Turn Excel data into videos automatically
Connect your Excel spreadsheet to an After Effects template and create a video from each row. Plainly fills in your text, images and other content, then handles rendering and delivery.
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How Excel to video works
Prepare your video template
Upload your After Effects project to Plainly and choose which text, images, colors and other elements will change between videos.
Connect your Excel spreadsheet
Select your spreadsheet and worksheet, then match its columns to the editable elements in your template.
Add rows to generate videos
New rows trigger new videos automatically. Plainly renders them in the cloud and can send the finished files straight to your connected storage.
Replace video elements in bulk
From spreadsheet to video
Keep working in Excel while Plainly handles the repetitive production steps, from filling your templates to delivering finished files.
After Effects native
Use your own templates, with the layouts, animation and branding your team has already created.
Create videos from new rows
Add content to your connected worksheet and automatically generate a video for each new row.
Output formats
MP4, MOV and GIF, from Full HD to 4K and above.
Layer scripting
Control how layers behave across every video, with crop, resize, and shift.
Generate stills
Export still frames from each rendered video.
Enterprise security
ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, with SSO.
How teams use Excel to automate video creation
Client requests
Give your clients a simple spreadsheet to generate their own branded videos without asking you to recreate the same video for every request.
Personalized videos
Generate personalized welcome videos, thank-yous, announcements, recaps, or milestone videos.
Event announcements
Collect event details, speaker names, dates, locations, and images to render announcement videos for your events.
Localized campaigns
Make it easy for regional teams to update languages, locations, offers, and other details to create market-specific campaign videos.
Video ad creation
Add multiple hooks, headlines or call-to-actions and create a separate video ad for each one.
Product videos
Drop product shots, features, and specifications to generate a ready-to-publish product video.
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.
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.
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.
Motion Designer, Freelance
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