Claude Code can now make videos, here’s how

Claude Code can now generate professional animations and videos programmatically using plain English prompts, powered by the Remotion framework and its new agent skills.

• Claude Code now creates professional animations and videos using plain English prompts via Remotion.

• Remotion transforms video creation into React code, making it accessible for AI agents.

• Achieve best results with clear storyboards, iterative prompting, modular compositions, and high-quality assets.

Claude Code has gained the ability to create professional animated videos from text prompts, leveraging Remotion, a framework that generates videos programmatically. This innovation allows AI agents to write React components for video creation, bypassing the need for complex graphical user interfaces and making video production accessible to non-animators. This capability offers a significant advantage for marketing and business growth, enabling fast and cost-effective content creation.

Claude Code for Video Creation

• 00:00:00 Claude Code can now produce professional animations and videos simply from plain English text prompts, eliminating the need for manual animation or UI interaction. This functionality is powered by Remotion, a framework enabling programmatic video creation, with its newly released agent skills allowing AI agents like Claude Code to utilize it. The integration means AI can now not only build products but also market them effectively through dynamically generated video content.

Remotion and Agent Skills Explained

• 00:01:20 Remotion is a Rust-based framework that creates videos programmatically, treating video creation as if recording a website frame by frame from data sources. AI agents excel at writing code, but struggle with complex GUIs; Remotion solves this by transforming video creation into React components, making it accessible for agents to generate beautiful videos. Agent skills are instruction files that teach AI coding agents how to use specific tools, employing 'progressive disclosure' to load only relevant instructions, thereby keeping the context lean and efficient for tasks like video editing.

Best Practices for Using Remotion with AI

• 00:05:01 To achieve optimal results with Claude Code and Remotion, users should begin with a clear storyboard describing each scene before prompting. An iterative approach is crucial, starting with small prompts and refining them through five to ten interactions. Additionally, maintaining modular compositions by building reusable components for elements like intros and transitions is recommended, and providing high-quality assets significantly enhances the final video's outcome.

Practical Setup and Animation Examples

• 00:05:51 Setting up Remotion with Claude Code involves a few simple terminal commands to install the necessary packages and agent skills, with options for global or project-specific installation. Once installed, Claude Code can be launched, and its Remotion skill activated, allowing users to start generating animations with detailed prompts. Examples demonstrated include a complex Pythagorean Proofs animation and a quicker advertisement for Claude Code, showcasing the ability to animate by typing plain English and even modify elements like background colors in real-time.