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Make your first video

Brief your coding agent, pick the right skill, review frames and export an MP4. A step-by-step guide to your first AI-made video with GenMotion.

This guide takes you from an empty project to an exported MP4. It works the same in the Studio and from a terminal.

  1. 1

    Describe the video#

    Tell the agent what the video is for, how long it is and where it will run. Leave out anything you don't care about; the agent asks only what it needs.

    Text
    A 20-second launch video for Moonlight, our notes app. 16:9 for the website
hero, dark and confident. End on the logo and "Available today".

    Attach what you have: a logo, screenshots, a screen recording, brand colors. The agent saves them into assets/.

  2. 2

    Let the agent pick a skill#

    The agent searches GenMotion's skills for the one that owns this kind of video (here, launch-playbook), asks any missing questions, and writes the brief and the choice to VIDEO.md. The next session reads that file and picks up where this one left off.

  3. 3

    Watch it build#

    Open the preview: npm run dev, or the Studio's preview panel. Scenes appear as the agent writes them, and the preview reloads at the frame you were on.

  4. 4

    Give notes on frames#

    Be specific about time and place:

    • "At 0:04 the headline is too small on a phone."
    • "Make the logo land one beat later."
    • "Swap scenes 2 and 3."

    The agent runs genmotion check and looks at stills after each change, so a broken or blank scene is caught before you see it.

  5. 5

    Export#

    Terminal
    npm run render

    Or press Export in the Studio. The file lands in exports/. Need a different format or size? See Rendering.

Tips for a better result#

  • One message, one goal. A focused note gets a focused change.
  • Name the destination. "Instagram Reel" implies 9:16, captions and a strong first second; "website hero" implies a loop.
  • Give real copy. Headlines, product names and numbers you provide beat placeholders the agent invents.
  • Start from a template when one is close: npx genmotion init my-video --template <id>, or Remix in the Studio. The agent edits a finished video instead of starting from zero.