GL Transitions in Remotion — effect skill for transitions

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glTransition({name}) turns any gl-transitions shader into a TransitionSeries presentation.

What it does

Built on Cube by gre (gl-transitions), MIT. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Cube, page curl, doorway, morph, burn, kaleidoscope… between any React scenes.

When: Remotion projects needing transitions beyond @remotion/transitions.

Watch out: Mixing name sets: npm 0.1.0 peer-depends on gl-transitions ^1.76.1 (1.x names: cube, crosswarp, burn0); adapter 1.0.0 moves to 2.0 names (Cube, CrossWarp, BurnThrough).

Timing: linearTiming({durationInFrames: 24–30})

Also called: @gl-transitions/remotion, glTransition(), gl-transitions presentation

In Remotion

Remotion ≥ 4.0.500:

npm install gl-transitions @gl-transitions/remotion @remotion/transitions

import {linearTiming, TransitionSeries} from '@remotion/transitions';
import {glTransition} from '@gl-transitions/remotion';

<TransitionSeries.Transition
  presentation={glTransition({name: 'cube', params: {persp: 0.7, unzoom: 0.3}})}
  timing={linearTiming({durationInFrames: 30})} />
// textures: glTransition({name: 'luma', textures: {luma: staticFile('spiral.png')}})

Renders work out of the box (--gl=angle, or --gl=swangle without a GPU); the Studio needs Chrome 149+ with chrome://flags/#canvas-draw-element. Transparent pixels show a captured scene or black, not layers under the series.

Ready-made components

Where this comes from

Use when

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/d162efca1c14/lib-gl-transitions-cross-zoom.mp4 — Preview of the CrossZoom component that builds this take (credit: Rendered by varg from the library’s own code (GL Transitions · rendered by varg), https://gl-transitions.com/editor/CrossZoom)

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