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I don't do video

I don’t do video.

Ask anyone who works with me. I’m a print and web guy. Timelines and keyframes are not my world.

But I wanted an animated product demo for AI4Love.

So I built it. In Terminal.

You read that right.

Using Claude and Remotion, I developed the script, wrote the animation in React, edited in Chrome. No After Effects. No Premiere. No motion design background. No timeline to scrub. Just code, a browser preview, and iteration.

The result is a structured product demo. Scenes, transitions, motion, timing.

What gets me is the path.

  • A Terminal session.
  • A conversation with an AI.
  • A rendered video file at the end.

The demo itself is for AI4Love, a relationship intelligence platform I’m building for nonprofits. So there’s a real product behind it worth showing.

But the process is what I keep thinking about.

A year ago this demo wouldn’t exist because I couldn’t have made it. Now it does.

That’s the part worth paying attention to.

First published on LinkedIn.