Short answer: Jordan Metzner calls Remotion a JavaScript video library in React with a player and editor. Sam Nadler says he shaped his template in natural language with Codex and Claude Code, with zero editing skills.
Watch this answer from Episode 36 (starts at 9:00) · Episode 36 notes and transcript
From Episode 36: How We Built an AI Video Editor for Recruiters (Remotion + Claude + Codex), starting at 9:00.
Jordan Metzner [9:00]: No. It's pretty awesome. I mean, I kinda feel like we're giving away a little too much secret sauce, to be honest. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I think we all agree that, like, video is a great format for understanding candidates and, like, reviewing them and whatnot. And then, as you said, kind of historically, editing video was left for still being done exclusively, kind of offline via heavy applications like, Premiere or Final Cut or iMovie or something else like that. And, then went to mobile with like CapCut, etcetera. But, this is all video editing as code, which makes it like so much more interesting, especially kind of the possibilities of like kind of creating infinite amounts of video slates. So, yeah, let's jump into like what is Remotion and how you use this tool.
Sam Nadler [9:40]: Yeah. So I think, you told me about this tool and just like, plugging it into Codex. And I actually think I started with Claude Code. Was really, really simple. And then it was just finding just toying around with, my own feedback on how I wanted the video to look. There was absolutely zero editing skills, but just like, playing around with the colors and how I wanted the graphics to be presented just in natural language, he was able to take that and help me build this template. But when did you learn about Remotion, and how have you used it in the last couple months?
Jordan Metzner [10:15]: Yeah. So like, I mean, I think of Remotion as kind of like a JavaScript video library. And, you know, before AI, using a JavaScript based video library might be like pretty cumbersome to kind of like write out in JavaScript a bunch of things you want a video to be. And then, yeah, I found out about it through like maybe like in the vibe coding, early vibe code days of like Lovable and Bolt or something like that and someone was using it as a video editing tool. And I just kinda saw the power of it. And it's interesting that there's not really that much other competition, but yeah, I think of it as like a video editing or video creation library, but if you go up to the products page, can see that it has kind of a bunch of other features built into it, like a player. It has an editor, if you saw that up there on top. Yeah. So it has its own editor tool that you can kind of build on top of. And it's really got a bunch of really cool dynamic features all kind of, in React that you can integrate into your app.
Jordan Metzner [11:07]: So in the case of Ntrvsta, we have this awesome video asset. And so I think you've done a great job of kind of leveraging Remotion to make these kind of reels if you might wanna call them that. But, yeah, it seems like it's just the early days of Remotion, early days of kind of video creation via code, and, I think, like, if Remotion gets a little bit better, your prompts get a little bit better, I think your videos will get significantly better. And it kinda goes all way down, but, yeah, pretty cool. Great job.
