MCP for video automation

Plainly Videos MCP lets you browse, customize, and render your After Effects templates through LLMs and AI agents.

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Automating video creation for clients like these:
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What your AI agent can do with Plainly Videos MCP

List all projects in your Plainly account

Browser projects and designs

Your AI agent instantly browses all your video projects and pre-made designs, filtering by tags, categories, attributes, descriptions, and names - then selects the best match based on duration and aspect ratio.
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Explore parameters of your templates

Once your AI agent selects a project, it reveals every editable field in your chosen template, like text boxes, image slots, video layers, and colors, and tells you which ones are required and which are optional, so you know exactly what to provide before rendering.
Render template with your data

Render your videos

Once everything’s set, your AI can trigger a render in Plainly, transforming templates and data into fully produced videos, ready to share.
Check render status

Track every render in real time

Your AI agent monitors each render job from start to finish, showing you whether it's queued, processing, or complete. The moment it's ready, your video URL arrives automatically.

What others say about us

We have a great experience working with the team and Plainly. They weren’t shy to break the mold and go the extra mile. Personalization in today’s saturated digital landscape is paramount to cut through the noise and stick out; Plainly offers a great platform, product, and solution for this.

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CMO, Y11 Sport & Media Holdings

Working with Plainly was great, their API is robust but simple to set up. After setting up the workflow, we literally forgot about it. The integration with After Effects allowed my team to work with tools they are familiar with and create high-quality video templates.

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Milos Zecevic

CTO, Tapni

Plainly allows you to produce large amounts of video content very quickly. A great advantage is that your content can be still very individual and on-brand due to the ability of using Templates made in Adobe After Effects. Its interface is quite intuitive and the software gets new interesting features often.

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Ann-Kristin Z.

Motion Designer, Freelance

Frequently asked questions

What is an MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new open standard that lets AI models connect directly to external tools, data, and platforms in a structured way. It allows assistants like ChatGPT. Claude or Smithery to browse, fetch, and execute actions safely, without custom integrations or plugins.

Is your MCP secure?

Yes. MCP was designed with security in mind. Connections run in controlled, permission-based environments where every request and response follows a defined schema. When using Plainly MCP, all interactions happen through authenticated, encrypted channels using your Plainly API key, keeping your data and projects fully protected.

What makes MCP different from a regular API integration?

Traditional APIs require manual setup, endpoints, and authentication handling. MCP simplifies this by providing a standard protocol that AI agents already understand. Instead of writing code, you simply connect your MCP server, and your AI can instantly discover available tools, understand their parameters, and use them safely.

How much does Plainly MCP cost?

Nothing. Plainly MCP is free to use on any plan, including the free trial. Just create an API key in your Plainly account and link it to MCP. That’s it, it’s free to use on any plan.

How many videos can I create?

With Plainly, the number of video versions you can create depends on the amount of data you provide and the plan you're on, but there’s no technical limit on how many can be generated. As long as you have a working After Effects template and a structured data source like a spreadsheet or API, Plainly can create hundreds or even thousands of unique videos.

On what platform can I use Plainly MCP?

You can use Plainly MCP on Smithery or run it locally.

Create data driven videos at scale in a few clicks.

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