Creating a new project

Using ChatGPT

If you have the ChatGPT desktop app, it can create a complete Remotion project that you can edit, run, and render locally using the Remotion plugin.

Create with ChatGPT

Coding Agent Prompt

Paste into a coding agent, such as Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode:

Ensure Node.js is installed.
Install Remotion Skills: npx -y skills@latest add remotion-dev/skills -g -y
Then use them to create a video.

From the command line

npx create-video@latest --yes --blank my-video
cd my-video
npm i
npx remotion skills add
npm run dev

Creates a video in the my-video directory, with TailwindCSS, blank template and Agent Skills.

Planning to prompt a video using a coding agent?
Click here for more detailed beginner instructions.

Templates

Choose the template that is most suitable for you. For your first project, we recommend the Hello World template.

Wizard

Customize the creation of a Remotion project by selecting a package manager, a template and whether to enable Tailwind and Agent Skills.

npm

Use npm as the package manager
npx create-video@latest

bun

Use pnpm as the package manager
pnpm create video

pnpm

Use Yarn as the package manager
yarn create video

yarn

Use Nub as the package manager
nubx create-video@latest

nub

Use Bun as the package manager and runtime
bun create video

note

Bun as a runtime is mostly supported. Read more here.

After the project has been scaffolded, start the local development server:

Regular templates

After the project has been scaffolded, we recommend to open the project in your text editor and starting the Remotion Studio:

npm run dev

Next.js + React Router 7

After the project has been scaffolded, we recommend to open the project in your text editor and starting the app:

npm run dev

To start the Remotion Studio:

npm run remotion

ESLint

Remotion templates include a recommended ESLint configuration. See @remotion/eslint-config to choose the config for your ESLint version or to add it to another project.

System requirements

To use Remotion, you need at least Node 16 or Bun 1.0.3.
🍎 macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later is required. Older versions are not supported.
🐧 Linux distros need at least version 2.35 of Libc.
They also need to install some additional packages.
Alpine Linux and nixOS are unsupported.

Installation in existing projects

Want to install Remotion in an existing project? Go here instead: Installation in existing projects