remotion-video-creation
affaan-m/ecc
Best practices for building videos in React with Remotion—29 rules covering animations, audio, captions, 3D, and more.
What is remotion-video-creation?
A comprehensive skill for Remotion video creation in React, covering 29 domain-specific rules across animations, audio, captions, charts, 3D content, and transitions. Use this when building or debugging Remotion compositions to access structured guidance on video assets, timing, text, and effects.
- Access 29 domain-specific rules for Remotion video development
- Learn animation, timing, and easing patterns including spring and interpolation curves
- Handle audio: import, trim, adjust volume, speed, and pitch
- Work with captions: display, import SRT files, transcribe audio, and apply TikTok-style formatting
- Embed and manipulate 3D content using Three.js and React Three Fiber
- Create charts and data visualizations within compositions
How to install remotion-video-creation
npx skills add null --skill remotion-video-creationHow to use remotion-video-creation
- 1.Read the relevant rule file(s) for your use case (e.g., rules/animations.md, rules/audio.md, rules/captions.md)
- 2.Review the code examples and explanations in each rule
- 3.Apply the patterns and best practices to your Remotion composition
- 4.Reference multiple rules as needed for complex scenarios combining animations, audio, and effects
Use cases
- Building a video editor or generator that creates dynamic compositions from user input
- Creating animated social-media content with captions, transitions, and effects
- Generating data-driven videos with charts and real-time metadata
- Developing a video transcription and captioning pipeline with audio-to-text
- Building 3D animated sequences or product demos within React
- React developers building video generation tools
- Video engineers automating content creation
- Full-stack developers adding video capabilities to applications
- Developers working with Remotion for the first time seeking best practices
remotion-video-creation FAQ
Remotion is a React library for creating videos programmatically. This skill provides 29 best-practice rules for working with Remotion's core features.
Yes, Remotion is React-based, so familiarity with React components, hooks, and JSX is required.
No, Remotion is designed for pre-rendered video creation. This skill covers composition, rendering, and asset handling for static or pre-generated videos.
No, this skill focuses on composition best practices, animations, audio, captions, and assets. Rendering and export configuration are outside its scope.
Use the calculate-metadata rule to dynamically set composition duration, dimensions, and props based on your content.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from affaan-m/ecc.
name: remotion-video-creation description: Best practices for Remotion - Video creation in React. 29 domain-specific rules covering 3D, animations, audio, captions, charts, transitions, and more. metadata: tags: remotion, video, react, animation, composition, three.js, lottie
When to use
Use this skills whenever you are dealing with Remotion code to obtain the domain-specific knowledge.
How to use
Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples:
- rules/3d.md - 3D content in Remotion using Three.js and React Three Fiber
- rules/animations.md - Fundamental animation skills for Remotion
- rules/assets.md - Importing images, videos, audio, and fonts into Remotion
- rules/audio.md - Using audio and sound in Remotion - importing, trimming, volume, speed, pitch
- rules/calculate-metadata.md - Dynamically set composition duration, dimensions, and props
- rules/can-decode.md - Check if a video can be decoded by the browser using Mediabunny
- rules/charts.md - Chart and data visualization patterns for Remotion
- rules/compositions.md - Defining compositions, stills, folders, default props and dynamic metadata
- rules/display-captions.md - Displaying captions in Remotion with TikTok-style pages and word highlighting
- rules/extract-frames.md - Extract frames from videos at specific timestamps using Mediabunny
- rules/fonts.md - Loading Google Fonts and local fonts in Remotion
- rules/get-audio-duration.md - Getting the duration of an audio file in seconds with Mediabunny
- rules/get-video-dimensions.md - Getting the width and height of a video file with Mediabunny
- rules/get-video-duration.md - Getting the duration of a video file in seconds with Mediabunny
- rules/gifs.md - Displaying GIFs synchronized with Remotion's timeline
- rules/images.md - Embedding images in Remotion using the Img component
- rules/import-srt-captions.md - Importing .srt subtitle files into Remotion using @remotion/captions
- rules/lottie.md - Embedding Lottie animations in Remotion
- rules/measuring-dom-nodes.md - Measuring DOM element dimensions in Remotion
- rules/measuring-text.md - Measuring text dimensions, fitting text to containers, and checking overflow
- rules/sequencing.md - Sequencing patterns for Remotion - delay, trim, limit duration of items
- rules/tailwind.md - Using TailwindCSS in Remotion
- rules/text-animations.md - Typography and text animation patterns for Remotion
- rules/timing.md - Interpolation curves in Remotion - linear, easing, spring animations
- rules/transcribe-captions.md - Transcribing audio to generate captions in Remotion
- rules/transitions.md - Scene transition patterns for Remotion
- rules/trimming.md - Trimming patterns for Remotion - cut the beginning or end of animations
- rules/videos.md - Embedding videos in Remotion - trimming, volume, speed, looping, pitch
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