4k stars · MIT · no releases at all · Track this in Scout
Create videos programmatically in TypeScript — the living successor to the dormant Motion Canvas.
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What it is
A rendering engine that turns animation code into video files. It ships a headless renderer for running on a server, a browser preview player, and parallel rendering so one job can be split across workers.
What it is good for. Anyone producing many near-identical videos. Personalised clips, a weekly chart that has to be redrawn from new numbers, product videos generated per item. Doing that by hand in an editor is the work; doing it from code means changing one value and rendering again.
- MIT licensed, with no key, no watermark and nothing withheld for a paid edition.
- Built for headless rendering on a server, which is what makes generating videos in bulk practical.
- One command sets up a starting project, and the browser preview means there is something to look at while writing.
- It has never published a single release. Not one tag, ever, confirmed on the releases page and by a second source. That means no changelogs and no release notes, so working out what changed between versions means reading commits. The npm package
@revideo/coreis at 0.11.0, and that is the version to trust. - It has gone quiet. The last code landed on 15 July 2026, about two and a half months ago, and its ancestor project went quiet within two weeks of it. Meanwhile remotion-dev/remotion, which does the same job with 60,366 stars, pushed code three days ago.
- No memory or disk figures are published anywhere. Rendering video through a headless browser is memory-hungry, and the parallel rendering feature multiplies that, so anyone sizing a machine for it is guessing.
remotion-dev/remotion60,366 stars, code on 25 September 2026; the same idea using React components, far larger and far busier, and its licence is not free for companies.
Track this in Scout- motion-canvas/motion-canvas
19,182 stars, last code 2 July 2026; the project Revideo was forked from, built around an interactive editor for hand-tuning rather than server-side batch rendering.
Track this in Scout - tnfe/FFCreator
3,159 stars, and its last code landed on 19 December 2024, about twenty-one months ago; a Node.js video generator driven by ffmpeg rather than a browser.
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# needs Node.js and a terminal npm init @revideo@latest
