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3 Top Video Templates for New Years 2020
Ring in the New Year with these video templates! The start of a new decade is just around the corner and making a celebratory video. And with the help of a template for Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Final Cut Pro, you can create them in no time. Just add your details and you're ready to share.
These New Year's 2020 video templates are perfect for all of the following:
- Promote your new product launch in the New Year
- Recap your team's accomplishments in the prior year and focus on success stories
- Celebrate ringing in an entirely new decade by reviewing the last decade's top moments
All of these templates are available with the flat-rate subscription from Envato Elements. Let's look at three of the best.
Top Video Templates for New Years 2020
1. New Year Diamond Countdown (After Effects)
Perfect for After Effects users, this is a classy template to start the New Year. It includes a countdown you could even use to get ready for the ball drop. Use it in combination with your images and video footage to start the year with a flash.
2. Christmas and New Year Opener 2020 (Adobe Premiere)
Double your value with this template for Adobe Premiere. Whether you're celebrating Christmas or the New Year, this template has graphics and assets that work beautifully for both. Customize text easily and use the animations to start your celebration.
3. New Year Countdown 2020 (Apple Motion)
If you're an Apple Motion and Final Cut Pro user, this template is the one for you. It's a 1080P file that has everything you need to set the stage for a great new year. Adjust the countdown timer easily plus adjust the text with just a few clicks!
The Best Source for Video Templates for New Years (With Unlimited Downloads)
All of the templates that you saw in this tutorial come from Envato Elements, an all-you-can-download source for creatives.
With a subscription to Envato Elements, you unlock everything. That includes stock photos, graphics, and footage to complement your production perfectly.
Don't spend time producing a video - there's a New Year to celebrate! Instead, start with a template and just tweak the specifics.
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How to Create a Template With Premiere Pro for the Essential Graphics Panel
There’s no doubt that the real power of motion graphics lies in After Effects, but it’s not always convenient to use, or you might not feel confident enough to use it to its full potential. The Essential Graphics Panel lets you edit certain graphic elements of your project in Premiere Pro without having to flip back and forth to After Effects.
The Essential Graphics Panel is perfect for simpler motion graphics. You can even make your own templates within Premiere Pro, letting you can easily replicate and edit preferred styles across projects – in this tutorial we'll take a quick and simple look at how you can do that.
How to Create a Template for the Essential Graphics Panel With Premiere Pro
A note before we get started – you can’t export graphic templates in Premiere Pro that have been created in After Effects as .mogrt files, so make sure that, if you want to export your Premiere Pro template for use in future, you do everything within Premiere Pro.
OK, let's start. Open your Essential Graphics Panel: Window > Essential Graphics.
The Browse tab is to look through .mogrt files both locally on your computer, and via Adobe Stock. The Edit tab is where you’ll work on layers, keyframes and other properties for your template.
If you’re familiar with other Adobe graphic software, like Photoshop, then the layout will feel more instinctive to you – it works on a ‘layers’ premise – when you create a new layer, that gets added to your timeline. You can create graphic elements individually and then export them as .mogrt files.
Add Text
Let’s assume we’re creating some titles, and you want to add text. Use the Type tool as you would usually or you can always choose New Layer > Text in the Graphics menu.
Clicking on your image will start the text. If you hold the click and then pull (drag), then you can create a box which the text will then automatically stay within.
With the Selection Tool you can then adjust the text layers, change anchor points, scale, dimensions and so on.
An Easy Way to Keep Text Styles Consistent: Master Text
As a slight segue, if you’re creating titles, or something branded, then chances are you want that to look the same across all your projects anyway. This is where you’ll find Master Styles really useful.
You might, for example, be making a YouTube broadcast regularly and you want the same style of graphics across every video, for continuity. Once you have a text style how you want it, select the text layer and under Essential Graphics, click on Master Styles and select Create New Master Text Style from the drop-down menu.
Save it as something appropriate, like Main Title. The next time you come to make the title for a future broadcast, you can select Master Styles and your ‘Main Title’ will be there – apply it to your text to immediately replicate the look you’ve previously tuned. You can then do the same with any subtitles, credits and so on.
Add Movement
If you're adding movement to your text, then you'll need to add keyframes to your timeline, which mark the beginning and end of the transition. I'll demonstrate with a simple 'a to b' movement.
