Remotion Best Practices

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name: remotion-best-practices
description: Best practices for Remotion
metadata:
  tags: remotion, video, react, animation, composition
---

## New project setup

If no Remotion project currently exists, load [Create a new Remotion project](remotion-create/REFERENCE.md)

## React Markup Best Practices

If you are writing Remotion React Markup, load [Remotion Markup Best Practices](remotion-markup/REFERENCE.md)

## Maps

For static maps, animated routes and markers, geographic explainers, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler, GeoJSON, or 3D geographic flyovers, load [Remotion Maps](remotion-maps/REFERENCE.md).

## Mediabunny Skills

For achieving multimedia tasks in the browser, such as trimming, cropping videos, or getting metadata from them, load [Mediabunny Best Practices](mediabunny/REFERENCE.md)

## Improving Interactivity

By structuring the Remotion markup well, we can allow users to interactively change things in the Studio and write back to code. If relevant: [Interactivity Best Practices](remotion-interactivity/REFERENCE.md)

## Rendering

For advanced rendering beyond simple `npx remotion render`, see: [Rendering Best Practices](remotion-render/REFERENCE.md)

## Captions

When working with Captions, load [Remotion Captions](remotion-captions/REFERENCE.md).

## Creating a SaaS, automation or application

Use the [Remotion SaaS skill](remotion-saas/REFERENCE.md) for knowledge about Remotion-powered SaaS apps, such as `<Player>`, rendering on Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare, via Express.js, client-side rendering, or for finding the right SaaS template.

## Looking up Remotion APIs and documentation

To find and read current Remotion documentation, load [Remotion Docs](remotion-docs/REFERENCE.md).

## Upgrading

To upgrade Remotion, related packages, compatible Mediabunny packages, and installed Remotion Agent Skills, load [Remotion Upgrade](remotion-upgrade/REFERENCE.md).