Ad Template Automation

Just to add, there's also my OpenSesame Server script which does much the same thing. It's not as slick as Templater but it does offer the ability to add custom helper scripts to do things like template specific layout adjustments. That's something we can provide help with and they're not too difficult to develop once you have some reference examples.

Hi There!

Full disclosure:  I'm the lead dev of Templater, so I can speak to that tool and hopefully help you answer any questions.

At Dataclay, we definitely need to add to our tutorials and we have plans to do this.  Out-of-the-box Templater can swap / update / manipulate all of the layer and data types you listed:  text, images, video, audio, color, and even values within an layer expression.  It also calculates the correct duration of a master composition depending on source layers' duration.  The duration of a master composition can change depending on one of its dynamic layers' inherent length — you can check out the Time Sculpting techniques in this regard.  In those tutorials you can see text, video, and still images, being swapped out.  If you find that Templater does not have the features you want, you can build them right in using scripts that hook into Templater's processes.  You can hook into these events using Templater's ExtendScript API and or with regular shell scripts.

Many of our users are definitely creating video ads appearing across various media and platforms, so it can definitely be done.  There is a free 30-day trial to test out the features, too.