# remotion-video

A skill for building MP4, GIF and WebM videos in React, where every frame is a pure function of useCurrentFrame, so renders stay deterministic.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2600 installs · ★ 161
- Author: iart-ai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-06-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/remotion-video

## What it does

The skill walks an agent through Remotion compositions and rendering them via CLI or `@remotion/renderer`. Motion comes from the current frame rather than `setState` or `requestAnimationFrame`: `interpolate` maps an input range to an output range, `spring` gives natural movement. Frames stay scrubbable, diffable and renderable in CI with no GUI.

It covers `<Sequence>` and `<Series>` for placing clips on a timeline, `<Composition>` registration with id, size, fps and `defaultProps`, and a zod schema for type-safe props. For data-dependent duration the skill points to `calculateMetadata` instead of hand math. Audio uses `<Audio>` with beat sync, and beat timestamps are detected offline and baked into props — headless rendering has no realtime audio clock.

Verification runs in stages: cheap single-frame PNGs at start, middle and end, a look for artifacts like overflowing text or a missing font, then the full encode. Two packaged helpers ship with it: `scripts/contact-sheet.sh` tiles stills into one sheet, `scripts/probe-mp4.sh` asserts the encode. Keep all motion frame-driven; timers, `Date.now()` and `Math.random()` break determinism.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill remotion-video -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/remotion-video/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill remotion-video -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill remotion-video -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install iart-ai/motion-design-skills remotion-video
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill remotion-video -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills --path skills/remotion-video
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add iart-ai/motion-design-skills --skill remotion-video -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/iart-ai/motion-design-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/remotion-video/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- render an MP4 from a React composition without a GUI editor
- produce one video per CSV row or database record
- generate title cards and social clips from code
- sync animation to beats in a music track
- inspect frames before paying for a full encode

## Example prompts
- make a Remotion video: 1080x1920 title card at 30 fps with a fading headline
- render Promo to out/promo.mp4 with title and accent props
- check frames 0, 75 and 149 with remotion still, then encode

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: remotion-video
description: This skill should be used when the user asks to "make a video with Remotion", "create a programmatic/data-driven video in React", "render an MP4/GIF from code", "animate with useCurrentFrame/interpolate/spring", "sync video to audio/beats", or "render a templated video per record headlessly". Covers building React compositions and rendering them via CLI or @remotion/renderer.
version: 0.1.0
---

# Remotion (Programmatic Video)

Build real MP4/GIF/WebM videos in React. Every frame is a pure function of `useCurrentFrame()`, so output is deterministic, scrubbable, diffable, and renderable in CI. The code-first alternative to After Effects for templated and data-driven motion graphics.

## When to use

- Render MP4/GIF/WebM from code (social clips, title cards, explainers).
- Templated/data-driven videos: one composition, many outputs from props (per-user, per-record, per-row of a CSV/DB).
- Motion graphics that must be versioned, code-reviewed, and rendered in CI without a GUI.
- Programmatic audio sync, charts that animate from data, or embedding shaders/Three.js into video.

## Core techniques

### Frame-driven animation

Animation is derived from the current frame, never from `setState` or `requestAnimationFrame`. `interpolate` maps an input range to an output range; `spring` produces physically natural motion.

```jsx
import {useCurrentFrame, useVideoConfig, interpolate, spring} from 'remotion';

export const Title = () => {
  const frame = useCurrentFrame();
  const {fps} = useVideoConfig();

  // Fade in over frames 0-30, then stay (clamp prevents over/undershoot).
  const opacity = interpolate(frame, [0, 30], [0, 1], {
    extrapolateLeft: 'clamp',
    extrapolateRight: 'clamp',
  });

  // Spring entrance; divide by spring duration is unnecessary — drive transforms directly.
  const scale = spring({frame, fps, config: {damping: 200, mass: 1, stiffness: 100}});

  return <h1 style={{opacity, transform: `scale(${scale})`}}>Hello</h1>;
};
```

Always clamp `interpolate` unless an intentional overshoot is desired — by default it extrapolates linearly past the range, which produces opacity > 1 or negative values.

### Scheduling: Sequence and Series

`<Sequence>` shifts time: children see `frame` reset to 0 at the sequence's `from`. Use it to place clips on a timeline. `<Series>` lays out back-to-back segments without manual offset math.

```jsx
import {Sequence, Series, AbsoluteFill} from 'remotion';

export const Timeline = () => (
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