Making components reusable

React components allow us to encapsulate video logic and reuse the same visuals multiple times.

Consider a title - to make it reusable, factor it out into its own component:

MyComposition.tsx
tsx
import { AbsoluteFill, interpolate, useCurrentFrame } from "remotion";
 
const Title: React.FC<{ title: string }> = ({ title }) => {
  const frame = useCurrentFrame();
  const opacity = interpolate(frame, [0, 20], [0, 1], {
    extrapolateRight: "clamp",
  });
 
  return (
    <div style={{ opacity, textAlign: "center", fontSize: "7em" }}>{title}</div>
  );
};
 
export const MyVideo = () => {
  return (
    <AbsoluteFill>
      <Title title="Hello World" />
    </AbsoluteFill>
  );
};

MyComposition.tsx
tsx
import { AbsoluteFill, interpolate, useCurrentFrame } from "remotion";
 
const Title: React.FC<{ title: string }> = ({ title }) => {
  const frame = useCurrentFrame();
  const opacity = interpolate(frame, [0, 20], [0, 1], {
    extrapolateRight: "clamp",
  });
 
  return (
    <div style={{ opacity, textAlign: "center", fontSize: "7em" }}>{title}</div>
  );
};
 
export const MyVideo = () => {
  return (
    <AbsoluteFill>
      <Title title="Hello World" />
    </AbsoluteFill>
  );
};

To render multiple instances of the title, duplicate the <Title> component.

You can also use the <Sequence> component to limit the duration of the first title and time-shift the appearance of the second title.

tsx
import { Sequence } from "remotion";
 
export const MyVideo = () => {
  return (
    <AbsoluteFill>
      <Sequence durationInFrames={40}>
        <Title title="Hello" />
      </Sequence>
      <Sequence from={40}>
        <Title title="World" />
      </Sequence>
    </AbsoluteFill>
  );
};

tsx
import { Sequence } from "remotion";
 
export const MyVideo = () => {
  return (
    <AbsoluteFill>
      <Sequence durationInFrames={40}>
        <Title title="Hello" />
      </Sequence>
      <Sequence from={40}>
        <Title title="World" />
      </Sequence>
    </AbsoluteFill>
  );
};

You should see two titles appearing after each other.

Note that the value of useCurrentFrame() has been shifted in the second instance, so that it returns 0 only when the absolute time is 40. Before that, the sequence was not mounted at all.

Sequences by default are absolutely positioned - you can use layout="none" to make them render like a regular <div>.

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