Working with Kinetograph

Kinetograph renders video without a browser. You write TypeScript with the Remotion API and a few native elements; Node runs it; a GPU compositor draws it. You cannot watch a video, so you look at single frames and read the scene graph.

To move an existing Remotion project onto Kinetograph, use the kinetograph-migrate skill.

Run everything as npx kinetograph <command>. Add --json to get one JSON object you can parse; a failure is { "error": { "code", "message" } } with exit code 1. (Over MCP (kinetograph mcp) there is one tool per command except studio, named like the command (audio analyze is audio_analyze), with the same arguments; still, strip and onion return the image itself, and output is optional for them.)

The loop