Claude Code is Taking Video Editor Jobs Now (Remotion Skills)

Claude Code can now create videos, and they're actually pretty good. This week, Remotion dropped a set of skills that allow Claude Code to create videos just through prompting. Everything you see here was generated by these skills, and you're able to edit individual scenes, add assets, have Claude go out on the internet and find assets on your behalf, and it spawns a video editor in your local browser.

And in today's video, I'm going to teach you how it works, how to set it up for yourself, what the best practices are, and we'll even have a discussion about whether this tool is actually going to be taking the jobs of video editors. So, this prompt to video functionality is a combination of Remotion and their agent skills and Claude code. But it's not just Claude code.

It also works with things like anti-gravity and open code. Now, how does this actually work under the hood? Well, Claude is coding React components that make up the individual frames that make up the video.

So, imagine a video that's 30 frames per second and it runs for 5 seconds, right? 180 frames. Well, it's coding each individual frame, putting them all together, and you get your video.

Now, what should get you really excited isn't that it can just create videos from a prompt, but that we can edit these videos through prompting as well. What you see right here is a video created by Claude Code. And I told it, hey, create like a 20 second video going over the biggest stories in the NBA so far this season.

And it not only created the video, but it gave us this entire video editor. So, what do we see? Well, we are inside of our local host.

It spawned this video editor for us. And it didn't just give us an MP4 file. It gave us, you know, all our scenes and all our frames broken down.

It gave us assets over here on the left. So what we can do now is we don't have to restart the video from scratch every time we want to make an edit. I can just tell it the individual scene.

I can say the exact frame and say, "Hey, I want to fix this. " So for example, here we are, scene three, the MVP race. If we zoom in right here, we can kind of see that the MVP race and the MVP ladder text boxes are kind of stacked on one another kind of weirdly.

Well, I can just tell it fix that and it's going to do it. So, here I am inside of Cloud Code and I just say, "Hey, in scene three of the NBA report, the MVP race slide, the two text boxes are overlapping. Fix that.

" And now it's just going to go ahead and rewrite the code. And that change will be populated automatically inside of the editor. And there's our change basically right away.

Pretty awesome stuff. So, now you're probably asking, "Cool, how do I actually do this for myself and how do I set it up? " Well, luckily, it's actually really easy.

So, let me walk you through it. So, we will need two things from Remotion to get started. First, we need to add the skills.

And I'll put this command down inside the description. These skills are essentially just a series of prompts for Claude Code to let it know how to best use Remotion. This way, we rely on the skills instead of relying on some super master secret prompt to actually get Claude Code to create good video with Remotion.

So, you're just going to copy this command. You're going to hop inside your terminal. You're going to paste it in there.

And then, you're just going to hit enter. You'll see something like this pop up. Then it's going to ask you which agent to install the skills in.

So choose whichever one you're using. And then from there it will ask you the scope. I suggest just doing it globally.

Once we have installed the skills, next thing we need to do is get our project started. So we're going to do this command. Again it will be in the description.

You can also find it at reotion. dev. Head back to your terminal.

At this point you should be inside your project folder where you actually want to run this. So paste it in there. Start it.

This is just like starting a React app. So, it's going to give you a bunch of options. What I want you to do is go down to blank.

Hit enter. Yes. Yes.

And then it's going to ask you if you want to open it in VS Code or cursor and say yes. And you'll see here on the left, it has installed a bunch of files for you. So, you're ready to go.

Now, all this stuff like cursor. jemini. open code, you know, you can delete these if you don't need them.

So, for example, if you're using cloud code or same goes for if you're using cursor, if you're using open code instead. Now, at this point, you're pretty much ready to go. To get started, it says to run the npmi and npm rundev command.

Just open up a new terminal and run those. And that will get your browser essentially set up with that video editor. And once you've done that, now you can actually start Claude Code.

So, we're going to get Claude Code started up. And at this point, you can tell Claude Code, hey, I installed a bunch of Remotion stuff for you. Go ahead, check it out, take a look at the skills, get sort of spun up on what we're going to do, and I'm going to now have you create some videos.

That's always like something I like to do. So, now let's actually use this thing. So, I have opened up Claude Code.

I'm telling it, I just want to create a 20 second video using the Remotion skills highlighting the features of this GitHub repo, and I pointed towards the GSD repo. Now, what's the GSD repo? If you've seen any of my previous videos, kind of in love with this thing lately.

It's just a framework for Cloud Code for helping you create apps. But the idea that we're showing off here is I just gave it the URL of something and it should essentially scrape this entire page. It should also grab assets from this repo and then it should also figure out, okay, hey, in 20 seconds, what would be the best things to highlight from here, right?

And you can kind of see real quickly the cool applications we have with this sort of video generation, right? Throw it a URL. Tell it to create a video about your web page.

Give it a code base. Tell it to create an explainer video in 30 seconds about what your code does and sort of like the big features, you know, because it doesn't just create videos. Like we have the power of cloud code here, right?

