Creating Christmas videos - animations, overlays and transitions

Christmas & Winter, 3D, Video & Animation English

by Patrick Liesendahl

Welcome to the big "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT" - 26 dynamic assets with which you can create atmospheric Christmas videos. Let the snow drizzle down, use festive transitions, incorporate icon and text animations and create wintery social media animations and slideshows.

26 festive assets you can use to create enchanting Christmas videos
Snow overlays, transitions and icon animations for layer-based video software
Text animations, slideshow & social media templates for After Effects
Easy to use: no plugins required!
Customize your Christmas video: many parameters such as color and text can be adjusted
Present companies/products in Christmas videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Co
Create emotionally touching family videos in a Christmassy guise

Unpack a package full of Christmas (e)motion and create eye-pleasing, varied Christmas videos with your video editing program.

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Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Assets for Christmas videos

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Slideshow

Present your pictures or clips in a Christmassy atmosphere. The dynamic slideshow shows off your footage in a particularly charming way. Perfect for a presentation on Christmas Eve. With a tidy and structured working file, you will quickly achieve a magical result.

A Christmas slideshow for your photos and video clips
Create emotionally touching family videos with a Christmas theme
Present companies/products in Christmas videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
Universal expressions, applicable in After Effects from CC 13 upwards

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Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Animated icons

Ideal for getting started, for in-between and for the end credits: add a Christmassy touch to your videos with an animated snowman, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, candy canes and Christmas baubles. The animated icons are ready-made and provide the atmospheric icing on the cake for your next video project.

5 animated icons (MOV, alpha channel, 25 frames, 3 seconds, 1,000 px × 1,000 px)
Snowman, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, candy canes and Christmas baubles
Create emotionally touching family videos in a Christmassy guise
Present companies/products in Christmas videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
For layer-based video programs with alpha channel function, for example After Effects, Premiere Pro and VEGAS Pro

Download PDF instructions

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Snow overlays

Whether it's gently trickling or snowing through your videos - simply add the fluffy tangle of flakes. The snow overlays are loopable, so it can snow for as long as you like. The pre-made scenes can be imported into a layer-based video program and placed over the desired footage. Let it snow!

5 snow overlays (MOV, alpha channel, 25 frames, 10 seconds, 1,920 px × 1,080 px/Full HD)
Create emotionally touching family videos in a Christmas setting
Present companies/products in Christmas videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
Can be used in layer-based video programs with alpha channel function such as After Effects, Premiere Pro, VEGAS Pro

Download PDF instructions

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Video-Transitions

This is how you fade from one scene to the next in your Christmas videos to match the theme: let stars or stripes flare up, tie up a package or create a smooth transition with Christmas baubles and a wintry landscape.

5 Christmas video transitions (MOV, 25 frames, 1,920 px × 1,080 px/Full HD)
Create emotionally touching family videos in a Christmas theme
Present companies/products in Christmas videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
Can be used in layer-based video programs with alpha channel function, for example After Effects, Premiere Pro and VEGAS Pro

Download PDF instructions

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Social media templates

In winter, you are in the best Christmas mood on social media: Use the templates for the finest animations on Facebook and Instagram to greet your followers warmly. With just a few clicks, you can quickly achieve your individual result with the well-organized work file.

5 Christmas social media templates for Facebook and Instagram
Present companies/products or simply yourself in a Christmassy look
Universal expressions, applicable in After Effects from CC 13 upwards

Download PDF instructions

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Text animations

The perfect start for your video and can also be used to divide your clips into themed chapters: Your titles, illustrated with reindeer, Christmas trees, baubles and bells - for moving messages! Use the animations for the Facebook cover image or as a digital Christmas greeting card.

5 text animations with editable text (25 frames, 1,920 px × 1,080 px/Full HD)
Create emotionally touching family videos in a Christmassy guise
Present companies/products in Christmas videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
Universal expressions, applicable in After Effects from CC 13 upwards

Download PDF instructions

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Slideshow

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Animated icons

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Snow overlays

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Video-Transitions

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Social media templates

Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: Text animations

Examples of use

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Merry Christmas Creators Kit | TRAILER
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Winter transitions for your Christmas videos
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Winter title animations for your Christmas videos

help videos for application

Video instructions for the CreatorsKIT: How to use the slideshow

Have you downloaded the Christmas slideshow from the "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT" and now want to know how to use it? This video tutorial provides answers and explains step by step how to fill the template with your own content in Adobe After Effects CC. Have fun editing and presenting your final work.

