# Remotion Best Practices — guide skill for tools & renderers

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Make videos in React with Remotion: the router that loads the right Remotion skill for each step.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Tools & renderers](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/tooling.md)
- **Slug:** `remotion-best-practices`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Remotion (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/remotion-dev/skills/tree/main/skills/remotion-best-practices
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Node.js, Remotion 4
- **Cost:** Free — local render (Remotion company license for larger for-profit teams)
- **Adoption:** 689,600 installs, 5,750 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Remotion's top-level skill, generated from the Remotion monorepo, routes an agent through creating a project, writing React markup and animation, maps, multimedia, captions, interactivity, previewing in Remotion Studio, rendering, building an app on the Player and upgrading. It bundles every sub-skill's reference files and sets house rules such as preserving the user's edits and opening the preview before rendering.

## Use when

- Any Remotion task when unsure which skill applies
- Creating a programmatic video in React
- Previewing, rendering or captioning a Remotion composition

## Not for

- HTML-first videos without React (use HyperFrames)

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add remotion-dev/skills --skill remotion-best-practices -a gemini-cli`

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/remotion-best-practices.mp4 — Remotion's Agent Skills launch post: 'This animation was created just by prompting' with the skill (terminal install, then 'Agent Skills now available') (credit: Remotion (@Remotion), https://x.com/Remotion/status/2013626968386765291)

## Used for

- [SaaS launch or product promo](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/launch-video.md): A polished launch film for an app or website: UI cards, device mockups, kinetic type, music.
- [Photo slideshow to music](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/photo-slideshow.md): Your photos cut to music, with motion, transitions on the beat and titles.
- [Animated chart or data video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/data-video.md): Numbers from a CSV or a report as an animated chart: bar race, line, hero number.
- [Personalized videos at scale](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/personalized-videos.md): One template, many versions: each lead's name, company and website in the video, optionally in a cloned voice.

## More tools & renderers skills

- [varg AI](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-ai.md): The official varg skill: videos, images, speech and music through one API key, rendered in the cloud or locally.
- [Media Download](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/media-download.md): Save any video by link (X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, 1800+ sites) or Pinterest images as references, locally, no key.
- [Templates Gallery Ops](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-templates-section.md): Internal runbook for the varg app Templates gallery: publish renders, preview clips, frame-0 posters, shelves.
- [HyperFrames CLI](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-cli.md): Drive the HyperFrames CLI: scaffold, check, preview, snapshot, edit the timeline, render locally or in the cloud.
- [HyperFrames Registry](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-registry.md): Pull any of ~450 ready-made blocks into a video as editable source: transitions, titles, captions, charts, 3D.
- [HyperFrames Media Use](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-media-use.md): Find or make every asset a video needs: music, SFX, voiceover, images, logos, avatars, transcripts, grades.