- First keyframe (start of movement)
- Timeline Marker that you will drag to set the duration of movement
- Second keyframe (end of movement)
If you click on the diamond shape to the far right in the circle above, that will add a keyframe to your timeline (1.) or, alternatively, when you adjust the position numbers (circled) a keyframe will appear where the timeline marker (2.) is set. The Position numbers (like coordinates) will let you create movement up, down, left and right.
Here's how that movement above would look:
The same method applies to other movement like scale, rotation and so on, just be sure that the stopwatch icon to the left of the thing you want to make changes to, is highlighted (lit blue).
Export Your Template
Once you’re finished and you’d like keep your work as a template to use across future projects, simply right-click on your timeline and hit Export as Motion Graphics Template, or alternatively, select Graphics > Export Motion Graphics Template. This should export your layers, effects and any keyframes.
And that's it, you've made a handy motion graphics template for Premiere pro.
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10 Top Instagram Video Templates for FCPX
Instagram is a great way to showcase your work, tease your ongoing projects and instantly connect with your followers. From Stories, IGTV, and posting directly to your profile, Instagram has expanded the ways you can share your content on their platform.
In this round up we take a look at ten favourite video templates for Final Cut Pro X. The talented creators at Envato Elements and Envato Market have produced some wonderful templates to help you with your projects, excite and connect with you existing followers, helping you reach new people and get to your next milestone.
Top Instagram Templates from Envato Elements
Envato Elements is a powerful resource, saving you time while improving the quality of your projects with a giant catalogue of video templates, stock video, and music.
1. Instagram Stories Collection
With Instagram Stories Collection you’ll be get your message across using a large range of templates that are professional and pleasing to the eye. Customize your stories and add appealing ways to direct attention. Whether you are selling your new shirt designs or letting your fans know about your upcoming event, this collection is a great way to engage your audience.
2. Instagram Stories V.5
This is a set of 30 awesome Instagram stories templates. With a clean and striking minimal design, Instagram Stories V.5 will draw attention and engage followers with your crafted content. Easily change the placeholders and well as the colours will few clicks. This template comes with an easy to understand tutorial!
3. Creative Titles
Creative Titles pack is made with content creators in mind. Well organized, stylish, with smooth animation and wide range of customization that allows you to get the look you’re after.
4. Social Media Logo
A simple and direct logo for your Instagram account. Check out the preview to see for yourself:
5. Modern Opener
This opener is made for those who love Instagram. There are tons of text and media placeholders, resolutions for square (600x600, 1080,1080) and IGTV and you’ll be able to use any font you wish. A great way to tease your upcoming projects.
6. The Ultimate Story Pack
If you use Instagram as a platform to sell your brand and reach more people, this is your complete Story kit, made with vertical stories in mind. These highly engaging and easily customizable elements will give your stories a huge edge to help separate yourself from the and crowd, letting you to connect with more people!
7. Typography Scenes, Lower Thirds ,YouTube Kit and Shape Transitions
A mouthful of a name, this is a giant utility pack for social media users is a essentially a jack knife of templates, and useful for a variety of effects you’d like to accomplish from wonderful typography, motion graphics, to lower thirds that are easily customizable.
8. Glitch Modern Opener
Similar to Modern Opener mentioned earlier on this list, this opener is made for those who love instagram. There are tons of text and media placeholders, resolutions for square (600x600, 1080,1080) and IGTV and you’ll be able to use any font you wish. All with a well-made RGB split and glitch layer. A helpful video tutorial will help get you set up.
9. Fast Typo Opener
A unique and fun typography opener for Final Cut with IGTV resolution. There are pliantly of placeholders for your text and media, you’ll be able to use any font and use effect controls to tweak things to your liking.
10. FCPX Zoom Transitions
This transitions pack is a unique style zoom transitions with adjustable 3D glitch effect! The transitions work with a simple drag-and-drop method and all of the Instagram resolutions. A great feature is that all of the transitions included can be mixed together to reach different kind of animation.
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How to Create a Wrapped Ribbon Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Let's take a look at how to make a red ribbon completely from scratch to bring awareness to World AIDS Day!
We will be creating our own awareness ribbon completely from scratch—no drawing skills needed!
What You'll Need
You'll need the following resources in order to complete this project:
Find more resources on Envato Elements!
