How to Create Videos Using Claude

A complete step-by-step guide to generate videos under 5 minutes.

Hamza Khalid

May 20, 2026

∙ Paid

You don’t need a video editor anymore.

Claude can write, animate, and render videos for you, using code you don’t even have to understand.

Most people think video creation = expensive software, design skills, or hours of editing. That workflow is dead.

The new way: Type what you want → Claude builds it → Remotion renders it → You export it.

By the end of this issue, you’ll get a copy-paste Claude prompt kit for generating your first video, ready to use immediately.

I’ll be honest with you.

The first time I tried this, I had no idea what Remotion was.

I want to create a clean animated video without using CapCut or Premiere. I typed into Claude, hit enter, and watched it write hundreds of lines of video code in seconds.

It wasn’t perfect on the first try. But by step 3, I had a real video playing in my browser.

Here’s the exact setup I used, and what I wish someone had told me before I started.

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The Old Way vs The New Way

The old way: Open Premiere → Import clips → Drag timeline → Add text → Export → Cry about render times.

The new way: Open Claude → Describe your video → Claude writes the code → Remotion renders it in your browser → Done.

You don’t need to know how to code. You just need the right setup.