Use AI for adding airdate and airtime graphics to pre-produced, finished promos?

Could you clarify how you'd like AI to assist with adding airdates and airtimes? Knowing more about your workflow will help us suggest a relevant solution that might already exist.

@EIC1 

Yep, this kind of thing can definitely be automated — especially if your promos follow a consistent structure and you're just swapping out airdates/times in lower thirds.

You could use something like Plainly (https://www.plainlyvideos.com/), which lets you set up an After Effects template with placeholders, and then batch render all your variations just by uploading a CSV (or triggering via API). Everything runs in the cloud — no need to open AE every time or tie up an editor's machine for exports.

You’d just need to convert your Premiere project to AE for the initial setup, but once that’s done, generating new versions is super fast.

@EIC1 

Take a look at Data Clay Templeter for After Effects. 

https://dataclay.com

Their website can seem a little overwhelming, but their tutorial documentation does a good job of explaining their product.

Templater is a very capable tool for setting up an After Effects project for very quick changing text and graphics based on a spreadsheet.

For your use case, I'm thinking you would use it to batch render the lower thirds as PNG or TIF files with an alpha for your editor to superimpose on the Premiere Pro side.  It supports rendering video with an alpha as well so if the lower thirds animate on or off, you're all good.

- Warren

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Warren Heaton

Senior Designer 

CBS Promo Animation