To do this, click the three lines in the top right hand corner of the effects & preset panel to bring up the panel’s menu. If the preset doesn’t show up, you may need to refresh the effects & preset panel. Try searching the Effects & Preset panel to see if your preset comes up, if it does: congratulations! You’ve just created a preset in After Effects and you can now apply it every time you need to replicate the tint/curves effect (or whatever effects/animation you saved). Now that the preset has been saved, it should appear in the Effects & Preset panel. Documents/Adobe/After Effects CC 2019/User Presets NOTE: replace (VERSION NUMBER) with the version of After Effects you are currently using, so if you’re still using After Effects CC 2019 for example then the file path would look something like this: Documents/Adobe/After Effects CC (VERSION NUMBER)/User Presets Documents/Adobe/After Effects CC (VERSION NUMBER)/User Presets/įor Windows users, the After Effects user presets folder is located in the same folder structure (you may need to change Documents for My Documents depending on your version of Windows):
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Make sure you’re saving the preset in the following location (depending on your operating system):įor Mac users, the After Effects user presets folder is located here: By default this should be the User Preset folder for the version of After Effects you’re using, but it might not be! So it’s important to check you save your preset in the correct place. This will open up a save window for you to create the preset. To actually create the preset, with everything selected, choose Animation > Save Animation Preset from the menu. For this example, we’ll make sure the Tint effect and the Curves effect are highlighted in the Effect controls panel. Now we need to select the various effects or animation that we want to include in our preset. Select the effects or animation you want to add to the preset So for this example, we’d add the tint effect and then add the curves effect as shown in the picture above. The first step then, is to add our effects to a layer or adjustment layer. Presets can also be created from keyframes you’ve applied to your layers as well which makes them incredibly flexible. It’s worth noting here that a preset can be created using any number of effects. In this example we’re going to create a preset that will apply the Tint effect and also a Curves effect that has a contrast curve already created like so:
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So here’s how to create a preset in After Effects: If you constantly find yourself applying the same effects, or animation, with the same settings and values, over and over again, then you should definitely start to create presets in after effects. After Effects presets are a great way to save time in your motion graphics workflow.
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