Plainly Videos

Company Overview

Plainly Videos helps video teams scale their video content output. It offers a self-serve web application that enables video teams to automate data-driven video workflows based on After Effects in the cloud.

Plainly Videos was founded by a team of creatives that saw a shift in the industry which made automation a requirement. Budgets are getting smaller, clients needier, and competition more fierce. Plainly is on a mission to make the lives of creatives as easy as possible and relieve them of manual video versioning so they can focus on what they can do best – being creative.

Plainly Videos platform is used by internal teams in Fortune 100 companies and some of the largest agencies to do a few things: version creatives automatically, execute personalized video campaigns, and create custom video automation workflows using Plainly Videos API.

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Adobe Integrations Overview

Plainly Videos is a native After Effects solution – it renders After Effects projects directly without any loss of functionality or quality.

The product is built to fit any workflow and it doesn’t disrupt your creative process. The setup consists of 2 steps:

• Upload your After Effects project files into Plainly’s web application
• Connect your data that will drive rendering using a CSV, native integrations, or API.

The video storage & distribution is also automated, as Plainly Videos offers cloud storage and native integrations to all major video storage providers such as Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, and FrameIO.

All of this is done in a cloud-based environment with enterprise-grade security, which eliminates the need for maintenance of the in-house infrastructure while keeping all of your data safe.

Key Differentiators

Plainly Videos offers a few key benefits:

• Native After Effects – Your project files won’t be converted into any intermediary format, which means no loss of quality and After Effects functionalities.
• Cloud-based rendering – Plainly brings cloud rendering directly into your workflow. You can achieve any kind of scale without worrying about maintaining a rendering infrastructure or After Effects crashes.
• Ease of use – Plainly Videos provides a simple-to-use Web App that offers team management, 2 step setup process, and video rendering capabilities even for non-technical people.
• Fits any workflow – Using Plainly Videos doesn’t disrupt your creative workflow and gives you multiple ways of rendering & distributing videos.

Adobe Products we support:

• Adobe After Effects