Claude Code Can Now Directly Create Videos

Claude Code can now create videos. Not generate scripts for you to edit, but directly output MP4s.

Remotion's official team has created a Skill for Claude Code. After installing it, you can describe what kind of video you want in natural language, and it can help you generate a complete video project from scratch, including previewing and exporting.

What is Remotion

Remotion is a framework for writing videos with React. Each frame is rendered by React components, so you can precisely control every element on the screen with code.

Animations, transitions, data visualizations, and text effects can all be written with code. No need to learn Premiere, drag timelines, or manually align keyframes.

How to Use

• Install Skill: Clone remotion-dev/skills(https://github.com/remotion-dev/skills) to the local skills directory

• Describe the video you want in Claude Code

• Claude will automatically create a Remotion project and write the component code

• Run the preview, and if you're satisfied, export the MP4

The whole process doesn't require opening any video editing software. For example, here's a short video I had this skill generate based on my blog!

Actual Usage

The generated effect is better than I expected. Claude has a good grasp of Remotion's API, and can correctly implement basic functions such as animations, transitions, and text effects, without me having to debug repeatedly.

But there is an obvious problem: The generated videos are generally very short. In most cases, they are only a few dozen seconds long. If you want to make a complete product introduction video, you have to generate it in segments and then splice it yourself. This is not Remotion's fault, but a common problem with AI-generated video content - most AI video tools can only generate 5-20 second clips.

Other points to note:

• Requires front-end knowledge: If there are problems, you need to be able to understand the error messages and know how to modify the component code

• Rendering takes time: Exporting MP4 requires running rendering, the longer the video, the slower it is

• You still have to come up with the ideas yourself: AI can help you write code, but "what this video is about and how to tell it" is still up to you

In general, it is suitable for making short product demos, feature introductions, and social media materials. If you want to make long videos, you still have to treat it as an auxiliary tool for now.

Who is it for

• Programmers: Want to make a demo video for their open source project, but don't want to learn editing

• Independent developers: Need a promotional video before the product is launched

• Content creators: Want to batch generate short videos with a unified format

The core prerequisite is that you need to know a little front-end, at least be able to understand React code. If you don't understand code at all, this tool has a certain threshold.

Links

• GitHub: remotion-dev/skills

• Remotion Official Website: remotion.dev