Can you use After Effects templates in Premiere Pro? Yes, here's how

Can you use After Effects templates in Premiere Pro?

Yes, and there are two ways to do it. Which one fits depends on what you need to change once the graphic sits on the Premiere timeline.

The first is the route Adobe documents. You build the design in After Effects, then use the Essential Graphics panel to make a Motion Graphics template (.mogrt) with custom controls. The editor changes those controls in Premiere Pro. Adobe's help page on creating Motion Graphics templates is the reference for this.

The second needs no template format at all. You render the composition to a video file. Adobe's product page describes two ways to output from After Effects: the Render Queue inside the app, and Adobe Media Encoder outside it. You lose the controls, but the result plays in Premiere like any clip.

A third option suits some jobs. A transition on a cut, or a clip that moves from one look to another, can be built inside Premiere with its own keyframes, with no After Effects round trip. Our guide to making transitions in Premiere Pro without plugins covers the manual way.

A note on names: Adobe's product page now calls Premiere Pro "Adobe Premiere", the name for its family of desktop and mobile apps. This page keeps "Premiere Pro", which is also the name the After Effects help page uses.

How do you export a Motion Graphics template from After Effects?

You build the design in After Effects, make its custom controls in the Essential Graphics panel and export the result as a .mogrt. Adobe's help page on creating Motion Graphics templates is the reference. The text we checked on 3 November 2026 gave the page's summary but not its click-by-click steps, so the list below is an outline rather than exact menu paths. Keep Adobe's page open beside you, because the clicks can differ between versions.

1. Finish the design in After Effects. Get the layout and the motion right before you start on controls.
2. Open the Essential Graphics panel in After Effects. This is where a template's controls are made.
3. Decide what the editor may change. Typical choices are the words of a title or a brand colour. Make each of those a custom control in the Essential Graphics panel. Treat everything you leave out as fixed.
4. Name each control in plain words. "Headline" and "Accent colour" read faster in a busy edit than a layer name like "Text 03".
5. Export the composition as a Motion Graphics template (.mogrt).
6. Test it before you send it. Open it in Premiere Pro, change every control once and check that nothing breaks at the extremes, such as a long headline.

Keep the list of controls short. Every control is one more thing an editor has to read. If a change is needed only once, make it in After Effects before you export rather than adding a control for it.

If your template animates text, get the motion right in After Effects first. Our guide to text animation in Premiere Pro shows what you can still do on the Premiere side.

How do you use an After Effects template in Premiere Pro?

Bring the .mogrt into Premiere Pro, place it in your sequence and change the custom controls that were added in After Effects. That is the point of the format: the design stays as it was built, and the editor changes only what the controls allow.

The Premiere help pages we checked on 3 November 2026 did not include the steps for installing .mogrt files, so we don't print menu paths for that part here. Our guide to using Premiere Pro templates (.mogrt) walks through it.

Know where the edges are once the template is in. You change values through the controls, not by opening the composition. Any change outside those controls means a trip back to After Effects: change the motion, the layout or a layer that wasn't exposed, add a control if you'll need it again, and export a new .mogrt. Then swap the new file in for the old one in your sequence.

For a team, that has a practical result. One motion designer owns the After Effects comp, and several editors use the .mogrt. Agree on who exports new versions, and give each file a version in its name so no one cuts with last month's lower third.

What if the template has no controls you need?

Render it. After Effects outputs through the Render Queue inside the app, or through Adobe Media Encoder outside it. Either gives you a video file that you cut into Premiere like any other clip.

1. Open the template's project in After Effects and make your changes there: words, colours, timing.
2. Add the composition to the Render Queue, or send it to Adobe Media Encoder.
3. Pick your output settings. Our guide to After Effects export settings goes through the common choices.
4. Import the rendered file into your Premiere project and edit it into the sequence.

The trade-off is simple. The render is fixed, so every change means another trip to After Effects and another render. That is fine for an intro you make once. It gets slow for a lower third that changes every episode, and that is where a .mogrt earns its setup time.

Which route should you use for which job?

Use a .mogrt for graphics you reuse with new words or colours, a render for one-off animations, and a Premiere build for transitions and simple moves. The table sets them side by side.

