Tutorial & Demo Video Studio

Capture clean raw screen and camera footage for a tutorial or product demo - choosing the recorder (macOS Screenshot toolbar, QuickTime, OBS, Windows Game Bar), setting resolution / frame-rate / cursor / microphone, prepping a distraction-free stage, and recording in retakeable segments. Use when someone says "record my screen", "capture a screencast", "how do I record this demo", "what settings for screen recording", "set up OBS", "my recording looks blurry or laggy", "the cursor is hard to follow", or "record a tutorial walkthrough". Do NOT use to direct what happens on screen - cursor choreography, zoom/pan, callouts, screen-record-vs-recreate - that is product-demo-director; do NOT use to plan scenes or beat order before recording - that is video-storyboard; do NOT use to write what is spoken over the footage - that is narration-script; do NOT use to trim, cut, or export captured footage - that is downstream Remotion / editing.

Write the spoken voiceover for a tutorial or demo - the actual words, phrased for the ear and synced one-instruction-per-action to what is on screen, with a pacing budget and a confident, jargon-checked tone. Use when someone says "write the voiceover", "script the narration", "what should I say over this", "VO script for my tutorial", "narrate this demo", "the script feels robotic", or "the narration is too wordy". Do NOT use to mix, time, duck, source, or beat-match the audio - VO leveling, SFX, music - that is sound-and-music-sync; do NOT use to decide which scenes exist or their order - that is video-storyboard; do NOT use to direct the on-screen actions themselves (cursor, zoom, callouts) - that is product-demo-director; do NOT use to turn spoken lines into animated on-screen text - that is kinetic-typography.

Direct the craft of putting a real software UI on screen - cursor choreography, zoom/pan/callout language, screen-recording vs recreated-UI, and making state changes legible with highlights, focus pulls, and slow-downs. Use when filming or recreating an app for a product demo, feature walkthrough, onboarding clip, or release reel and asking "how do I show this click", "where should the camera zoom", "should I screen-record or rebuild the UI", "why does my demo feel confusing", "how do I make the state change readable", or "how do I move the cursor". Do NOT use for the underlying motion grammar (easing, timing) - use motion-design-principles; for the beat-by-beat plan - use video-storyboard; for animating words on screen - use kinetic-typography; for the color/light of highlights and glows - use motion-color-and-light; for sound design or a click/whoosh hit - use sound-and-music-sync; for reframing the demo to 9:16 or 1:1 - use social-video-formatter; for the React/MP4 mechanics of building it - use remotion-compose and remotion-render.

The craft layer for motion: pick the right easing (ease-in / ease-out / ease-in-out / spring), get timing and spacing right, build the anticipation→action→follow-through arc, and apply Disney's 12 principles to UI and product video. Use when animating any UI transition, modal, button, page load, or product-video scene, or when someone says "make this feel less janky", "smoother", "more polished", "more alive", "the animation feels off", "why does this look cheap", or asks "ease-in or ease-out" / "spring or interpolate". Do NOT use to plan shots, scene order, or beat lists — use video-storyboard instead; do NOT use to direct a full product demo (cursor moves, screen captures, callouts) — use product-demo-director instead; do NOT use to animate text/letterforms — use kinetic-typography instead; do NOT use to time motion to a beat or score — use sound-and-music-sync instead; do NOT use to crop/reframe for a platform — use social-video-formatter instead; do NOT use for light/exposure/color motion — use motion-color-and-light instead.

Put text in motion the right way - title cards, animated captions, lower-thirds, callouts, and word-by-word reveals - with a reading-time-per-word budget so copy holds long enough to read, plus enter/exit timing, weight and size transitions, and type hierarchy in motion. Use when someone asks to "animate this text", "make a title card", "animated captions/subtitles", "kinetic typography", "animate the headline", "lower-third", "word-by-word reveal", "text that pops in", or "how long should this line stay on screen". Do NOT use when the question is the cut, pacing, or easing curve of non-text motion - use motion-design-principles instead; do NOT use to plan which scenes or shots exist - use video-storyboard instead; do NOT use to resize or crop a caption track for a specific platform (9:16 TikTok, 1:1 feed) - use social-video-formatter instead; do NOT use for the color, contrast, or lighting of the type against its background - use motion-color-and-light instead.

