# Remotion Best Practices

Routes to the right Remotion skill for building videos in React.

- Repository: https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion (69731 stars)
- Category: Media
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

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

## Description

Router for all Remotion skills

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

## Preserve user changes

Users may make edits in the code outside of the conversation.

If you detect a surprising change made in the meanwhile, don't overwrite it, assume it was intentional or ask for confirmation.

## Creating a video

If the user asks to make, create, or build a new video or composition, load [Create a new Remotion video](./remotion-create/REFERENCE.md), whether or not a Remotion project already exists.

## New project setup

If no Remotion project currently exists, load [Create a new Remotion project](./remotion-create/REFERENCE.md)

## React Markup Best Practices

If you are writing Remotion React Markup, load [Remotion Markup Best Practices](./remotion-markup/REFERENCE.md)

## Maps

For static maps, animated routes and markers, geographic explainers, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler, GeoJSON, or 3D geographic flyovers, load [Remotion Maps](./remotion-maps/REFERENCE.md).

## Multimedia

For achieving multimedia tasks in the browser, such as trimming, cropping videos, or getting metadata from them, load [Remotion Multimedia](./remotion-multimedia/REFERENCE.md)

## Improving Interactivity

By structuring the Remotion markup well, we can allow users to interactively change things in the Studio and write back to code. If relevant: [Interactivity Best Practices](./remotion-interactivity/REFERENCE.md)

## Rendering

For advanced rendering beyond simple `npx remotion render`, see: [Rendering Best Practices](./remotion-render/REFERENCE.md)

## Opening Remotion Studio

When creating or editing a video, start Studio and open its preview as soon as the project can run, before building the composition. Keep it open while you work so the user can see changes and steer.

To launch a project in Remotion Studio, open its exact local URL, or configure Studio CLI flags, load [Remotion Studio](./remotion-studio/REFERENCE.md).

## Captions

When working with Captions, load [Remotion Captions](./remotion-captions/REFERENCE.md).

The rest: https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion/blob/HEAD/packages/codex-plugin/skills/remotion-best-practices/SKILL.md