Remotion Motion Studio: Steal This Free Skill

Your business needs a short promo video more often than you would like to admit. A product launch. A feature you shipped. A stat worth showing a client. The clip is thirty seconds of work and three days of waiting.

This skill removes the waiting. You install it once, describe the video in a sentence, and Claude Code builds it. Then you fix the color, the timing, and the wording by typing what you want. No timeline, no editing suite, no monthly fee.

Setup is one command. The tool underneath is free and open source.

The Problem This Kills

Making a promo the normal way has a fixed shape. You brief an editor or you open editing software you half remember how to use. You lay out a timeline. You nudge keyframes until the logo lands on the right beat. The brand colors come back a shade off, so you go in again. A fifteen-second clip eats an afternoon, or a day of back-and-forth with someone you are paying by the hour.

For a small company that needs video weekly, that math does not work. So most owners skip the video, or they post something plain, or the launch clip shows up a week after the launch.

The skill changes what the work is. You stop moving pieces on a timeline and start describing the result. The building is the agent's job.

What You Are Installing

The engine is Remotion. It is an open-source library that turns code into video, and Claude Code writes that code for you. You never touch React or learn a timeline. You describe a fifteen-second promo, three feature cards, a call to action, and it assembles the composition.

Two things make it pleasant to use. It runs entirely on your own machine, so nothing uploads, there is no account, and there is no per-minute charge. And it has a live preview that reloads the second the video changes. That is why refining by chat works: the agent edits the code, and you watch the edit land in a window that is already open.

The skill in this download is the wrapper around all of that. It carries the exact setup commands, the fill-in fields for your brand, and three ready-made prompts you can paste as-is.

Set Up The Studio

Open your terminal and check one thing first. Remotion needs Node.js version 16 or newer.

node --version

If the number is 16 or higher, you are ready. If the command is not found or the number is lower, install the current LTS from nodejs.org, then close and reopen the terminal before you check again.

Now create the project and install the skill.

npx create-video --yes --blank my-first-video
cd my-first-video
npm install
npx remotion skills add

The first command scaffolds a blank video project. npm install pulls the packages, which downloads a bit on the first run and never again. The last command installs Remotion's own agent skills, so Claude Code knows the correct way to build a valid composition. If npx remotion skills add is not recognized, use npx skills add remotion-dev/skills instead. Then quit Claude Code fully and reopen it so it loads the new commands.

Last, open the live preview and leave it running.

npx remotion studio

It opens in your browser at http://localhost:3000. If that port is busy it prints a different address in the terminal, so read the terminal and open whatever it shows. Done. The studio is live and will refresh on its own every time the video changes.

Copy The Promo Prompt

This is the first thing to paste. Open a second terminal for Claude Code so the studio keeps running, then hand it this. Replace the values in brackets with yours.

Build a 15 second promo composition called Promo, sized 1920 by 1080.

Beats, in order:
1. 0 to 3 seconds: a dark background in [YOUR BACKGROUND COLOR, e.g. #0B0B0F].
   My logo or product name "[YOUR NAME]" fades and scales in from the center.
   Accent color [YOUR ACCENT COLOR, e.g. #7C3AED].
2. 3 to 11 seconds: three feature cards slide up one at a time, half a second
   apart. The cards read "[FEATURE ONE]", "[FEATURE TWO]", "[FEATURE THREE]".
   Each card has a short subline under it in a lighter gray.
3. 11 to 15 seconds: everything clears to a single call to action, centered and
   bold: "[YOUR CALL TO ACTION]". Underneath, smaller, "[YOUR WEBSITE OR HANDLE]".

Use [YOUR FONT, e.g. Inter] for headings. Keep the motion smooth with gentle
easing, nothing bouncy. When it is built, play it in the studio so I can adjust
timing and colors.

