We were able to create more than a thousand costumized Videos for the costumers of our client. I was amazed by the wonderful tech support that helped us to prepare the original file. Once everything was set up the videos were generated in the blink of an eye so that we could send them to the costumers.
For my design team, I was looking for a solution to batch render thousands of videos with different variables on a daily basis. In our previous setup, this was the biggest bottleneck in optimizing the process. After some research online, we came across Plainly, and it seemed exactly what we were looking for: a batch cloud renderer that is seamlessly compatible with Adobe After Effects.
The team at Plainly had a streamlined onboarding process ready and presented a live demo tailored to our specific use case. After the demo, we received a trial period where I could test some projects myself, allowing us to adjust and streamline our workflow with Plainly. The platform is easy to use, and the team at Plainly very responsive and helped with any issues that come up.
After some back and forth, we optimized our process and fully integrated Plainly into our daily cloud batch rendering. The system is straightforward and perfect for our use case. I also had some suggestions to improve the usability and features of the Plainly platform, and they were very open to feedback and actually applied some of these suggestions within a few days.
Plainly also offers an After Effects plugin that allows you to upload your project directly to the platform. I highly recommend using this tool, as it gathers all your project assets and fonts in one go, saving you the manual work. Very useful!
There is much more possible within Plainly outside of our specific use case, as it can read all your After Effects layers, allowing you to make practically anything a variable. With our current plan, we easily render 700 videos within 15 minutes, as it renders multiple videos simultaneously.
Plainly is a video automation platform that helps in-house creative teams and agencies automate the creation of After Effects based videos. Many of the largest companies in the world use Plainly to execute personalized video campaigns, batch render video variations or build custom video creation workflows using the Plainly API.