In this article, we will go over what our template curators have found to be the most common issues when reviewing Premiere Pro templates. We will present the best solutions and practices to get your template accepted to our catalog as fast as possible.

Preview Video

File Structure

Project Structure

Color Controllers

Missing Elements from Color Controllers

Missing Files

Missing Font Links

Previews Software Versions

Package Size

Description, tags and other info

The preview video should accurately reflect what your template can achieve, showing exactly how the product works and what the project actually contains. Avoid overselling or unrealistic expectations as this can be especially confusing for our users.

The file structure should follow the example package, found on our upload rules page:

https://artists.motionarray.com/en/articles/9117462-upload-rules-motion-array-artists

The project structure needs to be exactly the same as the example project, found on our upload rules page. This consistency is crucial for our users, helping them to easily navigate your template.

Why do we request placeholders? Users often have little to no experience with the software. Without a clear boundary of the amount of text/logo/media accepted in the placeholder, users begin to get very unexpected results**. The idea is not to limit the space of the placeholder, the idea is to make sure that no matter what the user puts in that space, it works 100% of the time. **There is obviously some room for flexibility with small text in large text placeholders but it must add to the design or offer some kind of functionality and not affect the template in any undesired way.

Also, please know that none of the aforementioned placeholders should have anything other than temporary media. Text and shapes should be in their respective sub-sequences, and any animation should be done with keyframes on the subsequences, not the placeholder layers themselves.

How to test your text/logo/media placeholders:

2. Make sure the text is not overlapping other elements where it should not be and that it’s fully visible without being masked/matted out.

3. Make sure the logo/media placeholder accurately represents the amount of logo/media we see in the final composition, and that the overall design has not been broken and still “looks” good.

4. Please leave the text we see in the preview movie inside of the text placeholders and size the text placeholder compositions accordingly. Do not change the text to Text 01,02,03 - Your Text 01.02.03 etc. Users should be able to recreate what they see in the preview movie at the same size and in the same position without the need to edit and adjust keyframes within a scene or text composition sizes etc.

Please know we are no longer approving Premiere Pro templates that utilize the legacy text editor. Please use Premiere 2017, 2018, 2019 and onwards and use the new text tool. The text should be inside their own nests with no keyframes for easy editing.

5. When it comes to Audio, make sure that the placeholder nests have audio tracks that are also in the final sequence. If the customer uses video (with audio track) in Media Placeholders, that audio needs to be heard in the final render:

6. We cannot approve hybrid projects that utilize .mogrts, .aegraphics, or similar imported content from AE. PP templates must be purely .prproj. Motion Graphic templates are .mogrt. You may resubmit the text as a .mogrt to Motion Graphic Templates category.

Every template should feature color controller options when it is applicable. Users like to have the ability to customize the template to match their own unique brand and style. The color controllers should live in a subfolder in the 01. Edit Placeholders folder and should be called “Color”.

Our curators may send you a “Needs Work” request if they feel your project has too many controller options that could be consolidated for a better user experience.
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Please ensure all of the color controllers are working as intended and are applied to relevant elements within the project. You can check this by changing all of the color controller options individually to a different color that is not featured in your project. Then slowly scrubbing through the timeline adding missing elements that our users might want to edit the color of.

Once you finished working on your template, you should collect all of the assets used in your project using the following method:

File → Project Manager→ Select all Sequences

→ Select Destination Path→ OK

This ensures that there are no missing files in the project you submit to the site.

If you have multiple sequences, go to the top of the list and select the first one, move to the end of the list, hold shift and select the last one. This way you can select them all with ease.

Collecting your project will copy and move all files from the project to a new location, except for the fonts used. You can see what fonts were used in the template by going to “Graphics and Titles” and selecting “Replace Fonts in Project…”

It is important that you submit your template in the version it was created in, as certain effects are not available between different versions and third-party plugins might not work properly or work a all.Keep in mind that most of our users are using the latest versions.

Keep your package sizes to a minimum by converting your assets into an .mp4 or .mov files with h.264 or ProRes compression. This also helps our users who have slower internet connections to download your package.

Customers often have slower or older machines and will ask for support or refunds if they come across a slow or resource heavy template, please make sure to do everything you can to make the project as light and streamlined as possible.

Poor description and tagging will slow down the review process as we will have to rewrite it.

Questions? Feel free to reach out! Email us at content@motionarray.com