A hands-on walkthrough of replacing screen recordings with Remotion, a React-based video framework. The author adapts a Next.js forex calculator app for Remotion by converting stateful components to pure prop-driven ones, creating mock data files, and building a frame-based action timeline hook. Three production demo videos are built (feature walkthrough, changelog recap, bug fix comparison) plus a fourth generated via Claude Code using Remotion's Agent Skills. The post covers setup costs (~85 minutes one-time), rendering performance (130 seconds of video in under 4 minutes), licensing considerations, and a clear ROI comparison showing Remotion becomes faster than screen recording after the second video.
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