Remotion Rule: Text Animations

What it is

Remotion Rule: Text Animations is a skill rule within the official Remotion Agent Skill that provides typography and text animation patterns for programmatic video creation in React. It covers fade-in, slide-in, typewriter, word-by-word reveal, and other text animation techniques using Remotion's interpolate and spring functions.

This rule is for developers building programmatic videos with Remotion who need ready-made text animation patterns. If you are creating explainer videos, title sequences, or social media content with animated text, this rule provides tested patterns to start from.

How it saves time or tokens

Instead of figuring out Remotion's interpolate API from scratch for each text effect, this rule provides copy-paste patterns for common animations. Each pattern uses Remotion's built-in timing functions correctly, handles edge cases like text overflow and line breaks, and follows Remotion best practices for performance. When using AI coding assistants, the rule activates automatically in Remotion projects, giving the AI correct context for generating text animations.

How to use

1. Install the Remotion skills: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills.
2. The text animation rule activates automatically when working with text in a Remotion project.
3. Use the provided patterns as starting points and customize timing, easing, and styles.

Example

import { useCurrentFrame, interpolate, spring, useVideoConfig } from 'remotion';

export const FadeInText: React.FC<{text: string}> = ({text}) => {
  const frame = useCurrentFrame();
  const {fps} = useVideoConfig();

  const opacity = interpolate(frame, [0, 30], [0, 1], {
    extrapolateRight: 'clamp',
  });

  const translateY = spring({
    frame,
    fps,
    config: {damping: 200},
  });

  return (
    <div
      style={{
        opacity,
        transform: `translateY(${(1 - translateY) * 50}px)`,
        fontSize: 60,
        fontWeight: 'bold',
      }}
    >
      {text}
    </div>
  );
};

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Common pitfalls

• Using CSS transitions instead of Remotion's interpolate function. CSS animations are frame-rate independent and will not sync with Remotion's frame-based rendering. Always use interpolate or spring for animations.
• Not clamping interpolation values. Without extrapolateRight: 'clamp', values continue beyond the target range, causing unexpected animation behavior after the transition completes.
• Rendering too many text elements simultaneously. Each animated text component adds to render time. For complex typography, pre-compose text groups and animate the container rather than individual characters.