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How an Excel spreadsheet saved me hours in After Effects

A production-focused tutorial showing how to use Excel as a control layer for After Effects animations. The efficiency argument is made clearly: changes to data automatically ripple through the animation, eliminating manual keyframe updates. Essential viewing for anyone doing repetitive data visualization work.


Creator Sergei Prokhnevskiy
Year 2022
Platform YouTube
Accessed 10 June 2024
Video license Standard YouTube License
Contributor Oliver Aemisegger
Analysis license CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