Remotion Best Practices
Best practices for Remotion - Video creation in React
by Athina AInpx gooseworks install --all # then, in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex: /gooseworks use the remotion-best-practices skill
When to use
Use this skills whenever you are dealing with Remotion code to obtain the domain-specific knowledge.
Captions
When dealing with captions or subtitles, load the ./rules/subtitles.md file for more information.
Using FFmpeg
For some video operations, such as trimming videos or detecting silence, FFmpeg should be used. Load the ./rules/ffmpeg.md file for more information.
Audio visualization
When needing to visualize audio (spectrum bars, waveforms, bass-reactive effects), load the ./rules/audio-visualization.md file for more information.
How to use
Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples:
- rules/3d.md - 3D content in Remotion using Three.js and React Three Fiber
- rules/animations.md - Fundamental animation skills for Remotion
- rules/assets.md - Importing images, videos, audio, and fonts into Remotion
- rules/audio.md - Using audio and sound in Remotion - importing, trimming, volume, speed, pitch
- rules/calculate-metadata.md - Dynamically set composition duration, dimensions, and props
- rules/can-decode.md - Check if a video can be decoded by the browser using Mediabunny
- rules/charts.md - Chart and data visualization patterns for Remotion (bar, pie, line, stock charts)
- rules/compositions.md - Defining compositions, stills, folders, default props and dynamic metadata
- rules/extract-frames.md - Extract frames from videos at specific timestamps using Mediabunny
- rules/fonts.md - Loading Google Fonts and local fonts in Remotion
- rules/get-audio-duration.md - Getting the duration of an audio file in seconds with Mediabunny
- rules/get-video-dimensions.md - Getting the width and height of a video file with Mediabunny
- rules/get-video-duration.md - Getting the duration of a video file in seconds with Mediabunny
- rules/gifs.md - Displaying GIFs synchronized with Remotion's timeline
- rules/images.md - Embedding images in Remotion using the Img component
- rules/light-leaks.md - Light leak overlay effects using @remotion/light-leaks
- rules/lottie.md - Embedding Lottie animations in Remotion
- rules/measuring-dom-nodes.md - Measuring DOM element dimensions in Remotion
- rules/measuring-text.md - Measuring text dimensions, fitting text to containers, and checking overflow
- rules/sequencing.md - Sequencing patterns for Remotion - delay, trim, limit duration of items
- rules/tailwind.md - Using TailwindCSS in Remotion
- rules/text-animations.md - Typography and text animation patterns for Remotion
- rules/timing.md - Interpolation curves in Remotion - linear, easing, spring animations
- rules/transitions.md - Scene transition patterns for Remotion
- rules/transparent-videos.md - Rendering out a video with transparency
- rules/trimming.md - Trimming patterns for Remotion - cut the beginning or end of animations
- rules/videos.md - Embedding videos in Remotion - trimming, volume, speed, looping, pitch
- rules/parameters.md - Make a video parametrizable by adding a Zod schema
- rules/maps.md - Add a map using Mapbox and animate it
- rules/voiceover.md - Adding AI-generated voiceover to Remotion compositions using ElevenLabs TTS
What's included
Video Production Harness
Full video production sequence with script review, actual ingredient choices, controlled generation, editing, evidence-based quality review, polish, captions and delivery. A host binding supplies project storage, authentic approvals, provider access and billing.
Render Street Interview
Build a vox-pop street interview video ad. An interviewer with a handheld mic asks passers-by one question about the brand's product, they give blunt wrong guesses, one gives the real answer, and the cut lands on a branded end card. Generates the takes through the GooseWorks fal proxy (Seedance 2.0 with native voice), then grades, re-cuts, captions and gates them locally. Use for the street-interview format.
Write Video Ad Script
Write the words of a short-form video ad (voiceover, dialogue, chat bubbles, on-screen lines) the way performance creative teams do instead of from a blank page. Builds the script from the buyers' own words, the beat sheet of an ad that already works and three deliberately different angles, filters them with a rule check and a second non-Claude model, and takes the strongest into the review with the other two as one-line swaps. Use it in every video ad run before any paid step, and whenever the user asks to write, rewrite or improve a video ad script or says a script sounds generic or AI-written.