Claude Animates Your Videos.
Remotion is an open-source video tool Claude can drive. Tell it what you want - animated captions, title cards, motion graphics on top of your clip - and it builds, previews, and renders the whole thing on your laptop.
with this guide...
Remotion is an open-source video tool. The unlock isn't that you can use it - it's that Claude can. Point Claude at your clip and prompt: animated lower thirds, springy title cards, word-by-word captions, motion graphics on the beat. It builds them, opens a live preview, and renders a clean MP4. No timeline scrubbing, no editor needed.
Animate Your Videos with Claude and Remotion
Install Node.js (the only prerequisite)
Remotion runs on Node, so this is the one thing you need on your machine before anything else. Download the LTS version from nodejs.org - it's a normal installer, takes about a minute. Mac users with Homebrew can run `brew install node` instead.
Download Node.js LTS→Open Claude Code and tell it to install Remotion
Claude Code handles the install, the project scaffold, and the studio setup in one go. Paste the prompt below into a fresh Claude Code session in an empty folder. Yes, that's a terminal. No, you don't need to learn it; that's what my team is for.
Install Remotion in this folder, scaffold a Hello World project, and start the studio so I can preview compositions.Feed Claude your video using its absolute path
Important: you cannot drag-and-drop video files into Claude Code. Claude can only read what it can find on disk, so you have to give it the absolute path. On Mac, right-click the file in Finder, hold Option, and click "Copy as Pathname". On Windows, Shift+right-click and pick "Copy as path". Then paste it into your prompt like this:
Drop /Users/you/Movies/clip.mp4 into the public folder of my Remotion project and wire it up as the base layer of the main composition.Unlock the full guide
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What's inside
- The full Claude-driven Remotion stack - or have my team install it for you
- Animated captions, title cards, motion graphics - all generated by prompting
- Renders locally on your laptop - no per-render fees, no watermarks, no cloud queue
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