Motion Design · Oct 26, 2026

Claude Code + Remotion is the After Effects replacement almost nobody has set up yet, and the whole…

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Claude Code + Remotion is the After Effects replacement almost nobody has set up yet, and the whole setup is 4 commands This video was made exactly that way: Opus 5.5 wrote every frame of it as React code in Remotion, with no timeline, keyframes or editing app involved Here's everything you need to get the same stack running: > npx create-video@latest --yes --blank my-video creates a blank Remotion project, React and TypeScript included > cd my-video && npm install pulls in everything Remotion needs to render, FFmpeg included > npx skills add remotion-dev/skills is the step most people skip, and it's the one that matters most: the official skills teach Claude useCurrentFrame(), interpolate(), spring() and <Sequence>, so the code doesn't fall apart on your first revision > npm run dev opens Remotion Studio in your browser, where Claude writes the code and you watch every change live All you need beforehand is Node.js LTS and Claude Code From there it's one clear brief, a few…
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