It can do a ton of research on our behalf. It can do a bunch of quote unquote thinking that you would expect a human to do if you said, "Hey, do some research about this video we're going to create. " Right?

So, tons of really neat applications here, especially, you know, when you combine these two things, right? It goes beyond just, oh, it creates videos. So, let's see what it does.

We'll come back. Oh, and one more thing. I have it on plan mode first.

Highly suggest you do that because we want to make sure even though we we don't need to oneshot everything. I want the first pass to be as good as possible cuz I know I can edit it down the line and get real granular, but I want to see sort of its thinking on the video side and what it determines is actually important or not. So, here's the plan.

It came up with five slides for a 20 second video. Hero intro talks about the context raw problem, agent architecture, workflow, pipeline, and then a CTA outro. Okay, on the surface that makes sense and then proceeds to go a little bit more in depth of what this is going to look like now.

Okay, typewriter effect, right? Large. Uh, so it's going to use that GSD logo, right?

So, I'm assuming it's actually going to pull that in as an asset. So, lots of cool stuff here. Um, and this is honestly just yeah, the existing components.

I think this is sort of the best um workflow you should use for this where you kind of just go plan mode first. But at this point, just let it go forth and conquer. have it start coding and we'll see what the final output looks like after this.

And one last little tip, I'm always super suspect of cloud code using all the skills it should. So I also ask at the end before I have it go in code like did you use all the remote skills just to make me feel better. Okay, so it's telling us it finished the video.

So we're just going to head to localhost 3001 in this case and take a look. So we can see here over on the left it created GSD video for us and we have our timeline down here on the bottom. Now remember this is the first pass.

So let's see how it did at its first attempt. So we got the typewriter effect. Got sort of the motion graphics with the bar.

Got the four things around the GSD. Kind of got the little gradient in the background. Okay.

Now was that perfect on the first pass? No. But that is a solid base to go from.

Right. That took Claude about five minutes to put that together. If I asked you to put that together, person who does not have a motion graphics background.

How long would that take you? And there's a lot of good things we can take from this. Now, one thing I was hoping it would do, which it didn't, was I kind of wanted it to take that GSD asset from the GitHub.

So, we can tell it to do that, or we can just drop the asset in here on the left ourselves, or I can just feed into cloud code. So, let's do that. So, I'm actually just going to take a screenshot of this.

So, I dropped that screenshot in there and I'm saying, "Hey, can we use this screenshot of the GSD logo as an asset? Edit it as needed. " Instead of the GSD text you've used in this video, right?

So, I'm actually feeding it assets. So, let's see how that works out. And again, like you saw also in the um let's bring it up the NBA video, right?

All these assets of like, you know, the NBA in the background, you know, SGA, um Kate Cunningham, like I didn't feed it any of these. I didn't even do what we just did in cloud code. I actually told it, hey, just go out on the web and find assets that make sense.

What I also did in this particular one, you notice there's like little cool subtle animations, right? You can see sort of a subtle red um behind Cade, the subtle blue behind SGA. I didn't tell it to do that.

What I actually did at one point was after it went through its first run, I was like, "Hey, if you were an expert motion graphics artist or designer, like what would you say are some improvements we can make? " It came up with like 10 improvements, and I just had it add the ones I felt made sense. So that again, how long would this take you if you had none of these skills before?

Now this is just this is just a prompt away. And kind of going into what we uh alluded to in the intro of like is this taking motion graphic jobs? Is this taking video editor jobs?

I I mean this just came out 2 days ago. This is just like the first iteration of it. So no, not yet.

But like with anything with AI, it's just raising the floor significantly for those of us who don't show up with these skills. You know, like I said, I created this what in 20 minutes. Would have taken me 20 hours otherwise.

So, let's see how our asset thing ended up working out, though. So, it says it updated it and we can see, hey, there's our GSD asset. Now, it's just using the screenshot itself.

What would be nice is if we turned it into a proper PNG, so we could have like sort of a transparent background, but you can see here, right? Actually did a pretty good job of like adding a border around it and that sort of thing. You know, looks looks a lot better here than it did before.

So, but and that took about one minute for it to do all that. Again, super cool. Like, you can just continue to edit and edit and edit.

And that for all intents and purposes is how you use Remotion inside of Claude Code. Like, that's the workflow. It's nothing special.

It's actually really easy. Now, once you're finally good with the video, it's as easy as just hitting render down here on the bottom right. And then from there, you can actually download the video and post it.

So, yeah, sick tool. So, this is where I'm going to leave you. As for more resources, quick plug for the school down in the comments below.

I got the free school. Again, all the resources there are free, including tons of Claude code guides and any templates. The paid school is more for if you're someone who's a bit more serious about the stuff and you're trying to figure out, well, how can I use these skills to actually make money?

And speaking of that, I'm also putting on a free webinar this Saturday, the 31st. You can register for that in the comments as well. I'm going to sort of break down my philosophy and from my experience of how you can actually make money from the view of an AI agency because I think there is a lot of misinformation out there.

So, let me know what you thought about this in the comments.