1. How to Create an Out-of-Focus Effect
First, we will start by creating a simple sunset background, but with a twist! To bring all of the focus onto our subject, we are going to blur the background.
Step 1
Place your Sky background onto a 3095 x 4637 px canvas.
Enlarge and slant it so that it looks similar to what you see below.
Step 2
Go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Field Blur and add a heavy blur and bokeh effect.
Field Blur Settings
- Blur: 50
- Light Bokeh 30%
- Bokeh Color: 30%
Step 3
Add a Color Lookup adjustment layer above the sky layer.
Color Lookup Settings
- 3DLUT File: Filmstock
- Mode: Soft Light
- Opacity: 42%
Step 4
Add a second Color Lookup adjustment layer above the previous layer.
Color Lookup Settings
- 3DLUT File: 3Stripe
- Opacity: 100%
Step 5
Finish up the background by adding a Brightness/Contrast layer above all previous layers.
Brightness/Contrast Settings
- Brightness: 0
- Contrast: 24
Group all of your background layers, naming the group "BG" for "background."
2. How to Extract Curly Hair
Next, let's work on our model's curly hair! Here is my favorite way of extracting black hair that is on a light-colored or white background. It's both fast and efficient.
Step 1
Extract your model using your preferred method. Mine is the Pen Tool, but any method will work.
Extract everything but the hair! If you have a layer mask on your subject after extracting their body, go ahead and Right Click > Apply Layer Mask.
Step 2
Duplicate the subject and set their layer mode to Multiply.
Hide the original subject for now.
Step 3
Go to Image > Adjustments > Black & White to turn the image greyscale.
Step 4
Go to Image > Adjustments > levels and increase the contrast of the image. We want to darken the hair while lightening the background.
Levels Settings
Step 5
Add a Layer Mask to the black and white duplicate, and mask out whatever is left visible from the background and the subject's body.
Step 6
Unhide the original subject.
Add a Layer Mask to the subject and mask out the outer edge of the hair. Focus on any areas that have the original blue background in it.
Step 7
Duplicate the black and white hair layer.
Invert the duplicate by hitting Control-I and then set the layer mode to Screen.
Flip the layer horizontally and enlarge it slightly to give the appearance of back-lit hair.
Add a small about of white behind the hair using a large, soft, white, round brush if you want to add even more glow!
3. How to Light a Subject
Now we are moving on to lighting the subject so that she better fits in with her environment.
Step 1
Create and clip a Brightness/Contrast layer into the subject.
Brightness/Contrast Settings
- Brightness: 13
Step 2
Create and clip a new layer into your subject.
Use a small 1-3px soft round Brush to paint highlights along the edges of the body and clothes.
Step 3
Create and clip another new layer into the subject, setting it to Soft Light.
Increate the subject's highlights and shadows by painting white and black on the subject. Use white on the highlights and black on the shadows.
Keep your Brush soft and its Flow low at around 10%.
Bring down the Opacity of the layer if needed!
Step 4
Create and clip another new layer into the subject, setting it to Overlay.
Increase the highlights of the hair by painting white on the lighter sections of the curls. Again, make sure to keep your brush's Flow nice and low.
Use Blend If to keep the highlights out of the shadows!
Layer Blend If Settings
Step 5
Create and clip one last new layer into the subject, setting it to Soft Light.
Create a final wash of light on the subject using a very large white Brush, focusing on the shirt, body, and bag.
Group all of your subject and hair layers into a group named "Model".
4. How to Create a Ribbon in Photoshop
Now, on to the large red ribbon!
Step 1
Create a new layer above all other layers, and sketch out your ribbon. This does not need to look good or be perfect! You just need to know the general shape and flow.
I will be using this awareness ribbon as a reference for the main portion of my ribbon.
Step 2
Use the Pen Tool set to Shape and trace out a portion of your ribbon. Focus on a single small section at a time.
Step 3
Repeat this step until you have a few sections done, refining the shapes as you go.
If a piece of ribbon is behind another piece of ribbon, you can darken the color to help differentiate the two pieces.
Turn the sketch layer on and off as you go to help you see your design more clearly.
Step 4
Now that we have a couple of sections done, let's add some lighting.
Create and clip a new layer into a section of the ribbon, bringing its Opacity down to 50%.
