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by TechSquidTV 81 days ago
I am always on the lookout for a tool that can replace Premiere first of all, but that that is easy to do. Replacing After Effects, no one has ever accomplished, even remotely close. I have actually been able to somewhat (big asterisk here) use Remotion in some instances as an AE replacement.

I can use Remotion for example, to design any kind of animation in code, and overlay it on video, which, especially with AI, lets me do quite a lot.

One thing I did for a while, was render some assets, and then with remotion I created a template, and a script, that would pump out videos automatically. Think similar in concept to like, a Daily Mail news video, where its just some music, some footage, and some text overlayed. Every video is the same, they just need to drag and drop some assets in and click Go. Remotion was great for that.

Still, I made the actual assets for the graphics in after effects. In mine, a date would "glitch" onto the screen and then glitch out. Probably possible to do with code, obviously, but was much more complicated than using AE to design that.