How to Use Preset in Alight Motion? Creating, Reusing & Importing Presets

Unlike photo editing, video editing is a lengthy and time-consuming process and it involves a lot more steps. Video editors have to edit multiple components of the video in every second and even every frame of the video at the same time. This makes video editing a very time-consuming procedure. A good video editor tries to save as much of their time as possible and complete the video editing task in a minimal amount of time. Learning how to use preset in Alight Motion, will make your video editing more efficient.

To make video editing more productive, and save time and effort, Alight Motion has presets. By using presets you can quickly add amazing animations, effects, transitions, and other settings to your videos without having to manually add and adjust them every time. By the end of this article, you will know everything about Presets and how to use preset in Alight Motion.

How to Use Preset in Alight Motion?

If you are wondering how to use preset in Alight Motion, it is very easy to import and use the presets in your Projects in Alight Motion. To use the preset, scan the preset QR code or click on the preset link. It will open the Alight Motion app and ask you to import the preset. Tap on “import” and the preset will be imported and ready to use in your Alight Motion project. You can use XML presets by uploading them in the templates section of Alight Motion. Many influencers, video editing experts, or content creators upload their Presets on their websites or social media. Besides this, your fellows or teammates may share Alight Motion Presets with you.

What is Alight Motion Preset?

Presets are pre-designed templates or configurations that include various styles, effects, filters, transitions, animations, and settings. We can use these presets again and again without having to recreate them from scratch every time. We can adjust the pre-made presets according to our needs in new projects as well. We can create our own presets while editing our videos to use in the next projects or we can also import presets made by others. We can share our presets as XML files or links with others, so that they can use our presets in their projects. By learning how to use preset in Alight Motion, you can save time & effort.

How To Create & Reuse Your Own Presets

Creating your own preset for reusing it is very simple. Simply follow the steps below to create your own preset and then use it in the next projects without having to create it again from scratch.

1. Creating your Preset:

Go to your project in Alight Motion.

Select any layer that you want to save as preset.

On the control panel, tap on the icon shown below.

Tap on the “Save Preset” option. The preset will be saved. You can rename it if you want to.

If you want to share/export your preset, select any layer, and from the editing options in the editing area below, tap on “Presets”. From the presets list, tap on 3 dots next to the preset and select “Export”. Once the export is complete, you will get a shareable link and QR codes to share your preset with others.

2. Reusing Your Previously Saved Preset

Create a new project, or edit any previous project you want to apply preset to.

Tap the layer you want to apply preset to. A window with editing options will appear.

Tap on the “Presets” option. It will show all the previously saved or imported presets.

Select the preset you want to use and tap on “Apply”. The preset will be applied to the selected layer.

How to Import Preset XML file in Alight Motion?

You can download and import XML preset files from different sources on the internet shared by other video editors or your friends.
To use downloaded Preset XML files in Alight Motion, follow the steps below.

How to Use Presets Links in Alight Motion?

Using presets by importing from links is very easy. People prefer to share their presets by links due to their easy shareability. You must have an active internet connection for this.
Follow the steps below to import presets from links.

You can now go to any project, select any layer, and apply the imported preset on this layer.

How To Use QR Codes on Alight Motion For Presets?

Similar to importing the preset from links, using QR codes to import presets is also very simple. You can also share your own presets with others by using QR codes as discussed above in creating & reusing your own presets section. You must have an active internet connection for importing presets via QR Code to Alight Motion.
Follow the steps below to import presets from QR codes.