Motion reels with Claude Code: no After Effects, no timeline

Every reel on my Instagram is made without After Effects and without a timeline. I tell Claude what video I need, it writes the script, builds the scenes in the right style, syncs them to the voice and hands me a finished mp4.

I packed this into a motion studio for Claude Code. It is free; below is how to install and use it.

Why code instead of After Effects

A Remotion video is plain React code. Every scene, every line of text and every movement lives in files. That gives you three things:

• Claude can edit it. It can’t click buttons in After Effects, but it writes code well.
• Your style carries over. Colours, fonts and animations live in one place, so the next video already looks like yours.
• Edits are cheap. Change the text, length or scene order with one sentence instead of dragging clips around.

What’s inside

• /motion — a video from idea to mp4: script, scenes, render.
• /motion-setup — installs the studio, checks it with a test render and asks a couple of questions: what the videos are for and whether you have a brand.
• motion-graphics — motion design rules Claude follows when building animation.
• Scripts: voice creates an ElevenLabs voice-over with timecodes, captions makes Whisper subtitles, reference breaks down someone else’s reel by cuts and sound.

Voice-over and captions are in sync: words appear exactly when they are spoken.

How to install

1. Open Claude Code in any folder.
2. Paste:

Download the archive https://files.catbox.moe/d2ba1r.zip, unzip it to /tmp and install the motion studio following README.md inside

3. Claude downloads the archive, installs the studio, checks it with a render and asks a couple of questions.

Your first video

Write in plain language:

/motion a 20 s reel about my product

Claude proposes a script. Adjust it in words if needed and it builds the scenes. You can preview the video in Remotion Studio, which opens in the browser, and the final file lands in the out folder.

A good first request is short and specific: what the video is about, how many seconds, who it’s for. A long brief at step one only gets in the way; it is easier to fix a ready draft.

Recreate a reel you liked

The most useful part for content. You see a reel that took off and want the same format about your own thing. The reference script breaks the video down: where the cuts are, how long each scene lasts, where the sound changes. Claude then builds your video on the same structure with your own content.

Don’t copy other people’s content. Take the rhythm and structure, keep everything else yours.

What you need

• Claude Code.
• Node.js, which Remotion runs on.
• An ElevenLabs key for the voice-over. Without it the video still renders, just silent.

Bottom line

If you make content about your product, motion as code saves hours per video and keeps one consistent style. It installs with one message, and Claude takes it from there.

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