An animated GIF could do the trick. Been done since the beginning of.....like internet. @dacia Saenz

Hi Engelbert,

Unfortunately, .mp4 previews cannot be created when the mogrt is exported from AE at this time because h.264 is not currently an export option in AE itself.

There is an alternative, and its time-intensive, but you can export a preview of the AE Comp via AME, then unzip the .mogrt package and add the .mp4 to the zipped Mogrt package. The EGP in Premiere does support video previews.

Premiere Gal breaks it down here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6BGcUmn2o

Hoping to have better news soon.
Dacia

2 months to go and this topic will be in its 5th year. Yeah, still no live preview or alternative.

The short answer is that AE doesn't naitvely export .mp4 files (h.264) so we can't create a video preview at export :(

So the real request here is to bring back native h.264 exports back to AE.

My team has lots of MOGRT with similar details and without a quick and easy way to preview these we spend way to much time finding the correct one. Why isn't AE, Premiere or Bridge able to do this better? This is a 3-4 year old request

Yes! Please! I waste so much time dragging to timeline to see them that it makes mogrts almost useless as I often can't dedicate the time needed to do this slow arduous process.

Hi James,

You wrote "Alternatively, you can click on the Info (i) button in the lower right corner of the Mogrt thumbnail and you will have a little more playback control over the thumbnail in the info view."

Unfortunately the "playback control over the thumbnail" is poorly implemented since it is quite hidden and therefore not very discoverable. It should always be visible, for several reasons I explain here: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/42580615-make-the-blue-mogrt-thumbnail-selection-bar-more.

What do you guys thing about these two solutions to help us preview mogrts while we wait for proper video previews?

1. The ability to drag & drop multiple .mogrts to the Timeline at the same time.
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/42578794-drag-multiple-mogrts-to-timeline-at-once-to-make

2. If a user drags a .mogrt to the Timeline to test, and then deletes it, the .mogrt files that are automatically created in the "Motion Graphics Template Media" Bin in the Project Window and in the "Motion Graphics Template Media" folder next to the project file in Windows Explorer should also be deleted, to keep things tidier.
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/42579226-when-deleting-mogrt-from-timeline-also-delete-fr

To answer your questions Bronwyn:

What would you want the video preview in Premiere Pro to be?

1. Would you want it to be just one of those variations, like the default settings, made into a preview?
2. Would you want to generate your own preview video (ex: so you could show the variations within the mogrt) and attach it to the mogrt when you export it?
3. Something else?

Users should be given the option in AE to choose which video preview they want users to see by adjusting a mogrt's settings specifically for the purpose of creating a video preview (even if those settings won't be the defaults when exporting the mogrt). A "Generate video preview" button in the EG panel could take care of this.

If a user doesn't create a preview with specific settings before exporting the mogrt, then a preview video should be automatically created when exporting the mogrt, based on its current settings.

If the user exports an updated mogrt which already has an associated video preview file, a pop up window could simply ask the user: Update mogrt's video preview? [Yes] [No], with perhaps a "Do not ask again" checkbox, in case some users always want the answer to be the same.

How does that sound?

Thank you for your suggestions, Yan-Nick and others. As some of the previous comments have noted, Mogrts Exported from Pr can have a preview movie embedded within. Additionally, many (but not all) Stock Ae mogrts have preview movies which you can see in the Essential Graphics Panel > Browse tab within PrPro. Make sure you click on the Mogrt thumbnail first and wait a second for the preview to load. Alternatively, you can click on the Info (i) button in the lower right corner of the Mogrt thumbnail and you will have a little more playback control over the thumbnail in the info view.

As for preview movies embedded into Ae mogrts like what you can do with Pr mogrts, that is an open feature request that we would like to implement someday if possible. I'm going to merge some similar suggestions into this one so that votes and comments count in one place.

How do we still NOT have MOGRT previews on all MOGRTs????

Mogart files are great and are supposed to be there to help speed up your workflow, but when you can't preview them and have to drag the file onto the timeline to preview, it becomes more frustrating.

So live preview ONLY works when mogrts are authored IN Premiere with the additional step of exporting "Video Thumbnail"?

YES!!!!! And allow live preview for ALL mogrts, or provide us a method to create a preview.

I just updated and was disappointed to not have moving previews of ALL mogrts. That is what I understood from you in Vegas. We need motion previews!!

Thanks for the info! Quick question - let's say you make a Motion Graphics template in Ae that has multiple variations of an animation or layout, controlled via expressions with a checkbox or slider. What would you want the video preview in Premiere Pro to be?

1. Would you want it to be just one of those variations, like the default settings, made into a preview?
2. Would you want to generate your own preview video (ex: so you could show the variations within the mogrt) and attach it to the mogrt when you export it?
3. Something else?

You are correct. Just bought Type Builder and installed. Great selection, but I can't see the motion like you can in Type Builder for AE. Thanks!

Hi Doug, this is possible in Premiere Pro v12.1 for Motion Graphics templates that were authored in Premiere Pro (Export Motion Graphics template > Include video thumbnail) or licensed from Adobe Stock within the Essential Graphics panel.

We are tracking this as a request for mogrts that are designed in After Effects, is that your use case?

Thanks,
Bronwyn