Setup and Installation

Prerequisites

The only dependencies for Remotion are FFMPEG and Node.js.

Please read these guides to install them in case you haven't yet.

• Installing FFMPEG - Minimum: Version 4.1.0
• Installing Node.js - Minimum: Version 12.10.0

Installation

You can initialize a new Remotion video using

npm

bash
npm init video

bash
npm init video

yarn

bash
yarn create video

bash
yarn create video

That's it! Wait for the installation to be finished and follow the instructions in the terminal.

Additional step for Linux users

Linux users need to install some additional packages to get Chrome/Puppeteer working correctly.

Ubuntu

bash
apt install -y gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget libgbm-dev

bash
apt install -y gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget libgbm-dev

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