Create personalized
year-in-review videos at scale
Turn each customer’s activity, milestones and statistics into a video about their year. Design your recap once, connect your customer data and let Plainly generate a personalized version for every recipient.
Collaborating with Plainly was a seamless experience. Their team was committed and proficient, allowing us to achieve our campaign goals and create great experiences for our supporters.
Toma Delafosse, Head of Performance @ UNICEF
How personalized recap videos work
Design your recap template
Create an After Effects template with space for names, statistics, milestones and visuals. Upload it to Plainly and choose what changes for each recipient.
Connect your customer data
Supply each customer’s details through a CSV, spreadsheet or API. Match the information to the corresponding parts of your recap.
Generate and deliver the recaps
Plainly renders each personalized video in the cloud. Connect the finished videos to your email platform, app or other delivery tools.
Control what changes
Elements marked as dynamic change, everything else stays exactly as it was designed.
Go further than content replacement
Use layer scripting to crop, trim, resize, reposition, and control
how layers behave across every video variation.
Crop composition
Match the composition start or end to a dynamic layer’s timing.
Extend footage
Extend a layer to show the full length of a longer incoming video.
Set layer duration
Give a layer a fixed duration or set it to zero to hide it.
Shift layers
Move a layer’s start or end to match another layer’s timing.
Trim layers
Trim a layer’s start or end based on another layer in the composition.
Stretch layers
Stretch a layer to match the duration of another layer.
Spread layers
Show only layers with input and spread them across the composition.
Auto scale media
Fit images and footage to the template while preserving their proportions.
Auto scale text
Resize text automatically to keep it within the original layer bounds.
Resize compositions
Change composition width and height during rendering.
Replace compositions
Swap the source composition to create different scenes or variants.
Change layer properties
Control timing, visibility, audio, fonts, and composition settings per render.
Connect your customer data and render
Supply recap data through a CSV, form, native integration or Plainly’s API to generate a personalized video for each recipient.
Turn spreadsheet data into finished videos
Map columns to your template's layers and get a video for every row of data.
Turn form submissions into videos
Clients, customers, or team members submit the content, and each response generates a finished video automatically.
Trigger video creation from other tools
Connect Airtable, Google Sheets, HeyGen, and more to generate videos automatically.
Generate videos programmatically
Send data through the REST API and generate video variations directly from your product or backend.
Give your team a workflow they can run themselves
Build the creative workflow once in Plainly Flows, then let teammates or clients generate new versions through a form or table.
More ways teams use Plainly
Automated video versioning
Swap names, prices and images across hundreds of videos while your team stays focused on the creative work.
Video localization
Batch localize your videos, adapting text, assets, and audio to suit different languages and cultures.
Sports videos
Capture the excitement, and create videos for match lineups, game updates, recaps, and exciting moments as they happen!
News videos
Automate video creation using structured data such as RSS feeds, article metadata, and more.
Digital signage
Automate your digital signage video creation to deliver up-to-date, relevant content across multiple displays at all times.
Broadcast content
Dynamically create lower thirds and other on-screen graphics for your broadcast content in no time.
Dynamic video ads
Automatically swap out elements of your ads and create thousands of variations for TV or social media.
Personalized videos
Engage with your customers with videos personalized specifically for them.
Video editing API
Integrate Plainly into your app, or create custom video automation workflows with a powerful rest API.
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
Turn your customers’ year into a video worth sharing
