Router for all Remotion skills

Remotion best practices

by digitalsamba · MIT license · ★ 2,114 on GitHub · v4.0.522 · updated Sep 21

---
name: remotion-best-practices
description: Router for all Remotion skills
version: 4.0.522
---

## Preserve user changes

Users may make edits in the code outside of the conversation.

If you detect a surprising change made in the meanwhile, don't overwrite it, assume it was intentional or ask for confirmation.

## Creating a video

If the user asks to make, create, or build a new video or composition, load [Create a new Remotion video](./remotion-create/REFERENCE.md), whether or not a Remotion project already exists.

## New project setup

Overview

Users may make edits in the code outside of the conversation.

Manual install (npx, ZIP)

Claude Codenpx skills add digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit --skill remotion-best-practices -g -a claude-code

Claude Code (manual)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit/tar.gz/225c80a1c3a5 \
  | tar -xz -C ~/.claude/skills --strip-components=3 claude-code-video-toolkit-225c80a1c3a5/.claude/skills/remotion-official

Windows (PowerShell)

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force "$HOME\.claude\skills" | Out-Null; Invoke-WebRequest "https://m.agentalley.io/zip/97f7907ddc896f535125/remotion-official.zip" -OutFile "$env:TEMP\remotion-official.zip"; Expand-Archive "$env:TEMP\remotion-official.zip" -DestinationPath "$HOME\.claude\skills" -Force

Claude.ai / desktopDownload the ZIP and upload it under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

Codex, Cursor, other agentsPoint them at SKILL.md. The other files are plain text.

Connects with Agent Alley MCP · agentalley.io/mcp

Files included

SKILL.md2.4 KB
agents/1 file · 311 B
assets/1 file · 1.3 KB
remotion-captions/6 files · 12.1 KB
remotion-create/5 files · 4.4 KB
remotion-docs/3 files · 2.9 KB
remotion-interactivity/3 files · 8.9 KB
remotion-maps/32 files · 476.6 KB
remotion-markup/63 files · 571.4 KB
remotion-multimedia/6 files · 6.4 KB
remotion-render/4 files · 4.2 KB
remotion-saas/6 files · 7.9 KB

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SKILL.md2.4 KB

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Preserve user changes

Users may make edits in the code outside of the conversation.

If you detect a surprising change made in the meanwhile, don't overwrite it, assume it was intentional or ask for confirmation.

Creating a video

If the user asks to make, create, or build a new video or composition, load Create a new Remotion video, whether or not a Remotion project already exists.

New project setup

If no Remotion project currently exists, load Create a new Remotion project

React Markup Best Practices

If you are writing Remotion React Markup, load Remotion Markup Best Practices

Maps

For static maps, animated routes and markers, geographic explainers, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler, GeoJSON, or 3D geographic flyovers, load Remotion Maps.

Multimedia

For achieving multimedia tasks in the browser, such as trimming, cropping videos, or getting metadata from them, load Remotion Multimedia

Improving Interactivity

By structuring the Remotion markup well, we can allow users to interactively change things in the Studio and write back to code. If relevant: Interactivity Best Practices

Rendering

For advanced rendering beyond simple npx remotion render, see: Rendering Best Practices

Opening Remotion Studio

To launch a project in Remotion Studio, open its exact local URL, or configure Studio CLI flags, load Remotion Studio.

Captions

When working with Captions, load Remotion Captions.

Creating a SaaS, automation or application

Use the Remotion SaaS skill for knowledge about Remotion-powered SaaS apps, such as <Player>, rendering on Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare, via Express.js, client-side rendering, or for finding the right SaaS template.

Looking up Remotion APIs and documentation

To find and read current Remotion documentation, load Remotion Docs.

Upgrading

To upgrade Remotion, related packages, compatible Mediabunny packages, and installed Remotion Agent Skills, load Remotion Upgrade.

1	---
2	name: remotion-best-practices
3	description: Router for all Remotion skills
4	version: 4.0.522
5	---
6
7	## Preserve user changes
8
9	Users may make edits in the code outside of the conversation.
10
11	If you detect a surprising change made in the meanwhile, don't overwrite it, assume it was intentional or ask for confirmation.
12
13	## Creating a video
14
15	If the user asks to make, create, or build a new video or composition, load [Create a new Remotion video](./remotion-create/REFERENCE.md), whether or not a Remotion project already exists.
16
17	## New project setup
18
19	If no Remotion project currently exists, load [Create a new Remotion project](./remotion-create/REFERENCE.md)
20
21	## React Markup Best Practices
22
23	If you are writing Remotion React Markup, load [Remotion Markup Best Practices](./remotion-markup/REFERENCE.md)
24
25	## Maps
26
27	For static maps, animated routes and markers, geographic explainers, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler, GeoJSON, or 3D geographic flyovers, load [Remotion Maps](./remotion-maps/REFERENCE.md).
28
29	## Multimedia
30
31	For achieving multimedia tasks in the browser, such as trimming, cropping videos, or getting metadata from them, load [Remotion Multimedia](./remotion-multimedia/REFERENCE.md)
32
33	## Improving Interactivity
34
35	By structuring the Remotion markup well, we can allow users to interactively change things in the Studio and write back to code. If relevant: [Interactivity Best Practices](./remotion-interactivity/REFERENCE.md)
36
37	## Rendering
38
39	For advanced rendering beyond simple `npx remotion render`, see: [Rendering Best Practices](./remotion-render/REFERENCE.md)
40
41	## Opening Remotion Studio
42
43	To launch a project in Remotion Studio, open its exact local URL, or configure Studio CLI flags, load [Remotion Studio](./remotion-studio/REFERENCE.md).
44
45	## Captions
46
47	When working with Captions, load [Remotion Captions](./remotion-captions/REFERENCE.md).
48
49	## Creating a SaaS, automation or application
50
51	Use the [Remotion SaaS skill](./remotion-saas/REFERENCE.md) for knowledge about Remotion-powered SaaS apps, such as `<Player>`, rendering on Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare, via Express.js, client-side rendering, or for finding the right SaaS template.
52
53	## Looking up Remotion APIs and documentation
54
55	To find and read current Remotion documentation, load [Remotion Docs](./remotion-docs/REFERENCE.md).
56
57	## Upgrading
58
59	To upgrade Remotion, related packages, compatible Mediabunny packages, and installed Remotion Agent Skills, load [Remotion Upgrade](./remotion-upgrade/REFERENCE.md).
60