Original prompt — Tested Claude Motion alternative — explainer without Motion (Remotion)
by MotionPrompts (own run)
Prompt
Banned list ✓Beat grid ✓Build method ✓Self-review ✓
<direction>
A 9-second three-step explainer in Remotion, topic: how it works. Kicker line states the situation — Claude Motion is Team-only, this is the other route — then the title. Three numbered steps (Describe, Render, Ship) rise in along a connector line, each circle lighting in accent as its step lands, one plain sentence per step. Near-black background, one orange accent.
Banned: glows, gradients, icon fonts, more than three steps, sentences that need a second read.
</direction>
<structure>
Beat 1 (0–0.7s): kicker and title. Beats 2–4 (1.1s / 2.9s / 4.6s): one step per beat — circle, heading, sentence — rising 54px with a spring settle; the connector line draws across behind them over the same span. Beat 5: footer — "SAME EXPLAINER. NO TEAM PLAN. THE PROMPT IS BELOW." Hold.
</structure>
<build>
One Remotion composition, 1280x720 landscape, 30fps. Steps are a data array; circle lighting is a frame threshold per step, so the light lands with the step, not before it. The connector is a width-interpolated rule behind the circles (zIndex under the circles).
</build>
<gotchas>
Draw the connector behind the circles and stop it at the last circle's centre — a line that overshoots the final step reads as a mistake in every still.
</gotchas>
Before you finish: step through the timeline at five points and fix anything that overlaps, clips the frame, or drifts off the beat grid.
Claude Motion is Team-only; this explainer format is not. Three steps — {{steps}} — on a connector line, built in Remotion from the prompt below. The film explains the route while taking it.
Run log
| Model | Claude (agent build) |
| Renderer / stack | Remotion + React |
| Iterations to final | 1 |
| Render time | 27s (final render) |
| Format | 1280×720 · landscape |
| Published | 2026-10-25 |
What broke (and the fix)
- Nothing broke. Steps, connector line and the circle lighting landed in sequence in the first still, and the footer holds to the final frame.
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