Tools

Write videos in HTML, CSS and frame-seekable animations, preview them from the CLI and render deterministic MP4s. Comes with agent skills for product launch videos, captions and talking-head re-edits. Maintained by HeyGen; needs Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg.

HeyGen's official video plugin: compose scenes with HTML, CSS and animation and render deterministic MP4s, with skills for promo videos, captions, voiceover and music, and PR walkthrough videos. Needs Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg.

Write videos in React and render them from the command line with npx remotion render, letting agents batch-produce data-driven videos. Free for individuals, nonprofits and companies of up to 3 people; larger for-profit companies need a license.

Command-line toolkit for transcoding, cutting, joining, frame extraction and streaming of audio and video, including ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay. A core dependency for agents handling media. The GitHub repo is the official mirror.

Open-source zero-shot TTS via f5-tts_infer-cli: from a few seconds of reference audio it reads Chinese or English text in the same voice, handy for lessons and videos. Needs Python, PyTorch and FFmpeg, ideally a GPU. Pretrained models are non-commercial; get consent before cloning a voice.

Remotion's official Codex plugin (OpenAI marketplace) for making videos in React code: 12 skills covering project setup, animation and effects, captions, maps, preview and rendering. Free for individuals, nonprofits and companies up to 3 people; bigger companies need a license.

Guides the agent through captions in Remotion videos: stores them as JSON using the Caption type from @remotion/captions, transcribes audio or video to generate them, imports .srt files, and displays and animates them in compositions. Official Remotion skill.

Remotion's official skill that teaches agents to make programmatic videos in React code, covering project setup, animation and typography, captions, map animations, media handling and rendering, and routes to each subtopic on demand.

Detects shot changes in video and splits long footage into scenes, exporting cut lists and per-scene thumbnails, useful for shot analysis, organizing footage and finding edit points. Runs locally; needs Python 3.10+, plus FFmpeg or mkvmerge for splitting.

Cloudinary's official MCP servers: upload, search and transform images and videos by chat, manage upload presets and structured metadata, and run AI content analysis, moderation and auto-tagging. Needs a Cloudinary account (some features paid); the command adds only the asset management server.