https://reddit.com/link/1tjkiva/video/h6xxhpfjsh2h1/player I wanted a launch video for my startup. Didn’t want to pay $2K for a freelancer. Didn’t want to learn After Effects. Definitely didn’t want to use Canva. So I just coded it. Remotion turns React into a video renderer. You write JSX, you get an mp4. Every animation is just interpolate(frame, [start, end], [from, to]) . Claude Code wrote most of the scenes. I tweaked timing and killed anything that felt slow. Total cost: $0. Total time: one evening. 5 things that made it not look like a dev made it: Crossfade every cut. No hard cuts between scenes. Overlap and blur-fade. Instantly stops feeling like a slideshow. One easing curve everywhere. cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1) on every animation. Consistency in motion is 80% of “looks designed.” Film grain + vignette. SVG noise at 2% opacity, soft dark vignette on top. Cheapest cinematic trick in existence. Layered audio. Background music low, targeted SFX only on chapter cuts and the CTA. Overdoing SFX is the #1 amateur tell. Cut ruthlessly. If a scene doesn’t earn its place in 3 seconds, kill it. Stack: Remotion, React, TypeScript, Claude Code, Google Fonts, freesound.org for SFX. That’s it. The video features a real output from InkMotion inside the launch video. Probably should’ve just used InkMotion to make the whole thing. Next time. Happy to answer anything in the comments. submitted by /u/Top_Commission_8567
Originally posted by u/Top_Commission_8567 on r/ArtificialInteligence