Is There Potential for a Tool Like This?

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The idea is very simple and with just that, you're not able to do so much yet. So we give you one hook, it's called use current frame and the way to specify the width and height of the canvas. Then we use Puppeteer to make screenshots of that and FFmpeg to encode the video. We have kind of inlined that all in our code to make it a bit more efficient. The next thing you know you have all of this content that would have taken so long to do by hand. And then you can put it into more tools on the web and you could probably stitch that together and other videos or making a whole workflow around it. I see a

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jonny Burger about why and how he built Remotion, his app that lets you create MP4 videos using React.

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