Creating typography with attractive animations, also known as kinetic typography, is an important part of every video project.
Kinetic text offers a way for you to give life to boring static 2D text and transform them into creative titles, intro scenes, lower thirds, and so much more.
Today, we bring you a collection of amazing examples that show how far you can go with typography animations using After Effects.
Here we showcase some of the best After Effects text animation templates.
13 Apr 2022
20+ Handwriting Text Templates for After Effects
When it comes to creating typography for elegant, romantic, and luxury videos, a handwriting text effect is the best approach for any project.
The handwriting design simply adds a very personalized look to your videos, especially for wedding, lifestyle, beauty, and even luxury brand videos that can’t be matched with any other typography design.
Adding a title or heading with a handwriting-style font is easy. But the tricky part is creating that handwriting animation to make the text come alive in your videos. This process takes some advanced skills.
But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. With the help of these handwriting animation templates for After Effects, you’ll be able to create stunning handwriting text effects for your videos without effort. Check them all out below.
After Effects templates can help you take your animation game to the next level. Use templates with this powerful piece of software to create overlays, lower thirds information, reveal logos or titles and more.
Templates are one of the best tools for both learning how to make the most of this piece of design software while working through projects quickly. Use them for anything from simple tasks to complex edits and animations.
What Is After Effects?
Adobe After Effects is software used to create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions. It’s an industry-standard tool for people that work with motion graphics and visual effects. If you can make it move After Effects can help do the rest.
After Effects is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite. It’s included with full packages or can be purchased a la carte.
Features that make After Effects a cool tool include the ability to remove objects from video clips, ability to animate shapes and logos and apply effects to almost any type of clip including VR videos.
What Are After Effects Templates?
After Effects templates are project files that have already been customized to add a specific effect or graphic to a video that’s already been created.
You can further customize After Effect templates to fit your needs by changing colors, fonts and images for a more seamless fit in your video projects.
If you want to save and use After Effects templates, you have two options:
- Create and save the desired effect yourself for later use and reuse.
- Download a premade template from another source, such as some of the collections below.
How to Use After Effects Templates
Using an After Effects template is fairly easy. (It might actually be harder to find just the right effect for your project.)
Most downloadable templates will come with instructions, but here’s the quick rundown for what to do once you have a file to use.
- Open the project and import files you want to add (save templates in a common folder for ease of use)
- Locate the compositions where you want to make changes
- Replace placeholder elements with your graphics or templates (this is where you do all the customizing)
- Repeat as needed for multiple layers of effects
