Remotion Video Toolkit

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.

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.

Requirements

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 |

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"}'

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

# 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"}'