Templater Editions
Templater is currently available as three separate editions, each with a specific feature set. Read our handy descriptions below to see which edition or combination of editions is right for your studio.
Templater Rig allows you to prepare an After Effects project file for dynamic content, map data from a data source to your project file, and preview how dynamic elements change as information from your data source is processed.
TIPS Reasons to use
Templater Rig- You find that swapping content in your project file takes too much time.
- You want to prepare an AE project file to render with a different studio machine running Templater Pro or Templater Bot.
- You want to create an AE project compatible with Templater Pro to sell or distribute as a template.
Templater Pro extends Templater Rig by offering desktop automation, allowing you to render or replicate batches of versioned compositions using data from your data source. You can prepare an After Effects project file for dynamic content, map data from a data source to your layers, preview, replicate, and render.
TIPS Reasons to use
Templater Pro- Your clients have a database of customer information, and they require a quick turnaround for many unique videos based on that data.
- Your studio has multiple artists who need to work concurrently on different variations of a master composition.
- You have purchased a Templater-compatible AE template and want to create many unique versions of it quickly based on data from a data source.
Templater Bot is a fully automated enterprise solution for custom video on demand. It works as an automated system. You can use it to check for incoming data periodically, pull new data in, and render video as a background process. Or you can use a command line interface to push data in to create new renders. Once your AE project is initially prepared, you can use Templater Bot to customize and render it without operating the After Effects user interface. Developers can create front end applications, such as web or mobile apps, that feed data into Templater's data source, offering a collaborative, custom video content creation solution.
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Reasons to Use
Templater Bot- You need an efficient way to create anywhere from 15 to 15,000 unique videos based on a data source.
- You want to automatically create a video based on web form input and run a script to upload it to a server.
- You want to integrate Templater into an existing automated production pipeline.
- You need to automatically run a script after every render job or after all render jobs are complete.
Table 1: Feature Comparison for Templater Editions
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| Use a Google Sheets Document as Data Source |
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| Use a Tab-separated Value File as Data Source |
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| Use a Remote JSON URL Feed as a Data Source |
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| Local Footage References |
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| Cloud-based Footage References |
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| Apply Layout Rules |
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| Project-specific Batch Assets Presets |
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| Preview Compositions with Data |
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| Log Templater Activity to File |
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| Batch Replicate Compositions |
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| Batch Render Compositions |
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| Batch Render with Adobe Media Encoder |
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| Custom Output File Naming |
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| Switch AE Projects within the Data Source |
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| Run Shell Scripts while Templater Processes |
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| Command-line Interface Control |
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| Version AE Projects as a Background Process |
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| Process Extremely Large Data Sources |
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Templater Rig
