best-practices

Best practices for Remotion - Video creation in React

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-and-example bundle of Remotion best-practices and the requested files and examples align with that purpose; nothing appears disproportionate or malicious.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the provided content: many Remotion-focused rule files and example React/TSX components. Required env, binaries, and config paths are empty — appropriate for a docs/examples skill.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md and rule files stay on-topic (how to use Remotion, mediabunny, @remotion/* packages). A few examples show fetching remote URLs (e.g., fetch in calculate-metadata, examples pointing to https://remotion.media) and suggest adding Remotion-related packages — expected for live examples but worth noting if you plan to execute them (they may fetch external resources).

Install Mechanism

No install spec — instruction-only skill. Example commands suggest adding Remotion packages via npx/yarn/pnpm which is standard and not surprising.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. Example code uses external URLs and third-party libs (mediabunny, @remotion/*) but does not ask for secrets.

Persistence & Privilege

always:false and user-invocable; the skill does not request elevated or permanent presence and does not modify other skills or system configs.

Assessment

This package is documentation and example code for Remotion — generally safe to read. Before running any examples: inspect the code (it contains fetch() calls to example URLs and references third-party libraries like mediabunny and @remotion/*), verify you trust those packages and endpoints, and run installs/execs in a sandboxed environment. Because the source/homepage is unknown, prefer to copy examples into your own project rather than running any provided scripts blindly, and check package licenses and registry sources before adding dependencies.

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