How to make and edit videos with Claude and Remotion

Go to nodejs.org and download the version marked LTS. Open the file it downloads and click through the installer like any other app.

That is the whole step. Node is the engine Remotion runs on; there is nothing to configure and you will never open it.

Download the Claude desktop app and sign in. This is the version that can work with files and run things on your computer, and it is why this guide has almost no terminal in it.

One thing to know before you start: this needs a paid Claude plan — Pro or above. The free tier does not include it.

Create an empty folder anywhere — your desktop is fine. Call it my-videos.

In Claude, open that folder as your project. Everything from here happens inside it: the video, the images, the finished files. Nothing gets scattered around your computer.

Now stop clicking and start talking. Paste this and send it.

Claude will ask permission to run a couple of commands — say yes. It takes a minute or two, because it is downloading Remotion and the browser it uses to draw each frame.

When it finishes, a page opens in your browser. That is your editor.

Do not skip this. It is the difference between a video you would post and one you would quietly delete.

Claude knows Remotion exists. What it does not know is everything Remotion can do — the audio handling, the transitions, the way it loads fonts and images, what it can pull in from outside. Ask it to go and read, once, and it stops guessing.

You do this a single time per project. Every video you make afterwards is better for it.

This is the Remotion Studio, and it is not a video player: it is your video, alive, updating as things change.

Three parts, and that is all you need to know. Down the left are your videos — you can have several in one folder. In the middle is the frame you are looking at right now. Along the bottom are the pieces the video is made of, each one sitting where it appears in time.

Leave it open on one side of your screen while you work. You are about to watch it change.

Now ask for your own. The example below is the one that made the frame in the screenshot above, and it works because it is specific about the three things Claude cannot guess for you.

The shape. Say vertical for Reels, TikToks and Stories, horizontal for YouTube. Say it out loud — those are completely different videos and there is no default worth guessing.

The look. Your colours, in words or as hex codes. If you have a brand, this is where it goes.

The exact words. Write the text yourself. An AI inventing your own copy is the one thing here that is worse than useless.

Save nothing, click nothing. Say what you want different and watch the studio.

All of these work, and none of them need you to know where a setting lives: “make the orange stronger”, “the big line is too big, drop it a bit”, “give me a horizontal version of this same video for YouTube”, “slow it down so the text is readable”, “put my logo in the top corner”.

This is the part that has no equivalent in an editor. You are not looking for the control that does the thing. You say the thing.

This is the step everyone skips and the one that pays for itself. Before making twenty videos, make the style once and keep it.

Tell it what you like and what you cannot stand. Your colours, your fonts, how fast things move, whether text slides in or just appears. Be picky — this is the conversation that decides whether your videos look like yours or like a template.

The trick that works better than describing: send it pictures. Screenshots from Pinterest, frames from videos you admire, a competitor whose captions you like. It reads them and gets closer in one go than in twenty sentences.

Then ask it to save the result as reusable presets, and to write them down in the project so it does not forget between sessions.

When it looks right, ask for the file. Claude runs the export and tells you where it landed — inside your folder, in a new folder called out.

Ask for the cover image in the same breath. Every network wants a thumbnail, and pulling one out of the video itself beats screenshotting it.

The example in this guide came out as a six-second vertical video of about 700 kB, exported in a few seconds. Longer or busier videos take longer: your own computer is doing the work, which is also why it costs you nothing per export.

This is where the whole thing pays for itself. You built one video; you can now have as many as you want of it, without opening anything.

Give Claude the list and let it run. Same design, same timing, same brand — different words. Five videos, five languages, or one a week for the next three months.

That is the difference between a video and a template, and it is the reason to do this at all.

You have the videos and their covers sitting in a folder. There is exactly one thing left, and Remotion cannot do it: putting them out there. It makes files. It does not have an Instagram account, a posting time or an inbox.

So the last step is the manual one — open each network, upload, write the caption in the format that network wants, pick the hour, repeat. And then keep an eye on the comments and DMs each video brings in, which is the part that actually turns a view into a customer.

That is the half Ignix does. One calendar for 14 networks, the right format for each, published at the hour your audience is awake. Comments that turn into DMs on their own. Every reply from every network landing in one inbox instead of five apps.

And it connects to Claude directly, so the same conversation where you just made the video can schedule the post and set up the automation underneath it.