openvidstudio

openvidstudio is an open-source video-generation add-on, built on Remotion and Playwright, that an AI coding agent drives through MCP tools to produce launch and demo videos for a project directly from its repo and running app, with an optional Higgsfield AI b-roll tier for shots that can't be captured from a live screen. packages/ and templates/ each get their own README as they're built out. The public site lives in a separate repo: vidstudio-site.

A frame from a real render, not a mockup. Every screen in it was captured from a running app by this pipeline's own capture tools.

Quick Start

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openvidstudio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@openvidstudio/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Drop that into your MCP client's config, which for Claude Code is .mcp.json, and restart the client. Fourteen tools should appear.

Then start the app you want to film and ask your agent for a video in plain English, for example "build a 60 second demo video of the app running on localhost:3000". It checks the machine with preflight, runs a guided intake, drafts a beats.json, and shows you the whole draft before writing anything to disk.

Working from a clone instead:

git clone https://github.com/AnayDhawan/openvidstudio.git
cd openvidstudio && pnpm install
pnpm --filter @openvidstudio/mcp-server build
# then point the config at packages/mcp-server/dist/stdio.js with "command": "node"

Related MCP server: autodemo

Prerequisites

Node is assumed. Beyond that: pnpm, ffmpeg for sound effects and QC frame extraction, and the Chromium build Playwright drives during capture.

# Windows
winget install --id Gyan.FFmpeg -e
npm install -g pnpm
npx playwright install chromium

# macOS
brew install ffmpeg && npm install -g pnpm && npx playwright install chromium

# Debian or Ubuntu
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ffmpeg
npm install -g pnpm && npx playwright install chromium

Docs

Read packages/docs/PLANNING.md first for the guided intake flow, then packages/docs/OVERVIEW.md for the full pipeline shape. PIPELINE.md, STYLE.md, CAPTURE.md and SCRIPT.md cover the individual steps and the rules that are enforced rather than suggested.

What the tools do

Status

The pipeline runs end to end and scaffold_scene emits scenes that render, so an agent can go from a brief to a narrated mp4 without hand writing Remotion. The templates are structurally correct but plain: a first render looks right rather than good, and making it look good is still your job.