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syrusakbary • today at 10:15 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Indeed, it's really great. It does the smartest thing of all: it creates an HTML page and uses raw JS timed animations to make it work. Then it records it with ffmpeg and saves the output as the final video.

About 6 months ago I spent 12 hours creating a video for our Edge.js [1] announcement that, in the end... people were not very inspired by (to say the least). See the video here [2].

Then, about a month ago, I spent 6 hours creating a video for our Wasmer SDK announcement. It was better, but still didn't go as viral as I wanted [3]. I always thought we would need a big budget to do them.

But then, yesterday I tried Opus 5.5... and man, I'm impressed. The video was one-shotted with this prompt:

    Make a modern slick and punchy video for this announcement:
    [content of the blogpost in markdown]
This is what Claude Opus 5.5 one-shotted (tl;dr: we went viral): https://x.com/wasmerio/status/2102849543260029379

[1] https://edgejs.org/

[2] https://x.com/wasmerio/status/2033966082944577693

[3] https://x.com/wasmerio/status/2094845905379922302


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wewewedxfgdf • today at 10:16 PM

>>> records it with ffmpeg

Exactly how? What does ffmpeg record?

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