framechart

Most data visualization tools are built for dashboards, not video. If you need an animated chart for a YouTube video, a client deliverable, a broadcast package, or a social clip, you're stuck in one of two bad options: hand-animate every bar and label in After Effects, which is slow and has to be redone whenever the data changes, or export a "video" from a web charting library, which looks exactly like what it is — a browser recording, not something a motion designer made. framechart closes that gap. It's a DaVinci Resolve OFX plugin that renders animated data charts — bar charts, bar races, line races, and tables — directly inside your timeline, at the visual quality bar of motion graphics work rather than web export. That means proper sub-frame motion blur instead of temporal blending, physically-based easing instead of linear tweens, and GPU-accelerated rendering through Vulkan, Metal, or DirectX 12 rather than a headless browser screenshotting itself 30 times a second. The workflow is declarative: you describe your data and how it should animate — durations, easing, stagger, enter/exit behavior — and framechart renders the scene as a clip you can drop straight onto your timeline like any other piece of footage. Change the underlying data or the animation timing, re-render, and the clip updates — no re-keyframing, no rebuilding the composition by hand, no round-tripping between your data source and your NLE. It's aimed at editors, motion designers, and data journalists who need chart animation to look like it belongs in the same edit as the rest of their footage — smooth motion, correct blur, real easing curves — without spending hours per chart in a keyframe editor. Typical uses include YouTube data explainers, "race" charts (bar race / line race) for social and broadcast, and dashboards or tables that need to animate into a video deliverable rather than sit static in a web page. framechart currently supports bar charts, bar races, line races, and tables, with more chart types planned. It installs as a standard OFX plugin and works inside DaVinci Resolve's existing color/GPU pipeline, so it fits into an editor's workflow rather than asking them to leave it.

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