mintel.me/apps/video/CLAUDE.md

apps/video

Social media videos (LinkedIn first, 16:9 for YouTube and Google Ads) in the mintel.me look, made with Remotion. Standalone package: it is not in pnpm-workspace.yaml, so it never ends up in the web build, the Dockerfile or pnpm -r. apps/web must never import from here, and this package imports nothing from apps/web.

Commands (run from this folder)

• Install: pnpm install --ignore-workspace
• Studio (the playground, http://localhost:3000): pnpm studio
• One frame as PNG: pnpm still WebsiteDone-de-feed out/check.png --frame=40
• One video: pnpm render WebsiteDone-de-feed out/website.mp4
• The whole library: pnpm library (= node scripts/export.ts; --only <VideoId>, --formats feed,wide, --page to rewrite only post texts and the overview). Writes out/library/index.html (watch, copy the post text, download) and out/library/<video>/<language>/ with the MP4s and post.txt.
• pnpm typecheck, pnpm test

Compositions are named <VideoId>-<language>-<format>: languages en, de; formats feed (4:5, LinkedIn), wide (16:9), square, story (9:16). out/ is gitignored.

Where things are

• src/content/videos.ts: every word. Headlines per slide, the post text per video, both languages, and the German for labels inside drawings (LABELS_DE). Drawing code writes labels in English; they are translated when rendered. German addresses the viewer as "Sie".
• src/compositions/<Video>.tsx: the slides of one video (ids, durations, illustrations). No text.
• src/slides: SlideDeck (panel, headline, curtain, loop, portrait and 16:9 layout), ServiceVideo (frame + language + deck), ctaSlide (closing slide with the button).
• src/illustrations: parts.tsx (tile, icon, cursor, data chip, window, page, badges, day box), scenes.tsx (scenes several videos share), motion.ts (easing helpers).
• src/brand: tokens, fonts, BrandFrame (logo, labels, digit texture), Panel (the dark panel with the website's light effects), BrandButton.
• src/lib: pure, tested logic (bits.ts, aura.ts).

How to make a new video

1. Add the texts to src/content/videos.ts (new VideoId, both languages, post text).
2. Add src/compositions/<Name>.tsx with its slides and register it in src/Root.tsx.
3. Look before reporting: render the MP4, pull one frame per slide and read them, in feed and wide, in both languages (German lines are longer). Do not hand over a video you have not seen.
4. pnpm library --only <Name> and tell the owner where the files are.

Films (the current format, owner approved 2026-10-04)

Every video is a film in src/films: one continuous shot on a dark stage, not a deck of slides.

• Shared: FilmStage (backdrop, one centred statement at a time, signature, address) and shot.ts (one timeline T, the camera move cameraAt, the six caption slots hook/reveal/problem/turn/calm/cta).
• The pattern: close on something abstract that looks like something else ("Looks like ping-pong."), the camera pulls back and shows what it really is ("It's your office."), it stops, resolves, rests, and returns to the opening picture so the film loops. Frame 0 is the preview image.
• Minimal and calm (owner feedback: earlier versions were hectic). Only squares, dots, lines and bars; no icons or labels in the drawing. One statement of two short lines, held for about three seconds. A little sarcasm in the hook is welcome. German has to read like a native wrote it.
• One font size per film: the largest at which the longest line fits, so keep lines short.
• The logo is the white signature (public/logo-mark.svg): bottom left, and very large and faint behind.
• The slide deck code (src/slides/SlideDeck, src/illustrations, BrandFrame, Panel) is no longer used by any video and can be removed once the owner confirms.

Rules

• Before any work: bring the worktree up to date with main (owner feedback, twice). Take wording, styles and effects from the website as it is now: texts in apps/web/src/content/de.ts and en.ts, styles in apps/web/app/globals.css, drawings in apps/web/src/components/illustrations. Do not state prices, terms or durations that are not in the texts.
• Picture first, few words (owner feedback): 6 to 8 slides of about 2 s, each one large animated illustration plus a headline of two to four words. No paragraphs, no captions.
• It has to look stunning (owner feedback, repeated: "not enough yet"). The videos carry every effect of the website: the dark Panel with BitAura (light along the edge, digits drifting off), BitGlow (light over the dot grid) and bit-aurora (indigo light drifting behind the drawing); slides change with the BitCurtain (ragged front of digits, src/lib/curtain.ts); the button has the bit-cta light running round its edge. When the website gets a new effect, bring it here as a pure function of the frame in src/lib.
• Drawings follow PathScenes.tsx: fine light lines, tinted glass surfaces (DRAW.tint, DRAW.glass) instead of solid blocks, amber packets with a halo (DRAW.mark), emerald for done, soft glows on what is active.
• UI in a video must be the website's real UI, rebuilt faithfully (owner feedback): read the component in apps/web/src/components first. The button is BrandButton (twin of Button.tsx); do not draw your own.
• Almost no frame (owner feedback: the drawing matters far more than what surrounds it). No border, no name, no topic label, no progress bar. Only one small line at the bottom: the logo, small and dimmed, and www.mintel.me (with www. so that it reads as an address). The stage is scaled as large as the frame allows.
• Light is drawn with plain gradients that fade to transparent. No filter: blur, mix-blend-mode or dashed strokes for glows: they came out with hard edges in the rendered video (owner feedback).
• Every video loops: the first slide is complete on frame 0 (it is the preview image) and fades back in at the end. Anything that moves outside the slides (Panel) must repeat exactly over the length of the video.
• Frame-driven only: all motion comes from useCurrentFrame() / interpolate(). No setTimeout, setInterval, CSS animations, Math.random() or framer-motion: they do not render correctly frame by frame. Pure logic goes in src/lib with a *.spec.ts.
• 30 fps, about 15 seconds. The video must work without sound and make sense in the first two seconds.
• Copy rules as on the website (see root CLAUDE.md): no AI as the owner's tool, no internal method vocabulary, modest and factual, no promises the owner did not confirm. Never write the full email address.
• The hero design of the website (binary-digit headline) is approved: do not recreate it here with changes.