How to upgrade your motion graphics skills from online video editors to After Effect?

Creating engaging videos has become a fierce competition in advertising, marketing, media, and content production. You need to produce the best videos to increase viewers of your content on YouTube and popular social networks. Nowadays, video is critical for all businesses and industries. It would help make more unique videos very fast and high quality with the lowest price to win the competition. Motion graphics skills help you to make the most valuable kind of video.

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After-Effects Templates vs. Online Platforms

Millions of amateur video content creators use online tools and mobile apps to start their businesses. But after a while, they realize they cannot make innovative, professional, and unique videos with these tools. Online video editors have some cliché that millions of people have used the same templates without enough flexibility. As a result, your work with these tools will be repetitive and boring.

But you can use After Effects to experience an excellent flexible tool. There are hundreds of thousands of After Effects templates. You can easily use or customize them to be a new and unique movie.

How to step forward for motion graphics skills?

1. Learn the basics of Adobe After Effects

It’s enough to learn the principles of the software if you want to use After Effects templates.

This application provides a wide range of tools and tricks, from extremely easy to advance. Users can use it as a simple movie maker or even customize actions utilizing a kind of coding called expression.

Fortunately, the teams that make the templates for you are skilled and usually include the best graphic designers, professional After Effects specialists, experienced animators, and expert programmers. They provide a platform for all the advanced features to use efficiently. This eliminates the need to learn all the advanced features at the beginning.

2. Raise your skills using the templates tutorials

If you purchase the template from a reputable website like videohive.net or elements.envato.com, there is always a complete tutorial on using the package that teaches you how to use its features. These instructions help you learn more about After Effects during your projects quickly. It is a shortcut to learning advanced After Effects and upgrading motion graphics skills without long-term courses.

Here is a sample of these tutorials:

3. Follow our following tutorials

Subscribe to dreamexpander.com and its YouTube channel to learn the following tutorials. We will teach you special skills that you cannot usually find on other websites. Most educational media teach software techniques. But we try to teach you the strategies for success in producing motion graphics and the art of video making.

See some examples of these tutorials below:

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How to choose a proper After Effects template?

There are many variations of the After Effects templates. Choosing a suitable template increases your project’s quality and can give you an idea for the script. Templates that are a complete package provide you with various elements to create different parts of your motion graphics.

The explainer is a term that uses for a type of template. They usually contained animated characters, locations, titles, lower thirds, icons, and other elements. I suggest browsing the explainer before writing the script for your motion graphic to know what materials you have. Then while writing the script, try to separate it into some short scenes. Select a location for each one and then put some related characters in it.

Here are two examples of explainers created with the Dream Expander team. The first one has a 2D style, and the other is designed for 3D motion graphics.

Story Maker Explainer Toolkit

Briskland, Professional 3D Explainer Toolkit

Content maker templates can help you create daily posts for Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other social media. They usually provide you with some mockups to create animated scenes. These scenes have some text and media placeholders. To create customized content, you can write your text and put your images and videos on the placeholders.

Here is an example of the content maker that Dream Expander created:

Business Content Maker

Video overlay elements are the other type of template. They usually contain titles, lower thirds, icons, transitions, and YouTube elements like subscribe button and other elements designed to decorate your videos.

Here is an example of these templates that the Dream Expander team designed for beauty videos:

Retro Beauty Elements Pack

Advanced level

After you have mastered working with templates and editing them, you can modify them beyond the template creators’ design. Like a driver who used only to drive but now intends to look at his car engine and update it and, for example, add a few cylinders to the machine!

Template designers hide some of the tools they have used to make the template to help it look cleaner and more straightforward. This act is called Shy. You can make them Unshy and start modifying them.

You need to upgrade your motion graphics skills to a high level for these advanced edits and learn more advanced tricks. Also, you can quickly get these tips on YouTube, education packages, and the Adobe help center. We will post these tutorials on the Dream Expander website.

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