Guide
How to make and edit videos with Claude and Remotion
Three steps, one prompt and no code. Paste it into Claude, show it the style you want, and edit your videos by talking.
Editing videos with Claude does not take a course or a paid skill. It takes three steps and one prompt: Claude installs everything itself, and you edit by talking.
You need the Claude desktop app and a paid Claude plan, Pro or above. Set aside twenty minutes the first time.
Install the Claude app and open a folder
claude.com/download
Download the Claude desktop app and sign in. It has to be the app on your computer: the browser version cannot install or run anything.
Create an empty folder called my-videos, go to the Code tab and open that folder there.
Paste this prompt
That is the whole setup. Claude installs Remotion, which makes the video, and Whisper, which reads your audio for captions and cuts, plus anything your computer is missing. It asks permission before each command: say yes.
When it finishes, you get a 5-second test video and the Remotion Studio open in your browser. That is your editor.
Paste this into Claude Set up this folder so I can edit videos with you. Do everything yourself and only ask for permission when you need it. 1. Check whether I have Node and FFmpeg and install whatever is missing. 2. Install Remotion in this folder and Whisper locally, to transcribe with word-level timing. 3. Before writing code, read the official Remotion docs on compositions, audio, captions and rendering. 4. Save how we work in CLAUDE.md: vertical 1080x1920 video, my raw footage in /videos, export to /output, always transcribe before cutting. 5. Prove it works: render a 5-second video with animated text, open it for me and start Remotion Studio. When it works, ask me for five screenshots of the style I want and save that style in CLAUDE.md.
The studio, running on the machine this guide was written on. Left: your videos. Middle: the current frame. Bottom: the pieces it is made of. Show it your style and edit by talking
Claude will ask for five screenshots of the style you want. Send frames from videos you admire: it gets closer that way than with twenty sentences, and it keeps that style for every video.
Then put your raw video in the videos folder and say what you want. If something is off, say that too: “make the text smaller”, “cut that pause”, “undo that”. When you like it, ask for the MP4.
Say this to Claude These clips in /videos are takes of the same piece to camera. Join them in order, cut the silences, add captions in my style and export the MP4 to /output.The loop, and why there is no Save button in it In an editor you look for the control that does the thing. Here you say the thing.
You say it
“Make the orange stronger.” “The big line is too big.” “Give me a horizontal version.”
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Claude rewrites the video
It edits the project, not a setting. There is nothing for you to find, open or save.
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The frame in front of you changes
The studio redraws on its own, while you are still looking at it. Then you say the next thing.
And back to the top, as many times as you like. The twentieth change costs exactly what the first one did — which is the thing an editor can never say.
Tip · Ask for the cut list before the export: “tell me what you are going to remove and why”. You get to disagree once, before a long render.
What this does not do
This only edits. It has no sound effects, it does not generate images or clips, and it does not come with reel templates. And your videos still have to be posted and your comments answered.
Ignix has all of that ready. Connect Claude once and, in the same conversation, you get templates, sound effects, the images and clips you are missing, scheduling across your networks, and replies to your comments and DMs.
A few things worth knowing
None of these will stop you today. All of them will surprise you in a month if nobody tells you now.
- Your own computer does the work
- There is no cloud and no queue: exporting happens on your machine. A few seconds of text is instant. A two-minute video with heavy effects will make a laptop breathe hard. Nothing breaks, it just takes longer.
- Music works. Mixing by ear does not
- You can add a track or a voiceover, trim it and set where it starts. What you will not get is a waveform to drag around. If an edit needs you to feel your way through the audio, cut that part somewhere else.
Questions people actually ask
- Do I really not need to know how to code?
- No. Claude writes it and changes it; you describe what you want and look at the result. You install one app — Claude — and it takes care of the rest while you watch. The only real skill involved is describing what you want clearly, which is the same skill that makes a good brief for a human editor.
- What does it cost?
- Remotion is free for individuals and small teams, and exporting on your own machine costs nothing per video — no watermark, no export limit, no subscription. The one paid part is Claude: this needs a Pro plan or above.
- Is this better than CapCut or Premiere?
- For one video that you feel your way through, no — use an editor. For the same video in ten versions, five languages, or every week with different words, it is not close. The question is whether you are making a video or a template.
- Can Claude edit a video I already have?
- Yes — put the file in the folder and ask. It can join several takes, trim them, cut out the silences, lay b-roll over a section while the original sound keeps running, and put your captions, logo and end card on top. What it does not do is the frame-by-frame work of a colourist or a sound engineer: if a cut needs you to feel your way through it, that one belongs in an editor.
And once it is exported
Making the video was the fun half
You just set yourself up to make fifty videos from one folder. Now count what comes after: fifty uploads, five networks, five caption formats, fifty times picking an hour — and then every comment and every DM those videos bring in, arriving in apps you open one at a time.
None of that gets faster by exporting faster. It is the same evening it always was, except now you have more videos to feed it.
Ignix is that other half. Everything that happens after the file exists: publishing it, timing it, and answering the people it brings you.
Publish everywhere from one place
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Threads, Pinterest and the rest — plus your own website. One video, one calendar, every format handled.
More than one account per network
Two Instagram profiles, three TikToks, a client and your own — all in the same workspace. Most tools make you buy another seat or another plan for that.
Comments turn into DMs by themselves
Someone comments your keyword under the video and the link lands in their inbox, at three in the morning, without you.
One inbox for all of it
DMs, comments and reviews from every network in a single stream. Nothing sits unanswered because it arrived on the app you had not opened.
An AI that knows your business
Feed it your prices, your policies and your tone once, and it answers like someone who works there — and hands the conversation to you the moment it should.
And the AI that makes the assets
Captions, images and video generation built in, plus a direct connection to Claude so it can schedule your posts and run your automations.
That last point matters here more than usual: Ignix connects to Claude directly. The same conversation where you just made the video schedules the post, builds the comment automation underneath it and tells you how the last one did. You made the video by talking; you can publish it the same way.
Unlimited automations on every plan, with 1,000 DMs a month on Spark and 10,000 on Blaze. Beyond that, the plan sets how many accounts you connect. And if you write to us and we take longer than 24 hours to answer, weekends included, that month is on us.
Plans start at $19 a month. Seven days free, no annual contract, and you can cancel in two clicks.
Make the video by talking to Claude. Publish it, schedule it and answer it from one place. Ten minutes to set up, and you can cancel in two clicks.