Video templates requirements

Video templates — including Adobe After Effects templates, Adobe Premiere Pro templates, and Motion Graphics templates — are useful assets for customers. For novice users, these templates provide high-quality, ready-made content to help their creative endeavors shine. For seasoned creatives, video templates save time, provide inspiration, and expose new workflows. Video templates also showcase best practices, so users can effectively explore options and build upon their skills.

Interested in contributing video templates? Review our full guidelines and send us your portfolio by filling out this form. We only need one entry per applicant and will contact selected candidates on an individual basis. If you do not hear back immediately, please do not resubmit the form. We will follow up if we have any questions about your application.

Jump-start your creativity with templates for design and video apps. If you’d like to see examples of files that were correctly configured for acceptance, check out these free video templates. For more inspiration, check out these paid video templates for our collection.

Note: The video templates program at Adobe Stock is invitation only.

• Titles: Simple text and graphics on an alpha background (to provide transparency) and/or full-screen graphics with text and showstopping backgrounds.
• Lower thirds: Graphic overlays with text in the lower left, center, or right part of the screen.
• Logo reveals: Short intro animations for logos.
• Motion effects: Animated graphics that enhance video clips (e.g., fire, zaps, smoke, or lens flares).
• Transitions: Short animations that dynamically move one video clip to another with options to change direction, or multiple animation styles.
• Slideshows: Presentations of images or videos that transition in and out in a visually interesting way to tell a mini story.
• Backgrounds: Showstopping animated graphics, often loop-able, that do not feature text.
• Motion overlays: Stylized filters or frames that are overlaid on top of footage.
• Infographics: Animations that show data, like circle charts, bar charts, locations, and more.

Adobe Stock Video Template Requirements & Guidelines

Video templates must meet certain requirements and guidelines to be accepted into our collection. Please review the following guidelines for essential information:

• Submission Guidelines
• Uploading Video Templates
• Metadata Requirements
• Category Requirements

App-specific template Requirements

• Motion Graphics Template Requirements

• After Effects Template Requirements

• Premiere Pro Template Requirements

General Best Practices  

• Organize and label templates clearly so customers understand how to customize.

• Submit seasonal templates 2-3 months prior to event (i.e. submit December holiday templates in September).

• Keep your templates evergreen by using 20XX instead of a specific year (i.e. 2025).

Adobe Stock Video Templates File Submission Requirements  

For each template submission, please provide a packaged zip file with the following three elements for each template type per their unique file requirements:

• Customer project package file 

• Thumbnail image

• Preview video 

1.1 Motion Graphics template files:

• Motion Graphics templates must be in MOGRT format (.mogrt). 

• MOGRT files must be under 500MB in size. 

• HD (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1920x1080 pixels. 

• 4K (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 3840x2160 pixels.

• Vertical (9:16 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1920 pixels for HD and 2160x3840 pixels for 4K. 

• Square (1:1 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1080 pixels for HD and 2160x2160 pixels for 4K.

1.2 After Effects template files:

• After Effects templates must be in AET format (.aet). 

• AET files must be under 2GB in size. 

• HD (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1920x1080 pixels. 

• 4K (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 3840x2160 pixels.

• Vertical (9:16 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1920 pixels for HD and 2160x3840 pixels for 4K. 

• Square (1:1 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1080 pixels for HD and 2160x2160 pixels for 4K.

• Must include a tutorial folder that includes a video file guide or a text file guide. 

• Assets and footage folder are optional.

• Customer zip file must be inside the main portal upload zip file. 

1.3 Premiere Pro template files:

• Premiere Pro templates must be in PRPROJ format (.prproj). 

• PRPROJ files must be under 2GB in size. 

• HD (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1920x1080 pixels. 

• 4K (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 3840x2160 pixels.

• Vertical (9:16 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1920 pixels for HD and 2160x3840 pixels for 4K. 

• Square (1:1 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1080 pixels for HD and 2160x2160 pixels for 4K.

• Must include a tutorial folder that includes a video file guide or a text file guide. 

• Assets and footage folder are optional.

• Customer zip file must be inside the main portal upload zip file. 

2. Thumbnail image:

• Must be named Thumbnail.jpg (case-sensitive). 

• Must be in JPG format (.jpg).

• HD (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1920x1080 pixels. 

• 4K (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 3840x2160 pixels.

• Vertical (9:16 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1920 pixels for HD and 2160x3840 pixels for 4K. 

• Square (1:1 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1080 pixels for HD and 2160x2160 pixels for 4K.

• Must match template width and height dimensions.  

• Must accurately depict the template.

• Do not place thumbnail in folder within the submission portal zip file. 

3. Preview video:

• Must be named with the same descriptive title as your template project. 

• Must be in MP4 format (.mp4).

• HD (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1920x1080 pixels. 

