Premiere Pro Templates Requirements Guidelines for Adobe Stock Artists

Premiere Pro Templates are designed to help speed up the video editing process. They include pre-made sequences of edits, transitions, color grading presets, and these templates are ideal for projects like promotional videos, documentaries, or personal projects where a consistent look and feel is required.

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Premiere Pro

Project File

  • Version: Premiere Pro 2022 or later
  • File Type: .prproj
  • Filesize: Under 2GB
  • Language: English only
  • Adobe Fonts only

Sequence Settings

Width & Height

List of acceptable resolutions and aspect ratios for sequences

Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)

Timebase: 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, or 60

Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)

Resolution: Full

Obsolete Filters and Effects

If using a PC workstation (meaning a computer that is not an iMac or Macbook) to create your Premiere Pro template, please do not use the following filters or effects as they have been removed from Apple’s new M1 & M2 versions of Adobe Premiere Pro:

  1. Antialias
  2. Auto Contrast
  3. Auto Levels
  4. Bend
  5. Camera View
  6. Change Color
  7. Change to Color
  8. Channel Mixer
  9. Color Balance HLS
  10. Color Balance RGB
  11. Equalize
  12. Fast Color Corrector
  13. Ghosting
  14. Horizontal Hold
  15. Leave Color
  16. Luma Corrector
  17. Luma Curve
  18. RGB Color Corrector
  19. RGB Curves
  20. Shadow/Highlight
  21. Three-Way Color Corrector
  22. Vertical Hold
  23. Video Limiter (legacy)

Project Structure

Organization:

  1. Organize the Project panel and folders with descriptive sequences/asset names
  2. Make it apparent to users what they can edit, what sequence is used to render, and what should remain untouched
  3. Use only A-Z, 0-9, hyphens, and underscores for file/sequence/asset names
  4. Create placeholders for users to swap with their media
  5. Placeholders need to be in their own nested sequences
  6. Video tracks need to be unlocked
  7. Premiere Pro template projects can include .aegraphic files for customization controls

Controls:

  1. Make sure controls are clearly labelled with the relevant function
  2. Provide sufficient controls for template customization (Ex: include color controls)
  3. Make sure controls and/or placeholder layers are not hidden

Effects:

  • No 3rd party effects/plugins
  • Please note: PC creators, be mindful of obsolete effects not available in M chip Macs

Maximum of 10 different style comps:

  1. Less is preferred
  2. Do not cross categories in a single template (Ex: Slideshows and Infographics)
  3. Cross-resolution in a single template is allowed only if the same style is represented between several resolutions (Ex: A template with the same style in HD, square, vertical, and 4k)

Please note: Multiple resolutions of the same style count towards the maximum of 10

Text and Assets

Text:

  • Do not use real personal names, Adobe, Adobe Apps, or other brand names in Project Panel, or text.

Assets:

1. All assets must be created by the artist

  • Do not use copyrighted logos, licensed stock content from other marketplaces, and/or free/CC0/public domain content
  • Use placeholders graphics in empty sequences or self-created content
  • People and locations require a model or property release
  • [ .aegraphic ] files in Pr template should be created as controls for end users to interact with the customizable components of the project in the Essential Graphics panel (EGP)
  • Please note: Do not install .mogrt files as stand-alone/individual projects, group in a sequence or Project panel of a .prproj file included in your submissions

2. Do not use EXR, open-source codecs, or Dynamic Link footage

3. No audio

4. Assets must comply with Adobe Stock's content requirements

5. Media must be linked and not missing when opened

6. Tutorial Files must be included with the project package

  • Files can be video or written documents in the required formats
  • Files must be placed in a separate folder - please refer to the Folder Structure Visual
  • Tutorial instructions must be relevant to and match the template
  • Provide detailed explanations for template functionality in tutorial instructions

Remember to

Delete Render Queue before saving

Collect Files for upload

Use checklist to QA template before submitting

Best Practices

Additional guidance and best practices for PR Templates, below:

1. Project Panel and Bin Structure

  • Be consistent in naming, capitalization, and organization
  • Hiding non-primary nested sequences is permissible
  • Make use of Description column
  • When using color labels in the project panel, please use colors that are easily distinguishable. Do: red, blue, yellow, green, etc. Don’t: yellow, dark yellow, or tan.
  • Controls: Encourage use of native essential graphics for text and basic shape animations with same standards as Ae templates and MOGRTs (Ex: text anchor points align with design and animation, shapes are pinned to the text so the design is consistent with user’s customizations).
EGP controls make it easy for users to interact with the template

2. Working Color Space:

  • Rec 709

3. Set Workspace back to Default Workspace

4. Assets

  • [ .mp4 ] as assets are discouraged due to their lack of quality
  • [ .mov ] with ProRes 422/4444 are encouraged instead

5. Tutorial Assets

  • Identify where to find the sequences to edit the template
  • Elaborate basic instructions on editing text layers, using controls, replacing media, etc.
  • Give more specific instructions if the template a little more complex
  • Provide clear render instructions

6. QA Template before Upload!

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Last Updated: 7/29/24

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