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  • Personalised video created on mass scale..

    Posted by Simon Byrnes on April 23, 2018 at 4:26 pm

    I’m researching on how to produce something like this below video:

    https://vimeo.com/135967284

    I’m pretty confident I’ll be given some data in the form of a spreadsheet, CSV, XML. So its just getting that data into specific text fields and then exporting?

    any thoughts welcome?

    Thank you in advance

    Simon

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    Nebojsa Savicic replied 9 months, 3 weeks ago 7 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Tero Ahlfors

    April 23, 2018 at 4:35 pm

    I haven’t used this but check it out anyway https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/

  • Kevin Camp

    April 23, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    you can load text from a file, and you should be able to parse that as needed to fill in text layers. I would ask in the expressions forum.

    harry frank (graymachine) had an old tutorial that covered this, but it seems to be gone…

    also, it would help if you knew the kind of file, but you could focus efforts on a CSV file, it would be more straight forward to parse out. once that is figured out, if it’s some other filetype, you could build from that.

    Kevin Camp
    Art Director
    KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

  • Richard Garabedain

    April 24, 2018 at 7:35 pm

    I dont understand…A personalized video…is not what you think it means. THis is just a plain old regular tv commercial..nothing personalized about it!

  • Kalleheikki Kannisto

    April 30, 2018 at 9:35 am

    Look at it again from this perspective: That was personalized to a person named “Clare” that the bank would loan £23000 to based on her banking history. For a video that they would send to you, she would say “Richard”, the signs would say “Richard” , the car plate would be different, and the text on the signs would have the amount of provisional loan you would be given.

    Kalleheikki Kannisto
    Senior Graphic Designer

  • Pieter Mylle

    October 11, 2018 at 9:19 am

    This video was personalized with a the Saas platform Idomoo, a cloud service for batch and on-the-fly rendering of personalized videos. Please let me know if you want more info.

  • Nebojsa Savicic

    July 28, 2025 at 2:23 pm

    Yeah, as Pieter mentioned above, this was done using Idoomo. The flow is exactly how you imagined Simon – you import a CSV into Idoomo and it spits out personalized videos where the only elements that change are the “dynamic” elements you marked.

    That said, if you want to use something more integrated with After Effects, there are a few options:

    – If you don’t have a ton of videos to render, and you’d like to render locally, you can use something like https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/

    – If you want scalability and cloud rendering, you can use something like https://plainlyvideos.com/, which is cloud based and allows connection of many other data sources, not just a CSV.

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