Video Generation

Remotion41.1k★

If you need to generate videos programmatically — data-driven animations, personalized video at scale, automated social media clips — Remotion lets you write video content as React components and render them to MP4. Instead of After Effects templates, you write JSX. 41K stars. The idea is wild and it works: your video is a React component, each frame is a render, and Remotion stitches them into video using FFmpeg. You can use any React library — charts, maps, 3D with Three.js — and it becomes video. The core Remotion player and composition tools are free. Rendering to video requires a license for companies with revenue above $100K/yr. Remotion Lambda (serverless rendering on AWS) is a separate paid product. Individual and small-revenue companies can use it free. The catch: rendering is slow and compute-heavy. A 60-second video can take minutes to render locally. Remotion Lambda speeds this up but adds AWS costs. The license model is unusual — it's free below a revenue threshold, then you pay. Check their pricing page carefully. And if you just need simple video editing (trim, concatenate, add text), FFmpeg with a wrapper is way simpler.