Welcome to Syntax. Today we have Johnny Berger on. He is the author of Remotion. And we had Johnny on, what, I don't, probably, probably three or four years ago to talk about Remotion, which is programmatically creating videos with code. And so stoked to see. I'm stoked to have them on again because Johnny's been grinding on Remotion for many, many years.

And in, I don't know, probably about January or so, this thing absolutely blew up because there was a release of a Claude skill that allowed you to basically just instead of writing

the JavaScript and React code behind it, you could now simply just prompt your way through it.

And it made it a lot easier. And it was probably one of the most impressive things,

both to us developers. And it absolutely exploded the brains of people who were not

developers, seeing that you could just type into a box and a video would come out the other end,

which is really, really cool. So we're excited to talk to him about that, as well as a new Chrome spec,

which is HTML in Canvas,

which as soon as I saw this drop, I was like,

this is gonna be killer for doing, like basically making videos

with HTML CSS and JavaScript. So welcome, Johnny. Thanks a lot for coming on.

Hello, thanks a lot for having me on for the second time. That feels special.

Yeah, you're right. It's only a couple

people have been on on more than once, so we're stoked to have you on. So you want to give us a

quick rundown for the six people who've not heard of ReMotion, what it is and how it works?

Sure, ReMotion is a way to create videos programmatically. So you use React to

essentially code a website, but then you kind of also have this dimension of time and you change

the website over time and through that you can render a video. And I've been doing that since 2021. I found a couple of people

who like to use it. And for a couple of years, we were all coding the videos manually. And now the

latest craze is that the AI writes the code. And now it has become a lot more easier.

Yeah. Yeah, and it seems like the longevity of the project's really great.

It seems like you found a way to monetize it without turning people off.

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