The clip appears in the studio window. From here you talk to it. Say "make the title bigger and bolder." Say "change the accent to #7C3AED." Say "slow the intro to two seconds." Say "swap the second and third cards." Each change lands in the preview within a few seconds. There is no separate save step. Keep going until it looks right.

Two More Prompts To Steal

The skill ships with two other starting points. Same rule: paste one, replace the brackets, refine by talking.

A clean logo sting you can drop at the start or end of anything:

Build a 4 second composition called LogoReveal, sized 1920 by 1080.

Background is a smooth two-tone gradient using [YOUR BACKGROUND COLOR] and a
slightly darker shade of it. My logo text "[YOUR NAME]" starts hidden. Around
0.4 seconds the letters wipe in from left to right, with a soft blur that
sharpens as each letter lands. A thin accent line in [YOUR ACCENT COLOR] draws
itself under the name, left to right, finishing just after the last letter. The
whole mark holds still for the last second so it works as an end card.

Use [YOUR FONT], bold weight. Keep it understated and premium, not flashy.

And a square stat chart, the kind that stops a scroll on social:

Build an 8 second composition called StatChart, sized 1080 by 1080.

1. 0 to 2 seconds: a headline slides in at the top: "[YOUR HEADLINE, e.g.
   Results after 90 days]". Background [YOUR BACKGROUND COLOR], headline in
   [YOUR ACCENT COLOR].
2. 2 to 6 seconds: four horizontal bars grow from the left, one after another,
   a quarter second apart:
   - "[LABEL ONE]" reaching [VALUE ONE]
   - "[LABEL TWO]" reaching [VALUE TWO]
   - "[LABEL THREE]" reaching [VALUE THREE]
   - "[LABEL FOUR]" reaching [VALUE FOUR]
   Each bar's number counts up as the bar grows and stops on the final value.
3. 6 to 8 seconds: a takeaway line fades in at the bottom: "[YOUR TAKEAWAY]".

Use [YOUR FONT]. Bars in [YOUR ACCENT COLOR], text in white or light gray.

Get The MP4 Out

When the clip looks right, render it. You need the composition's id, a short name like Promo or LogoReveal that shows in the studio's left sidebar. It is the name, not the file path.

npx remotion render Promo out/video.mp4

The finished file lands in the out/ folder, ready to post. Render again with a different id for each composition you built. Done. You own the MP4, and nothing left your machine to make it.

What You Get Back

Four things come out of one install:

1. A fifteen-second promo you can rebuild for every launch by swapping the words in the prompt.
2. A logo sting to open or close any video, so your clips start to look like they belong to the same brand.
3. An animated stat chart for a result worth showing, in the square shape social feeds reward.
4. A studio that stays installed. Next week's video is another sentence, not another afternoon.

Honest, The Limits You Should Know

This is not magic and it is not a full editor. A few things to hold in your head.

It runs on your computer, so you need Node.js installed and a few hundred megabytes free. The render takes a moment, longer for longer clips, because the machine is drawing every frame. If you describe a beat vaguely, the agent guesses, so being concrete about seconds and order gets you closer on the first try. And for heavy cinematic work with live footage and audio mixing, a real editor still wins. This is built for clean, on-brand motion graphics: promos, intros, charts, the clips a business actually needs on a weekly rhythm.

Here is the honest comparison.

If your videos are footage-heavy stories, keep the editor. If they are clean graphics you make often, this is the cheaper and faster path.

One companion note. If you would rather understand the raw tool before you install the packaged version, the Remotion walkthrough covers the underlying docs and the manual install. That one is the tool. This one is the skill with the prompts already written for you. And if you have never added a skill to your agent before, start with the five-skill setup, then come back and install this one.

If You Only Do One Thing

Install it tonight and build the fifteen-second promo. Not the chart, not the logo sting, just the one clip. Paste the setup commands, paste the promo prompt with your real brand colors, and change three things by chatting until it looks like yours. You will have a finished MP4 before you would have finished briefing an editor. If it turns out not to be for you, you spent ten minutes and a free install.