New Skill: Remotion Best Practices for Video Creation in React
We’ve added a new creative skill to the directory: Remotion Best Practices from the Remotion team. This skill provides comprehensive guidance for creating programmatic videos using React.
What is Remotion?
Remotion is a powerful library that lets you create videos programmatically using React. Instead of editing videos in traditional software, you write React components that render frames, giving you the full power of JavaScript, CSS, and the React ecosystem for video creation.
What the Skill Covers
The Remotion Best Practices skill includes 28 rule files covering every aspect of Remotion development:
Core Concepts
- Compositions - Define video dimensions, duration, and frame rate
- Animations - Create smooth motion using interpolation and spring physics
- Timing - Control when elements appear and disappear
- Sequencing - Arrange multiple clips in your video timeline
- Transitions - Add professional transitions between scenes
Media Handling
- Videos - Embed and manipulate video files
- Audio - Add soundtracks, voiceovers, and sound effects
- Images - Include static graphics and photos
- GIFs - Embed animated GIFs
- Fonts - Load and use custom typography
Advanced Features
- 3D Content - Create three-dimensional scenes and animations
- Charts - Generate animated data visualizations
- Lottie - Include Adobe After Effects animations
- Text Animations - Animate text with various effects
- Captions - Display subtitles and closed captions
- Transcribe Captions - Generate captions from audio
- Import SRT Captions - Load subtitle files
Developer Tools
- TailwindCSS Integration - Use Tailwind for styling video components
- Calculate Metadata - Dynamically compute video properties
- Measuring DOM Nodes - Get element dimensions for precise layouts
- Measuring Text - Calculate text bounds for positioning
- Extract Frames - Export individual frames from videos
- Can Decode - Check browser codec support
- Trimming - Cut video segments
Media Utilities
- Get Video Duration - Read duration metadata
- Get Video Dimensions - Read width and height
- Get Audio Duration - Read audio file length
Use Cases
This skill is perfect for:
- Automated video generation - Create videos from data, like personalized marketing content
- Social media content - Generate platform-specific video formats programmatically
- Documentation videos - Build technical tutorials with code animations
- Data visualization videos - Turn dashboards into shareable video reports
- Podcast visualizations - Create audiograms with waveforms and captions
Get Started
Browse the Remotion Best Practices skill in the directory to see all the capabilities. The skill integrates seamlessly with Claude Code to help you build video creation workflows using React.
For more information about Remotion itself, visit the official documentation.