<p>Today I&#39;m speaking with Jonny Burger, the creator and founder of <a href="https://www.remotion.dev/">Remotion</a>, a framework for making videos programmatically with React. In other words, making videos with code.</p><p>I reached out to Jonny a few weeks ago to book this interview. Two days later, Remotion went viral in the Claude ecosystem when they released agent skills. Almost overnight, Remotion had thousands of non-coders prompting videos into existence. They went from a fairly niche developer framework to suddenly having three-quarters of their users be non-technical people one-shotting videos with AI. For someone deeply interested in agentic video, it&#39;s one of the clearest real-world examples of early agentic video becoming practical.</p><p>We go back to the beginning: Jonny&#39;s original intention with Remotion, the first use cases, and how it&#39;s evolved over five years. We cover the stack (React, headless Chromium, FFmpeg), source-available vs open source licensing, and why Remotion focuses on being composable with other tools rather than building a full After Effects replacement. We also dig into the Claude skills wave, what&#39;s needed for AI to understand motion better, the Lottie and Rive integrations, and where Jonny sees Remotion in five years.</p><p><br></p>