# Remotion Create — guide skill for explainers

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Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [Explainers](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/explainers.md)
- **Slug:** `remotion-create`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Remotion (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/remotion-dev/skills/tree/main/skills/remotion-create
- **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:** 218,500 installs, 5,750 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Starts a Remotion video in an empty or existing folder with `npx create-video@latest` and opens the Studio preview before building. It decides whether the piece is a timeline of clips or a multi-scene composition, applies the interactivity conventions and covers TailwindCSS setup.

## Use when

- Starting a new Remotion video or composition
- Adding Remotion to an existing project
- Planning a promo or explainer as scenes

## Install

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

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/d9d5eb0885c9/remotion-create.mp4 — Remotion's 'Hello World' demo: npx create-video --blank, then one prompt creates a sample composition with a glitch effect; this is the rendered result (credit: Remotion (@Remotion), https://x.com/Remotion/status/2051235644370817051)

## How-to tutorials that use it

- [How to turn release notes into a changelog video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/turn-release-notes-into-a-changelog-video.md): Release notes, a PR or a GitHub repo turned into a short video for X or LinkedIn.
- [How to make AI b-roll for your video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-ai-b-roll-for-your-video.md): Cutaway footage for every mention in a voiceover or interview: generated clips, collage or stock-style shots, cut in on time.

## More explainers skills

- [HyperFrames](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes.md): Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- [HyperFrames Slideshow](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-slideshow.md): Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- [Plain-Sight Explainer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-vox-explainer.md): 60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.
- [Remotion Maps](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/remotion-maps.md): Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
- [Higgsfield Video Explainer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-video-explainer.md): Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.
- [Explainer Video Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-explainer-video-guide.md): Plan explainer videos end to end: script formulas, pacing, scene planning, voiceover and assembly.