best-practices

Best practices for Remotion - Video creation in React

Security Scan

The skill is a documentation/instruction bundle about Remotion best practices and the files and examples align with that purpose; it requests no credentials, has no installer, and contains example code only.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description match the provided files: markdown rules and example TSX components about Remotion (assets, animations, captions, mediabunny usage, etc.). No unrelated binaries, credentials, or configuration paths are requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md simply points to rule files and examples. The rule files contain code samples that reference Remotion packages and remote assets (e.g., mediabunny, remotion.media, example APIs) which is consistent with a best-practices guide. There are no instructions to read unrelated system files, harvest environment variables, or transmit arbitrary local data.

Install Mechanism

No install spec is provided (instruction-only skill). Example code recommends installing standard Remotion-related packages, which is expected. Nothing is downloaded or executed by the skill itself.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. Example snippets call fetch to external URLs for legitimate tasks (fetching metadata, media, fonts), but do not request secrets.

Persistence & Privilege

Skill is user-invocable, not always-enabled, and does not request elevated persistent privileges or modify other skills or system configuration.

Assessment

This is a documentation/instruction skill that contains many copy-pasteable code examples for Remotion. It's low-risk: it doesn't request credentials or install anything. Before copying examples into a real project, review referenced external URLs and packages (e.g., mediabunny, remotion media URLs, example API endpoints), install only the packages you trust, and avoid pasting any code that fetches or posts to third-party endpoints with sensitive tokens. If you plan to run code that fetches remote media, ensure the endpoints are trusted and do not embed secrets in props or fetch URLs.

When to use

Use this skills whenever you are dealing with Remotion code to obtain the domain-specific knowledge.

How to use

Read individual rule files for detailed explanations and code examples:

• rules/3d.md - 3D content in Remotion using Three.js and React Three Fiber
• rules/animations.md - Fundamental animation skills for Remotion
• rules/assets.md - Importing images, videos, audio, and fonts into Remotion
• rules/audio.md - Using audio and sound in Remotion - importing, trimming, volume, speed, pitch
• rules/calculate-metadata.md - Dynamically set composition duration, dimensions, and props
• rules/can-decode.md - Check if a video can be decoded by the browser using Mediabunny
• rules/charts.md - Chart and data visualization patterns for Remotion
• rules/compositions.md - Defining compositions, stills, folders, default props and dynamic metadata
• rules/display-captions.md - Displaying captions in Remotion with TikTok-style pages and word highlighting
• rules/extract-frames.md - Extract frames from videos at specific timestamps using Mediabunny
• rules/fonts.md - Loading Google Fonts and local fonts in Remotion
• rules/get-audio-duration.md - Getting the duration of an audio file in seconds with Mediabunny
• rules/get-video-dimensions.md - Getting the width and height of a video file with Mediabunny
• rules/get-video-duration.md - Getting the duration of a video file in seconds with Mediabunny
• rules/gifs.md - Displaying GIFs synchronized with Remotion's timeline
• rules/images.md - Embedding images in Remotion using the Img component
• rules/import-srt-captions.md - Importing .srt subtitle files into Remotion using @remotion/captions
• rules/lottie.md - Embedding Lottie animations in Remotion
• rules/measuring-dom-nodes.md - Measuring DOM element dimensions in Remotion
• rules/measuring-text.md - Measuring text dimensions, fitting text to containers, and checking overflow
• rules/sequencing.md - Sequencing patterns for Remotion - delay, trim, limit duration of items
• rules/tailwind.md - Using TailwindCSS in Remotion
• rules/text-animations.md - Typography and text animation patterns for Remotion
• rules/timing.md - Interpolation curves in Remotion - linear, easing, spring animations
• rules/transcribe-captions.md - Transcribing audio to generate captions in Remotion
• rules/transitions.md - Scene transition patterns for Remotion
• rules/trimming.md - Trimming patterns for Remotion - cut the beginning or end of animations
• rules/videos.md - Embedding videos in Remotion - trimming, volume, speed, looping, pitch