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How to make Opus 5.5 videos

Opus 5.5 is a text model. These pages are the routes people actually used to get an MP4: write a renderer, direct another model, edit footage, or record an app.

Path names follow the Awesome Claude Opus 5.5 Videos index. Then look at the videos.

• Start here

  How to make a video with Claude Opus 5.5

  Opus 5.5 does not emit MP4 pixels. It writes code, directs tools, edits footage you supply, or builds an app you then record. Pick a path before you prompt.

• Production path

  Code-drawn 2D and motion graphics

  Opus writes Canvas, SVG, p5, or Remotion. You get frames you can rerender. Best for product UI, type, loops, and paper or pixel looks.

• Production path

  Educational explainers

  Facts first, pictures second. Manim, SVG, Remotion, and a TTS track. Opus can structure the lesson. A finished image is not a proof.

• Production path

  3D and real-time graphics

  Three.js, WebGL, Blender. The X video is almost always a capture. Clearwater looks photographic because of shaders, not because a video model painted water.

• Production path

  Edit footage, audio, or an existing project

  You already have a talking head, a song, a product, or a codebase. Opus selects takes, redraws, captions, or writes a Remotion wrap. The performance is still yours.

• Production path

  Direct an external video model

  Opus writes shots, prompts, and edits. Seedance, Runway, MiniMax, Higgsfield, or similar draw many of the pixels. Say so on the post.

• Production path

  Record a game or an interactive lab

  Build something you can click. The video is proof it runs. Jayden's Splatoon capture, MengTo's boat, Ryan Sael's lens lab.

• Open source

  Reusable production systems

  A short prompt is cheap when a style library and two human approval gates already exist. Lemo-Opuscar and Papermotion are the public examples.