Scaffolds a new Remotion video project wired for Claude Code Agent Skills - Node check, create-video scaffold, skills install, folder conventions, Google Fonts, and a smoke-test render. Use whenever someone wants to start making videos with Remotion and Claude, even just "make product videos with Claude."

Turns a natural-language video brief into a complete, ready-to-preview Remotion composition - extracts duration, scenes, brand colors, aspect ratio, and real copy; plans the frame budget; and writes data-driven React/TypeScript using useCurrentFrame, interpolate, spring, AbsoluteFill, and Sequence, registered in Root.tsx. Use when someone says "build a 20-second product demo video", "animate a feature walkthrough", "write the Remotion code for this marketing clip", or wants a scene-by-scene composition they can scrub in Studio. Do NOT use for rendering, iterating, or batching the finished MP4 - use remotion-render instead - or for installing and scaffolding the project - use remotion-setup instead.

Score a video like an editor: beat-match cuts to the music, land SFX on transitions, pace the voiceover so it breathes, source royalty-free tracks safely, and duck the music so the VO sits clearly on top. Use when adding music, sound effects, or voiceover to a video, when asked to "sync cuts to the beat", "the music is drowning out the voice", "add whooshes on the transitions", "where do I get royalty-free music", "mix the audio", or "the VO feels rushed". Do NOT use when wiring audio into the Remotion timeline mechanically (Audio/staticFile/render) - that is remotion-compose and remotion-render; do NOT use when choosing the shot order or scene beats - use video-storyboard instead; do NOT use when tuning the visual look (color grade, lighting, contrast) - use motion-color-and-light instead.

Produce an accurate, properly timed caption track (SRT or WebVTT) from a video's audio - transcribing or aligning to the voiceover script, timing cues to speech, and enforcing line-length and reading-speed rules so captions are readable and in sync. Use when someone says "generate captions", "make subtitles from the audio", "transcribe and caption this", "export an SRT or VTT", "the captions are out of sync", or "the subtitles flash by too fast to read". Do NOT use to burn-in, style, reframe, or position an existing caption track for a platform (9:16, brand styling, safe areas) - that is social-video-formatter; do NOT use to animate text word-by-word as a motion graphic - that is kinetic-typography; do NOT use to write the spoken script in the first place - that is narration-script.

Renders a Remotion composition to MP4 and runs the edit-and-re-render loop - CLI render commands, 1080p/4K/9:16 presets, concurrency tuning, codec selection, batch variants from a JSON data file, and Lambda for cloud rendering. Use when someone says "render this Remotion video", "export the composition to MP4", "the animation is too fast, fix and re-render", "batch render one video per customer", or "move rendering to Lambda". Do NOT use for authoring or restructuring scenes, animations, or components - use remotion-compose instead; do NOT use for project scaffolding and initial setup - use remotion-setup instead. This skill owns everything from a finished composition to a delivered file.

Reframe and export a finished video for social platforms - 9:16 ↔ 16:9 cropping, burned-in captions, a platform-native first frame, loop design, and per-platform specs (aspect, length, safe areas) for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, X, and LinkedIn. Use when someone says "make this vertical", "crop to 9:16", "format for TikTok/Reels/Shorts", "add captions/subtitles", "why is my video cut off on mobile", "resize for Instagram", or "export for social". Do NOT use when the question is about the storyboard or shot order before any video exists (use video-storyboard); when it is about the animation craft of how elements move and the easing/spacing of motion (use motion-design-principles); when it is about animated word-by-word caption styling (use kinetic-typography); when it is about palette, contrast, or lighting choices (use motion-color-and-light); when it is about directing the actual product-demo content and screen choreography (use product-demo-director); or when it is about scoring, beat-syncing, or audio (use sound-and-music-sync) - this is the craft layer that decides WHAT to format for the feed, then hands a concrete spec to remotion-compose / remotion-render to author and export.