• 4K (16:9 aspect ratio) dimensions are 3840x2160 pixels.

• Vertical (9:16 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1920 pixels for HD and 2160x3840 pixels for 4K. 

• Square (1:1 aspect ratio) dimensions are 1080x1080 pixels for HD and 2160x2160 pixels for 4K.

• Must be 60 seconds or less. 

• Must match template width and height dimensions.

• Must accurately depict the template. 

• Do not place preview videos in folder within the submission portal zip file.

See the Submission Guidelines for Adobe Stock Video templates for more details. 

Fonts in Adobe Stock Video Templates

All Adobe Stock templates  are required to utilize Adobe Fonts. Creative Cloud users have access to thousands of fonts included with their subscription. The integration of Adobe Fonts in Adobe Creative Cloud apps eliminates the need to search for, download, and install additional files while also guaranteeing high-quality, properly licensed fonts.

When selecting fonts for your template, avoid using fonts from the Adobe Font Marketplace as they require an additional purchase on top of Creative Cloud subscriptions. 

For more details, see the Using Adobe Fonts in Templates guide.

Assets within Adobe Stock Video Templates

Assets may be used only if they are self-created: Contributors must own all rights to the assets used within their templates and have all necessary licenses and releases to use the assets. Contributors cannot use any stock content in templates. We also do not accept Creative Commons Zero (CC0) or public domain images as part of a template. This includes modifying a stock image so it’s no longer recognizable or using stock or modified stock for 3D textures. NASA CC0 images may be used for maps, globes, and textures if NASA is included in the title of the template. 

Adobe Stock images and videos may be used in the thumbnail image and preview video for the template to illustrate how the template can be utilized by customers. However, only images and videos that the Contributor has the rights to may be used in the template itself. 

Our Stock Contributor User Guide Legal Guidelines is a valuable resource for more information.

General Guidelines for Video Templates

Do not submit content that does not belong to you, or incorporate photos, images, or other graphic elements that are not yours - this includes content found on websites, through online search results, content licensed from other stock sites, and logos/references to brands (including Adobe and Adobe products).

Assets embedded in your template file must comply with existing  Adobe Stock legal requirements  - you must have full ownership of the image and have the proper model and property releases (if applicable).

Review the Adobe Stock Account and Submission Guidelines to ensure you understand content ownership and avoid any prohibited activities.

Additional guidelines related to using assets in video templates: 

• Assets in Templates 

• Model and Property Release Requirements

• Generative AI Content in Templates

• Thumbnail & Preview Videos for Templates

Text within Adobe Stock Video Templates

Adobe Stock templates provide creators with design and motion solutions that are meant to be customized to their needs. To ensure your success as a templates Contributor, read on for best practices for setting up text in your projects and what kind of text you can include in your templates.

General Text Guidelines

• Fonts must be from Adobe Fonts, including unused/hidden text layers.

• Text must be editable , unless it is utilized as a design element.  

• Do not use personal brand name, Adobe, Adobe Apps, or other brand names in the template, or layers.

• Any placeholder text should use lorem ipsum and very generic names, streets etc. where possible. (see image below). 

• Avoid IP infringement - don't use real names and references to identifiable people, companies, and locations.

• Mobile and web templates (such as UI kits, social media kits, etc.) meant to be used with certain apps and/or devices should only be described with referential phrasing such as "for Facebook" or "for iPhone" etc. for legal compliance. 

• Images/Mockups of objects should not include brand names. (I.e., using 'IPhone' with a smart phone mockup.

Examples:  

• Names: John Smith, Jane Smith, Mary Doe, First Name Last Name

• Companies: Your Company, Your Logo 

• Emails and websites: You@Example.com, www.YourCompanyURL.web

• Phone numbers: 555-555-5555 

• Addresses: 123 Street, City, State 45678

• Social media handles: @Username 

• Dummy text and paragraphs: Subtitle text, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Using generic text makes it clearer that these text fields are placeholders only and are meant to be replaced by the user.  

Additional Guidelines to text in video templates:

• Generic Names 

• Phone Numbers

Moderation Process

Video templates are evaluated based on these criteria:

• Legal standards: Do the files adhere to our IP and Legal guidelines? 

• Technical qualities: Is your template optimized for easy use and does it adhere to our specs?

• Metadata: Are titles and keywords accurate? 

• Similarity: Is the content too similar to another Adobe Stock video template or something you’ve already submitted?

Refusal reasons

All templates submitted to Adobe Stock go through a moderation process to ensure that the content meets Adobe Stock’s requirements. 

Refusal reasons are provided to enable Contributors to learn and improve future submissions. We may refuse or accept content at our discretion. To help you become a successful Adobe Stock template Contributor, we’ve listed some common reasons for refusal that you can avoid:  

If you are not sure why the video template was refused, contact our support team at template-contributor-support@adobe.com.