Remotion Video Toolkit

Write React components, get real MP4 videos. This skill teaches your AI agent how to build with Remotion — from a first animation to a production rendering pipeline.

29 rules. Every major Remotion feature covered.

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What you can build with this

Personalized video at scale Feed user data as JSON props, render a unique video per user. Think Spotify Wrapped, GitHub Unwrapped, onboarding walkthroughs — one template, thousands of outputs.

Automated social media clips Pull live data (stats, leaderboards, product metrics) and render daily or weekly video posts without anyone touching a timeline editor.

Dynamic ads and marketing videos Swap in customer name, product image, pricing. Same template, infinite variations. Render server-side via API or Lambda.

Animated data visualizations Turn dashboards and KPI reports into shareable video clips with animated charts and transitions.

TikTok and Reels captions Transcribe audio, display word-by-word highlighted subtitles, export ready for upload.

Product showcase videos Auto-generate from your database — images, specs, pricing — straight to MP4.

Educational and explainer content Animated course materials, certificate videos, step-by-step walkthroughs — all driven by code.

Video generation as a service Expose rendering as an HTTP endpoint. Your app sends JSON, gets back a video file.

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Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• React 18+ (Remotion renders React components frame-by-frame)
• Remotion — scaffold with npx create-video@latest
• FFmpeg — ships with @remotion/renderer, no separate install needed
• For serverless rendering: AWS account (Lambda) or GCP account (Cloud Run)

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What's inside

Core

Rule	Description
Compositions	Define videos, stills, folders, default props, dynamic metadata
Rendering	CLI, Node.js API, AWS Lambda, Cloud Run, Express server patterns
Calculate metadata	Set duration, dimensions, and props dynamically at render time

Animation and timing

Rule	Description
Animations	Fade, scale, rotate, slide
Timing	Interpolation curves, easing, spring physics
Sequencing	Delay, chain, and orchestrate scenes
Transitions	Scene-to-scene transitions
Trimming	Cut the start or end of any animation

Text and typography

Rule	Description
Text animations	Typewriter, word highlight, reveal effects
Fonts	Google Fonts and local font loading
Measuring text	Fit text to containers, detect overflow

Media

Rule	Description
Videos	Embed, trim, speed, volume, loop, pitch shift
Audio	Import, trim, fade, volume and speed control
Images	The Img component
GIFs	Timeline-synced GIF playback
Assets	Importing any media into compositions
Decode check	Validate browser compatibility

Captions and subtitles

Rule	Description
Transcribe captions	Audio to captions via Whisper, Deepgram, or AssemblyAI
Display captions	TikTok-style word-by-word highlighting
Import SRT	Load existing .srt files

Data visualization

Rule	Description
Charts	Animated bar charts, line graphs, data-driven visuals

Advanced

Rule	Description
3D content	Three.js and React Three Fiber
Lottie	After Effects animations via Lottie
TailwindCSS	Style compositions with Tailwind
DOM measurement	Measure element dimensions at render time

Media utilities

Rule	Description
Video duration	Get length in seconds
Video dimensions	Get width and height
Audio duration	Get audio length
Extract frames	Pull frames at specific timestamps

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Quick start

# Scaffold a project
npx create-video@latest my-video

# Preview in browser
cd my-video && npm start

# Render to MP4
npx remotion render src/index.ts MyComposition out/video.mp4

# Pass dynamic data
npx remotion render src/index.ts MyComposition out.mp4 --props '{"title": "Hello"}'

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Contribute

Source: github.com/shreefentsar/remotion-video-toolkit

Missing something? Found a better approach? Open a PR — new rules, improved examples, bug fixes all welcome.

Built by Zone 99

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关联技能说明

本技能（remotion-video-toolkit）是 Remotion 相关技能的主入口，以下两个已归档技能的内容均已整合于本技能：

remotion（已归档）

原始参考技能，专注于 Remotion 规则的逐一说明。内容已全部迁移至上方规则表格（rules/ 目录下），使用方式完全相同。

remotion-best-practices（已归档）

最佳实践技能，内容与 remotion-video-toolkit 完全重叠。所有最佳实践规则均已收录于 rules/ 目录，无需单独引用。

使用方式：直接使用本技能，通过上方规则表格中的链接跳转到具体规则文件即可。