Dynamically insert names into video?

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December 3, 2019
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Can someone point me in the right direction? My company wants to send milestone/anniversary messages to employees automatically. Would like to pull names from a database to insert into a video message to personalize it for each person, delivered via link in email. I work with After Effects and Premiere, so can create a video message, but am lost when it comes to dynamically inserting the names or other information.

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Correct answer Richard van den Boogaard

Obviously you are not looking for a way to create 60.000 videos, but for a way to have a name tag dynamically appearing in a predefined area of a single video... this is not a video related task, but a dynamic scripting task. You would have to start looking for answers in programs such as Adobe Animate or Dreamweaver, is my best guess.

Hope this helps.

Richard van den Boogaard

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Obviously you are not looking for a way to create 60.000 videos, but for a way to have a name tag dynamically appearing in a predefined area of a single video... this is not a video related task, but a dynamic scripting task. You would have to start looking for answers in programs such as Adobe Animate or Dreamweaver, is my best guess.

Hope this helps.

ScaseyAuthor

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Yes, thanks!

ScaseyAuthor

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This is really cool stuff, thanks! Now I realize that this method means creating a new video file for every person, in our case would be about 60,000 files. May need to rethink this plan!

jasontcox

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Depending on what workflow you are more comfortable with, I'd also recommend taking a look at Dataclay's After Effects Templater. It takes a bit of time to learn the first time, but it is an AWESOME piece of software.