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CSV files and templates

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CSV files and templates

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take a look at CSV files in After Effects templates. Now a lot of times in motion graphic workflows for video editors and even motion graphic designers, it can tend to be slightly tedious. Usually you'll create a graphic, but then need to use that graphic over and over again to populate it with different information. One common motion graphic happens to be the lower third that's used by video editors all the time. While the graphic design remains the same primarily, information such as their name or this instance, country and temperature, change quite a bit. So why not use a CSV file to attach it to a template so that the information in the CSV file is read, and from that you can populate a series of lower thirds, no problem. So let's just take the basic setup that is involved with a CSV file. And if you have access to the exercise files, I recommend that you download those…

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