A quick test helps. Ask how often the graphic changes and who changes it. If an editor changes it every week, make a .mogrt. If nobody changes it after delivery, render it. If it is a zoom, a push or a fade on a cut, you may not need After Effects at all: see our Premiere Pro zoom transition guide.

For a wider view of which jobs belong in each app, read After Effects vs Premiere Pro.

What do After Effects and Premiere Pro cost to run together?

On Adobe's US pages, each single app shows US$22.99/mo. Creative Cloud Pro, which includes both, shows US$34.99/mo for three months, then US$69.99/mo. To build a .mogrt you need After Effects, because the Essential Graphics panel that makes it is in After Effects.

Adobe says After Effects is only sold as part of a Creative Cloud membership, and Premiere has no perpetual licence. The After Effects single-app plan also lists Adobe Express Premium, Frame.io for Creative Cloud with 100GB of cloud storage, and 25 monthly generative credits.

Both apps have a free trial. On the After Effects trial page, Adobe says you have 14 days after the trial ends to cancel for a full refund. To cancel, go to your Adobe account page, find your plan, click Manage plans, then Cancel plan. On the Premiere trial page, there is no charge until the trial ends, and you can cancel up to 14 days after for a full refund. Promo prices change, so check the pages linked below before you buy.

Why won't my After Effects template work in Premiere Pro?

Most of the time the file is not a .mogrt, or the control you want was never added in After Effects. Work down this list before you rebuild anything.

1. Check the file type. A template from a marketplace may come as an After Effects project, a .mogrt, or both. A project opens in After Effects; from there you export a .mogrt or render a video. Our Premiere Pro template sites roundup compares the sites.
2. Look for the missing control in After Effects. Premiere shows only the controls added in the Essential Graphics panel. If the one you need isn't there, add it in After Effects and export the template again.
3. Read the template's requirements. If its description names third-party plugins, they are separate installs. Our guide to plugins, scripts and extensions explains which file is which and where each one goes.
4. Test on both apps' current versions. The Adobe pages we checked did not publish which versions open which .mogrt files. If a file fails, update both apps on the same account and try again.
5. Fall back to a render. When a deadline is close, render the comp from the Render Queue or Media Encoder and cut the video in. Fix the template afterwards.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it)

We make mouzeclick, so read this section as ours. It doesn't open After Effects templates in Premiere, and it doesn't replace a .mogrt that a motion designer built. It covers two jobs that people often bring After Effects work over for, inside Premiere Pro, on Windows and Mac.

mouzestate: from one look to another

mouzestate gives a clip a start look and an end look and writes the move as Premiere's own keyframes. It has 15 ready looks, offers ease, spring or bounce, and works on up to 40 clips at once. Because the result is Premiere's own keyframes, you can change it later with Premiere's own tools.

mouzetrans: transitions on cuts

mouzetrans puts 11 transitions on cuts: Zoom in, Zoom out, Whip, Spin, Slide push, Blur dissolve, Light flash, Shake hit, Stretch, Glitch jump and Fade to black.

Other parts that touch this job

• Search effects finds every installed effect and transition, audio and plug-ins included; Enter applies the one you pick. It runs on Windows and Mac.
• On Windows only, the Premiere Pro workspace's Easing lab (Graph Editor 2.0) bakes one of 44 ready curves into the keyframes of the properties you tick. Our Premiere Pro easing guide shows it.
• On Windows only, the After Effects workspace's Library has Send to Premiere and an asset library shared with the Premiere Pro workspace. See the two workspaces. The Mac app does not include the workspaces.

The mouzeclick app installs all of these as extensions; open them from Window › Extensions. The full list is on the extensions page, and the Mac install page covers Mac setup in four steps. The trial is 3 days with no card, and every Premiere Pro and After Effects tool works fully. Plans are in the pricing section.

Where After Effects is still the better pick: anything designed, such as a branded lower third, a logo reveal or a title with layered shapes. Build those in After Effects and hand them over as a .mogrt.

Questions people ask

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Adobe: creating Motion Graphics templates (After Effects help)
2. Adobe After Effects product page (prices, rendering, plan contents)
3. Adobe After Effects free trial and cancellation
4. Adobe Creative Cloud plans (India price for After Effects)
5. Adobe Premiere product page (name change, price, licensing)
6. Adobe Premiere free trial
7. Adobe Creative Cloud plans, video and audio (Premiere price)

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