remotion-agent-video

Remotion Agent Video Creation

Remotion v4.0.4xx lets you create videos programmatically with React — and now ships first-party agent skills.

Agent Skills

Install Remotion's official skills for AI coding agents:

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills

This adds skills for: Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor with best practices for Remotion projects.

New Effects (@remotion/effects)

v4.0.4xx adds a composable effects ecosystem:

Effect	Description
cornerPin	Perspective/distortion corner pinning
lightTrail	Motion light trail effect
checkerboard	Checkerboard transition pattern
emboss	3D emboss effect
gridlines	Grid overlay
zoomBlur	Zoom-based radial blur
radialProgressiveBlur	Progressive blur from center out
linearGradient	Linear gradient overlay

Composable: stack multiple effects on a single <Sequence>.

Studio Improvements

• Element drag-and-drop in timeline
• Timeline edge dragging for trim
• Sequence renaming
• Inspector controls grouped by category
• Effect context menu
• Keyframe easing handles
• WebGL HtmlInCanvas callbacks preserved

Player Improvements

import { Player } from "@remotion/player";

<Player
  component={MyVideo}
  durationInFrames={120}
  compositionWidth={1920}
  compositionHeight={1080}
  fps={30}
  pixelDensity={2} // fine-grained quality control
/>

• Muted players skip AudioContext creation (avoids autoplay blocks)
• pixelDensity for fine-grained output quality

Getting Started with AI Agents

# Create a new Remotion project
npx create-video

# Install agent skills
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills

# Start the Studio
npx remotion studio

# Render
npx remotion render

AI-Driven Workflow

When using an AI agent with Remotion:

1. Create project via npx create-video with your template
2. Load remotion-agent-video skill so the agent knows the latest APIs
3. Use @remotion/effects for polished transitions (cornerPin, zoomBlur, etc.)
4. Leverage agent skills via npx skills add remotion-dev/skills for guided patterns
5. Render with pixelDensity for high-quality output

Pitfalls

• Agent skills are new — verify suggested patterns against Remotion docs
• Effects system is composable but order matters (effects apply in sequence)
• Large projects may need --timeout flag on render command===ME:remotion-agent-video