Matt Loui — Claude + Remotion + CapCut Motion Graphics Tutorial

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I’ve been able to create some of the most premium looking motion graphics I’ve ever made, all without actually editing. This video demonstrates how to create premium motion graphics quickly using a tool called Remotion. This step-by-step tutorial covers using AI for animation and the power of Claude for generating these incredible videos. If you want to dive deeper into video editing, this is for you!

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Create motion backgrounds in Claude, make motion graphics in Claude like stacked lists, map animations in Claude, text highlight effects in Claude and more! This is how to make motion graphics in Claude which you can then use in CapCut.

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:32 How to Install Claude 0:54 Generating LUTS 2:26 Counting Numbers Animation 4:16 Intro to Animations 4:44 How to Setup the Animation Tool 6:58 Motion Backgrounds 9:44 Stacked List Motion Graphic 16:06 Animated Search Bar 18:30 Text Highlight Effect 19:40 Map Animation 23:19 Recap of Video

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I’ve been able to create some of the most premium looking motion graphics I’ve ever made, all without actually editing. The crazier part is they take a matter of minutes to make, but you have to have the knowledge to learn how to do that, and I wasted weeks of trial and error and credits to show you exactly how to do that. So, let’s create some premium looking motion graphics all in Claude without being a pro editor. So, we’re first going to start with some free uses of Claude. You don’t have to have a subscription to Claude. You can literally generate these directly inside for free. So, the first thing you’re going to need is Claude installed onto your computer. So, I’m going to go to claude.ai. Once you’re on this page, go to the bottom left to get apps and extensions, and you should see a download for macOS or download for PC. Then you can go ahead and download that to your computer, and once it’s installed, you’ll have the Claude client installed on your computer, which will look like this. The first time you log in, it’ll probably look exactly like this. What I need to do is say, “Please generate a clean soft pastel .lut file for my studio YouTube videos, cinematic Let’s go ahead and click send.” Once it’s done generating, Claude is going to give us a summary of what it just created. It created a look with lifted shadows, soft highlights, subtle teal in the shadows, and warm peach in the highlights, skin tone friendly, reduced the saturation, and created a low contrast look for that clean studio aesthetic. If you navigate slightly further, you’ll find the actual file, which you can click, then navigate to that arrow, and say download. Save it to your downloads or whatever other folder you want to save it to. Let’s go ahead and click save. I’ve already generated this, so I’m just going to click replace. >> [music] >> Now, if we navigate to CapCut, you can go to adjustment, navigate to .lut, say import, [music] and you’ll find that .cube file, which you can select and say open. That then imports it into CapCut, and you can use this for whatever project you create in CapCut. All we then need to do is click that plus icon. It’s going to add a new layer to our timeline, which we can extend over our footage, and you’ll see if I toggle this on and off, it’s created a filter for our footage. Personally, I think this is slightly too strong, so I could stay selected on that and drag it down to around 50%. [music] That looks wonderful. Now, the incredible thing about Claude is you can always ask it to make tweaks to exactly what it creates. So, personally, I didn’t really like that teal look in the shadows of this. It took away from some of that clean aesthetic. So, I asked Claude to generate a brand new file just removing that teal, and you can see the difference here. Now, if I drag this to 50%, this has created a very nice pastel-looking look. So, the next thing that we’re going to do in Claude is generate animated numbers. This is great if you want a numbers counting effect like you’re seeing on screen right now. All we need to do is navigate to new chat, and let’s go ahead and paste our prompt. All this says is generate a dot SRT file for me with numbers counting from 0 to 535. Make each subtitle 0.1 seconds long and have a dollar sign in front of all of them. Let’s go ahead and click send. Once that’s done, just like we did with that LUT, go ahead and click on that file, navigate to that arrow, and let’s select download. Save it to your downloads folder. What we can then do is go to CapCut and drag that dot SRT file directly onto our timeline. Essentially, what this has done, if we zoom into our timeline, is it’s created a ton of little subtitle files for us. What’s amazing about this is we can customize all of them directly inside of CapCut. So, let me go and highlight all of them until they turn white. We can then change things like the font size. Let’s go ahead and change that font. And we can even change the [m

Chapters

• 16:06 — Animated Search Bar
• 18:30 — Text Highlight Effect
• 19:40 — Map Animation
• 23:19 — Recap of Video

Context

434K views — massive reach. This is the highest-viewed video in the current batch. Remotion as the bridge between Claude code output and CapCut editing is a key insight.