1 minute · free of charge

Video instructions for the CreatorsKIT: How to use the animated icons

Snowman, Christmas tree, Santa Claus and co have come together to put your videos in a Christmassy mood. Watch this video tutorial to see how to use the icons from the "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT" in Adobe Premiere Pro, for example, and change the colors. Incidentally, this also works with other layer-based video programs.

1 minute · free of charge

Video instructions for the CreatorsKIT: How to use the snow overlays

Are your videos still missing the right Christmassy effect, a gentle to stormy snowfall? With the snow overlays from the "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT", you can easily add the falling flakes. Use a layer-based video program to do this. This video tutorial shows you how to proceed using Adobe Premiere Pro as an example.

1 minute · free of charge

Video instructions for the CreatorsKIT: How to use the Transitions

There's nothing like a smooth transition in a video. And if it fits the theme, all the better. Let this video tutorial show you how to use transitions to add Christmas transitions to your footage. Stars, stripes, parcels, Christmas baubles and a wintry landscape fade from one scene to the next.

1 minute · free of charge

Video instructions for the CreatorsKIT: How to use the social media templates

Would you like to customize the templates from the "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT" for a festive and visually convincing appearance on your social media profiles? - This video tutorial shows you step by step how to use Adobe After Effects to fill the template with your content and customize it for your purposes.

1 minute · free of charge

Video instructions for the CreatorsKIT: How to use the text animations

From the title of your video to the inter-chapter to the credits: Use the text animations from the "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT" to present your spelled-out messages in a Christmassy atmosphere with the help of Adobe After Effects CC. Watch the video tutorial to see how to use the text animations and change the texts.

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Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT: charm offensive for your Christmas videos
Would you like to create a Christmas-ready social media clip for a company? Or do you want your family to see the year's photos behind the Christmas tree on a screen in a very special slideshow? Whatever Christmas video you want to create - with the 26 video assets of the "Merry Christmas CreatorsKIT" you can start a dynamic Christmas charm offensive.

Christmas can come: Snow overlays, transitions, animated icons and more!

With the templates, you can easily conjure up a wintery, Christmassy atmosphere in your videos. For example, if you're still missing a snowy effect, simply add the loopable snow overlays to your footage . If your scenes need a thematically appropriate transition, you can use the transitions to flash stars, presents or Christmas baubles, for example.

Create Christmas clips and videos - these are the contents of the package

A total of 26 video assets are available for you to create your own Christmas videos . You can use the snow overlays, transitions and icon animations in all layer-based programs such as Premiere Pro, VEGAS Pro, After Effects or Final Cut.

5 snow overlays: Whether it's a gentle trickle or a stormy snowfall in your videos - simply add the fluffy flurry of flakes. The snow overlays are loopable, so it can snow for as long as you like.
5 animated icons: Ideally suited for the introduction, for in-between and the credits: add a Christmassy touch to your videos with an animated snowman, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, candy canes and Christmas baubles.
5 transitions: This is how you blend from one scene to the next in a Christmassy way: let stars or stripes flare up, tie up a package or create a smooth transition with Christmas baubles and a wintry landscape.

The social media templates, title animations and the slideshow are designed for After Effects. No plugins are required for use.

1 Christmas slideshow: Present your images or clips in a Christmassy atmosphere. The dynamic slideshow shows off your footage in a particularly charming way. Perfect for a presentation on Christmas Eve.
5 text animations: The perfect prelude to your video and can also be used to divide your clips into themed chapters: Your titles, illustrated with reindeer, Christmas trees, baubles and bells - for moving messages!
5 social media templates: You'll be in the best Christmas mood on social media in winter: Use the templates for the finest animations on Facebook and Instagram to greet your followers warmly.

The assets each offer you a wide range of editing options. For example, you can change the colors and texts and adapt your Christmas videos for your purposes.

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Usable with: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Magix Vegas Pro
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use

Created with love by

Patrick Liesendahl

Patrick Liesendahl is a young filmmaker from NRW who specializes in motion graphics & 3D content creation on a part-time basis. He has been working as a vendor in the field of 3D visualization for DAZ3D and Renderosity for several years. Patrick works full-time for a large German film production company. Your trainer for motion design and 3D visualization!

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