Welcome the the Adobe Stock Video Template Artist Guidelines homepage.
Our goal is to provide the guidance necessary for you to become a successful artist on Adobe Stock for Video templates. Please click on the buttons in the body of this page to find out more about how your templates should be created, organized and submitted to maximize your success with Adobe Stock.
Guidelines and Submission Standards
This section provides guidance on the contributor portal upload and submission workflow, metadata and category requirements.
Template Type-Specific Requirements
This section is an additional deep dive into the three template types: After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Motion Graphic templates.
Content Guidelines and Insights
This section provides content specific guidance on rejection reasons, assets and text usage, GenAI use in template submissions, and technical implications for templates and thumbnails and preview videos.
Additional Resources and Tools
This section provides auto download tools, checklists by template type, and additional documentation for template creation.
How-To Guides & Best Practices
This section provides to inform and educate new and existing contributors with best practices, how-to guides, and technical manuals for deeper dives into video templates.
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Latest Updates
July 30, 2024
Updates to Contributor Handbook:
- TBD
November 30, 2023
After Effects Pre-Flight Script available for download here. Use this script to check your AE Templates before you submit them. Below are the tasks the script performs:
- Deletes the render queue items
- Changes the expressions engine to Javascript
- Changes the resolution to Full
- Changes the workspace to Default
- Updates time display from frames to timecode
- Deletes all ruler guides
October 3, 2023
- Contributor portal now open.
- After Effects and Premiere Pro Templates now accepted.
December 22, 2022
- Guidelines have changed for 2023. Many technical and submission guidelines have been reduced; please review Technical Requirements and Submission Requirements.
- A Guidelines Checklist PDF is available to download
- 2023 Metadata sheet is available is available to download
April 11, 2022
- Submission Guidelines - Clarified following: Naming MoGRTs should be descriptive of your template and include the category it is in. Use 1-3 descriptors. Template names submitted within a calendar year must be unique or they will fail upload.
- Metadata Guidelines - 2022 Metadata Sheet is now available. Please be sure to continue to use Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice to edit the sheet.
February 7, 2022
- Artist FAQ - Feedback process changed to 3 weeks to hear from the Stock Team.
- Category Requirements - Individual Category Requirements for most categories have been reduced to only the Overall Requirements (except Lower Thirds, Social Media, and Infographics). This page now serves as Category Examples to explain each MoGRT category type and what controls can be valuable to your MoGRT. New video examples, including Media Replacement, were added.
- Metadata Guidelines - Expanded information about automated keywords, removed per-category imagery and descriptions, updated screenshots. 2022 Metadata sheet coming soon.
- Submission Guidelines - Payment information removed and placed in Artist FAQ. Feedback process changed to 3 weeks to hear from the Stock Team.
- Technical Guidelines - Guidelines pertaining to using less than 10 text inputs and 10 Media Replacement inputs have been added. Part II: Preview Media section made more consistent
- Homepage - Older page update information removed. New updates added. Category Requirements changed to Category Examples. 2022 Creative Brief link moved to Creative Brief
January 12, 2022
- Technical Requirements - Oldest version of After Effects to be able to be used to make MoGRTs is After Effects 2021 version 18.1.
- Submission Guidelines - Export dialog graphic updated. Batching graphics updated for clarity. Example dates updated to 2022.
- Media Replacement - New Youtube videos embedded.
April 14, 2021
- Media Replacement page has been updated with new information about Default Scaling with the After Effects 18.1 update.
March 29, 2021
- Media Replacement page has been added to this Homepage. Submissions are welcome starting April 1, 2021.
- MoGRT Optimization has been added to this Homepage.
- Metadata Requirements have been updated with Media Replacement information.
December 21, 2020
Artist FAQ has been updated with the following information:
- How long does a review take? In general, you should hear back from us within 2 week, but this can be extended due to the amount of templates queued before your batch, holidays, etc.
- Are there examples of acceptable Motion Graphics templates? We've put together these free project files to teach technical best practices, optimal Essential Graphics Panel set-up, useful expressions, and ideal user experience for MoGRTS: Download Educational Templates.
- Can I use videos or images in my preview video and thumbnail image? Yes, as long as it is licensed from a stock site. We encourage use of the Adobe Stock free collection.
Category Requirements has been updated with the following information:
- Requirements for Lower Thirds, Title Overlays, & Transitions have been reduced from a maximum to 5 from 10
Expressions Guide has been updated with the following information
- Dropdown Menu Control expressions
- Expressions standardized across the page
Technical Requirements has been updated with the following information:
- Information standardized and bolded for clarity
- Use Drop Down Menus instead of sliders for style selection. Be sure to rename each index descriptively.
- Text Best Practices: Avoid using all-caps cursive text; Add Letter Spacing controls when using cursive text; Add Line Spacing controls for all text inputs.
Header Image: Gradient Pitch Deck Slides by Wavebreak Media
Last Updated: 2/14/23