Paint shadows onto your ribbon using a soft, round brush set to a darker version of the color of your ribbon—in this case, a dark red #400000.
Adjust the Opacity as needed, and set your brush to a low Flow rate to help you control the intensity of the shadows. You don't want them too dark!
Step 5
Repeat the step above, but this time use white to add highlights!
You can also try using a lighter version of the color of your ribbon if white ends up looking too washed out. Remember to build your lighting slowly, layering it on little by little.
Look at references of ribbon to help you get an idea of where to place your lighting and shadows.
Step 6
Repeat the steps above until you are happy and finished with your ribbon!
Step 7
To create the effect that the ribbon is weaving through or around a subject, you will want to use layer masks!
Add a layer mask to the section of the ribbon that will be behind an object—in this case, it's the dark section of ribbon closest to the subject's arm.
Use the Pen Tool, set to Path, to create a path around the subject's arm. Once finished, Right-Click > Make Selection.
Use a Brush set to black to mask out that section of the arm, giving the appearance that the ribbon is sitting behind the arm!
Step 8
If you want to create the appearance that the ribbon is behind your subject, it's even easier!
Add a Layer Mask to the section of ribbon that you'd like to be behind the subject.
Go into the "Model" group and then Control-Click on the subject layer. This will create a selection on the shape of the subject.
Use a black Brush to mask out the areas that you want to be behind your subject. In this case, it's the arm, stomach, and shirt area.
Add shadows onto the parts of the ribbon that are directly behind the subject.
Do this on as many sections as needed! Group all of your ribbon sections into a group named "Ribbon."
Step 9
Create a new layer below your ribbon, setting it to Multiply.
Paint in shadows wherever needed. Use a brush with a very low Flow, and set to a darker version of the color you are painting on. Here, it's the subject's skin, and I used a dark brown #301209.
Bring down the layer's Opacity if needed.
5. How to Create a Vibrant Color Grade
Finally, let's finish everything up by adding a bright and vibrant color grade!
Step 1
First, let's add our final lighting effects.
Create a new layer and clip it into your subject, above all other layers inside the subject, setting it to Soft Light.
With a large, soft, round Brush, paint white all around the subject's edges.
Keep your brush's Flow rate low to build up the light slowly, and lower the layer's Opacity if needed!
Step 2
Repeat the above step with a new layer set to Overlay to further enhance the lighting around the body.
Step 3
Create and clip a new layer into the subject, setting it to Soft Light.
With a large, soft, round Brush, paint black inside the subject, focusing on the areas where the ribbon passes over the body.
Step 4
Repeat the above steps on the ribbon!
Step 5
Finish up the lighting by creating a new layer above all current layers and setting it to Screen.
Using a very large, soft, round Brush, set to pale orange #ffa472 and with a very low Flow rate, paint a giant orb of light towards the right side of the image.
Paint a smaller amount to the left of the subject's face.
Bring down the layer's Opacity if needed.
Step 6
Add a Color Lookup adjustment layer above all other layers.
Color Lookup Settings
- 3DLUT File: Filmstock
- Opacity: 32%
Step 7
Finally, add a Selective Color adjustment layer above all other layers.
Selective Color Settings
Reds
- Cyan: -37%
- Magenta: +14%
- Yellow: +10%
- Black: 0
Yellows
- Cyan: -100%
- Magenta: -40%
- Yellow: +26%
- Black: 0
Cyan
- Cyan: +44%
- Magenta: 0
- Yellow: -24%
- Black: 0
Blue
- Cyan: +35%
- Magenta: +16%
- Yellow: -35%
- Black: 0
Magenta
- Cyan: -40%
- Magenta: +72%
- Yellow: -56%
- Black: +31%
White
- Cyan: +33%
- Magenta: -10%
- Yellow: -22%
- Black: 0
Blacks
- Cyan: -19%
- Magenta:-4%
- Yellow: -15%
- Black: 0
We've Done It!
There you have it! A way to create a custom ribbon, no drawing skills needed! And just in time to bring awareness to World AIDS Day! This technique can be used to create any kind of ribbon, including for other awareness days, making it the perfect way to show your love and support!
So as always, keep experimenting with different techniques and practicing. Don't forget to post your version below, along with any questions, comments, or critiques!
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