Today I'm speaking with Jonny Burger, the creator and founder of Remotion, a framework for making videos programmatically with React. In other words, making videos with code.

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's one of the clearest real-world examples of early agentic video becoming practical.

We go back to the beginning: Jonny's original intention with Remotion, the first use cases, and how it'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's needed for AI to understand motion better, the Lottie and Rive integrations, and where Jonny sees Remotion in five years.