The Dataclay team has released Templater 3.7.1, which adds some brand-new features, such as our Metered Output Option and support for Generative AI Text. You can download Templater 3.7.1 from this link:
WHAT’S NEW IN TEMPLATER 3.7.1
Templater 3.7 contains several exciting new features as well as an important change for those who use Google Sheets as their data source. It also includes UI updates and several bug fixes.
New Feature: QUE Meter for Templater Output
The QUE Meter is a new service for Templater that supports pay-as-you-go production of customized videos. You can now:
Purchase Templater Rig to prepare After Effects projects for automation workflows.
Purchase QUE Credits when you are ready to batch output customized video using your Templater Rig activation. Spot checking, replicating, and rendering consumes one QUE Credit per output.
You can purchase QUE Credits for your QUE Meter at: http://dataclay.com/credits
New Feature: File Picker for Google Drive
Google has introduced a number of new security requirements that affect how Templater obtains authorization to read data to and from Google Sheets documents. As a result, the workflow for authorizing Templater to access your Google Sheets documents has changed with this release.
After you authorize Templater to access your Google account, you will need to also launch the “File Picker for Google Drive” from Templater to grant access to specific Sheets available in your Google Drive.
WARNING: If you rely on Google Sheets as a data source, you must upgrade Templater to version 3.7 soon. In the near future, earlier versions of Templater will no longer support direct integration with Google Sheets.
New Feature: Support for Generative AI Text
You can now use your existing AI service to generate synthetic text content for dynamic text layers. Enter a prompt directly within a text layer’s Templater Settings effect under the Generative AI parameter group.
When Templater cannot map a value to a dynamic text layer, it will attempt to send the layer’s stored prompt to your preferred generative AI service and will await a suggestion that will map to the dynamic text layer. This feature currently supports:
ChatGPT from OpenAI
Claude from Anthropic
User Interface Updates
You can now set a preference to highlight the most recently previewed row in your Google Sheets data source. This can help you to better identify the spreadsheet row that Templater most recently processed
A new set of preferences has been added to control the generative AI feature.
The Templater app logo has been added in various locations throughout the UI.
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes in Templater 3.7.1
The offline help documentation in CHM format no longer ships with the Templater archive. Download the offline docs at: https://dataclay.com/downloads/templater-docs.
Previously misinterpreted values for updating dynamic essential properties are now interpreted correctly.
Offline license deactivation is now possible without having an activated license.
SRT subtitle layers better estimate line count in paragraphs.
Bugs were fixed relating to machine profiling on Windows machines during QUE Satellite registration by removing dependency on the wmic command.
Improved Templater authorization implementation for accessing both QUE and Google Sheets.
Fixed a long-standing bug where Templater would not interpret null values correctly.