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Announcement — Dataclay Has an Official Discord Server

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:24:59 GMT

@lalimec Apologies, it appears that the previous link has expired. I’ve gone ahead and set up a new invite that should be valid, and updated this post. If you run into any issues joining, let us know. Thanks!

Seems like there is no way to keep templater effect on master comp after replicating.

Mariusz — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:16:15 GMT

@Jeff Thank you Jeff for the quick reply! I have just checked another project i have been working on today, and indeed on this project the templater settings effect remained on the target composition’s inner comps’ layers after creating variants. Thats indeed odd. I will come back to you, after i encounter that strange behavior again. Perhaps will be able to pinpoint the reason aswell. I thought thats just how it was coded - that its default behavior for some reason. Apologies for the confusion.

D_curl.exe in DataClay folder being flagged as Ymacco Trojan by Windows Defender

Jon — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:05:57 GMT

@UncleMonty To follow on Jeff’s replies, in case you are using an earlier version of Templater 3, it’s recommended to run the Templater uninstaller and download and install Templater from one of those links he provided. The zip names are going to be the same, but the contents will be different—which is why you’ll want to install from a fresh download.

Issues with file extension

dorianabdullahu — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:54:21 GMT

@Jeff I just emailed for more info.

Templater working with mogrts in Premiere Pro

Jeff — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:21:07 GMT

@ThomasH The general process for using Templater with mogrts is usually pretty simple as long as the mogrt files can be opened and rigged in After Effects. Once the mogrts have been rigged up to a data source and the text can be swapped out as needed, we’ll basically need to keep Premiere and After Effects open simultaneously. In After Effects, we’ll cycle through the preview data using Templater. This should update the mogrt’s text layers, which should be reflected in the Premiere project. From there, each iteration of the data can be exported as needed from Premiere. Unfortunately, Templater doesn’t have any ability to automate the output process in Premiere, so if we were looking for an entirely hands-off implementation, we’d need to get the project loaded completely into After Effects. Once that was done, Templater Pro or Bot could be used to process the videos in batches using the translated language data. Hopefully, that helps as an overview, but if there’s a more specific question or concept that we can address, just let us know, and we’ll be more than happy to help out. Thanks, Jeff

Replicate Selected?

Jeff — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:26:58 GMT

@Matt-Keyes Unfortunately, ExtendScript doesn’t contain any hooks that can be used to control Templater. Templater can execute ExtendScripts via the Event Scripts feature at various points throughout the reversioning process, but ExtendScript can’t kick off a render or replication operation. The closest thing I could recommend for that sort of behavior would be to run Templater in CLI mode. That would allow you to start Templater up in a way that could be executed via a script or some other form of automation. Thanks, Jeff

Templater changes text in all comps with effect applied?

Matt Keyes — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:16:00 GMT

@Jeff Thanks for your detailed response! My curiosity has been satiated on this matter.

What might be the reason why Templater suddenly starts creating 2 copies of each replicated comp?

Jeff — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:30:55 GMT

@Falrinth Thanks for the update. If we can figure out a way to replicate the error reliably, that would be quite useful. When we get the time, it would probably be beneficial if you could open up a direct ticket with us so that we can get some more data about the structure of the project, the workflow for the replications, and, hopefully, some details from a non-sensitive log file. Let us know how else we can help out, and we’ll see where we need to go from there. Thanks, Jeff

Increase in Pricing

Allan Barnwell — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:21:20 GMT

@Maris The legacy price isn’t just for subscriptions. It applies to Rig purchases and pre-paid licenses of all durations. From a business standpoint, it just makes much more sense to manually offer individuals and small businesses this discount since that combined revenue represents only a small percentage of our total revenue. But we still want to make that available - and since launching this policy at the start of 2023, it has been incredibly effective. So just email suppport@dataclay.com with any legacy purchase request and I’ll be happy to help you out.

Is this a bug? Why are my images showing a marker?

Rick933 — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:42:46 GMT

Thank you. Where can I find the templater preferences? Found it, thanks!

The fonts replacement behavior for unsupported characters

Jeff — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:08:09 GMT

@falrinth It’s an interesting idea! I’m not sure if it would be 100% workable, since Adobe’s handling of text layers can be a bit odd, but we can certainly consider the request. In the meantime, there is a technique we’ve used in the past that might help with this particular scenario. Basically, we could use an After Effects Expression to change the font according to a text value specified in the Data Source. To accomplish this, we’d want to start by creating a new text layer and connecting it to Templater. Once that’s done and we can verify the font name is being loaded, we can then apply this Expression: text.sourceText.style.setFont(comp("Globals").layer("Font01").text.sourceText); to the “Source Text” value of any text layer whose font we wanted to change. We’d need to change "Globals" to the comp that contains the layer and "Font01" to the layer name, but once that’s done, AE should read the font name from the Data Source and adjust any text layers accordingly. We’ve also used this technique to pre-emptively keep After Effects from reverting to the default font by proactively swapping over to one that can support the characters in question so that no error occurs during the render/replication process. The only catch to this method is that the font name in the Data Source must match AE’s listing exactly, or the font will be unable to load. The easiest way to locate the exact font name is to create a new text layer, expand the “Source Text” section, and click the small “play” button next to the pickwhip. This should bring up a menu. Navigate to Text>Font and choose the font you want to use. That should populate the text layer with the exact name of the font/style that After Effects uses. Hopefully, that helps, but if you have any other questions, please feel free to run them by us. Thanks!

MFR and Templater

pbretz — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:33:45 GMT

Just some additional info: we’re using Templater 3, build 13978. I’m using Google Sheets as a data source.

Templater and ffmpeg

pbretz — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:58:55 GMT

@jon Thanks. The audio length will vary with each video. I’ll take a look at the link you posted.

Issues connecting Google account

Jon — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:26:42 GMT

@junior What can you tell us about your system? Which operating system, version of After Effects, and version of Templater do you have installed? Have you run any updates to any software lately? Is your OS user account a full admin?

Managing Your Templater Licenses Through the Dataclay Website

Jeff — Wed, 12 May 2021 19:00:23 GMT

Sometimes it may become necessary to administer a Templater license independently of the system to which the software is installed. In these cases, Templater licenses can be administered directly through the Dataclay website.

To access these admin tools, navigate to the Dataclay website, click on the “Account” option, and choose “Login or Register”.

Templater licenses are automatically linked to the email address that was used when they were purchased. Logging into your Dataclay account using this email address should give you direct access to the admin features for the license. If no Datclay account has previously been created, click the “Register” link and create a new account using the appropriate email address.

Once you’ve logged in to Dataclay.com with the appropriate account, click on “Account” and then “Licenses and Billing”.

The “Account” page should show all of the license keys associated with the email address as well as information about any Autograf purchases that have been made. You can also click the “Manage Orders and Account” link for additional details about Templater and QUE subscriptions. Additionally, this has links that can be used to activate and deactivate Templater on an offline system. More information about activating Templater offline can be found in this support article.

To manually deactivate a Templater license that’s currently in use, hit the white triangle icon next to the license you want to change.

Click on the red X to deactivate a license.

Confirm the deactivation by hitting YES.

and you should see a dialogue box confirming that the license was successfully deactivated.

Once no activations are seen, the license should be free for use on another system.

By accessing these tools via the Dataclay website, you should be able to administer all of your licenses regardless of their current status. If you run into any problems with this process, please feel free to reach out to support@dataclay.com for further assistance.