hyperframes

Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

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HyperFrames is an open-source framework for turning HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos. Use it locally with the CLI, from AI coding agents with skills, or as the rendering core behind hosted authoring workflows.

Quick Start

With an AI coding agent

Install the HyperFrames skills, then describe the video you want:

npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

Try a prompt like:

Using /hyperframes, create a 10-second product intro with a fade-in title, a background video, and subtle background music.

The skills teach agents the HyperFrames production loop: plan the video, write valid HTML, wire seekable animations, add media, lint, preview, and render. They work with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, and other coding agents that support skills.

For visual design handoff workflows, see the Claude Design guide and Open Design guide.

Manually with the CLI

npx hyperframes init my-video
cd my-video
npx hyperframes preview      # preview in browser with live reload
npx hyperframes render       # render to MP4

Requirements: Node.js 22+, FFmpeg

What You Can Build

Need ideas? Browse the Showcase for finished videos you can watch, read, run, and remix.

• Product launch videos and feature announcements
• PR walkthroughs with animated code diffs, narration, and captions
• Data visualizations, chart races, and map animations
• Social videos with kinetic captions, overlays, and music
• Docs-to-video, PDF-to-video, and website-to-video explainers
• Reusable motion graphics for automated content pipelines

How It Works

Define a video as HTML. Add data attributes for timing and tracks. Use GSAP, CSS, Lottie, Three.js, Anime.js, WAAPI, or your own frame adapter for seekable animation.

<div id="stage" data-composition-id="launch" data-start="0" data-width="1920" data-height="1080">
  <video
    class="clip"
    data-start="0"
    data-duration="6"
    data-track-index="0"
    src="intro.mp4"
    muted
    playsinline
  ></video>

  <h1 id="title" class="clip" data-start="1" data-duration="4" data-track-index="1">Launch day</h1>

  <audio
    data-start="0"
    data-duration="6"
    data-track-index="2"
    data-volume="0.5"
    src="music.wav"
  ></audio>

  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gsap@3/dist/gsap.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    const tl = gsap.timeline({ paused: true });
    tl.from("#title", { opacity: 0, y: 40, duration: 0.8 }, 1);
    window.__timelines = window.__timelines || {};
    window.__timelines.launch = tl;
  </script>
</div>

Preview instantly in the browser. Render locally or in Docker. The renderer seeks each frame in headless Chrome and encodes the result with FFmpeg, so the same input produces the same video.

HyperFrames Stack

HyperFrames is the open-source rendering engine, plus a growing set of tools around HTML-native video creation.

Piece	Status	What it does
CLI	Available	Scaffold, preview, lint, inspect, and render local video projects
Core / Engine / Producer	Available	Parse compositions, drive headless Chrome, encode video, and mix audio
Catalog	Available	Reusable blocks and components for transitions, overlays, captions, charts, maps, and effects
Agent skills	Available	Teach coding agents the video-production patterns that generic web docs miss
Studio	Available, evolving	Browser surface for previewing and editing compositions
AWS Lambda rendering	Available	Deploy a distributed render stack and drive renders from your laptop or CI
hyperframes.dev	Available	Community playground for previewing, iterating, sharing, and rendering HTML-native video projects
Design.HTML	In development	Visualize a brand identity and turn it into reusable, video-ready HyperFrames compositions

Catalog

Install ready-to-use blocks and components:

npx hyperframes add flash-through-white   # shader transition
npx hyperframes add instagram-follow      # social overlay
npx hyperframes add data-chart            # animated chart

Browse the catalog at hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog.

Why HyperFrames?

• HTML-native: compositions are HTML files with data attributes. No React requirement, no proprietary timeline format.
• Agent-friendly: agents already write HTML, and the CLI is non-interactive by default.
• Deterministic: same input, same frames, same output. Built for CI, regression tests, and automated rendering.
• No build step: an index.html composition plays as-is and can be previewed directly in the browser.
• Adapter-based animation: bring GSAP, CSS animations, Lottie, Three.js, Anime.js, WAAPI, or a custom runtime.
• Open source: Apache 2.0 license, with no per-render fees or commercial-use thresholds.

HyperFrames vs Remotion

HyperFrames is inspired by Remotion. Both tools render video with headless Chrome and FFmpeg. The main difference is the authoring model: Remotion's bet is React components; HyperFrames' bet is plain HTML that humans and agents can both write easily.

	HyperFrames	Remotion
Authoring	HTML + CSS + seekable animation	React components
Build step	None; index.html plays as-is	Bundler required
Agent handoff	Plain HTML files	JSX / React project
Library-clock animations	Seekable, frame-accurate via adapters	Wall-clock animation patterns need care
Distributed rendering	Local and AWS Lambda render paths	Remotion Lambda, mature cloud renderer
License	Apache 2.0	Source-available Remotion License

Read the full comparison in the HyperFrames vs Remotion guide.

Documentation

Full documentation: hyperframes.heygen.com/introduction

• Quickstart
• Showcase
• Guides
• API Reference
• Catalog
• Examples
• AWS Lambda rendering

Packages

Package	Description
hyperframes	CLI for creating, previewing, linting, and rendering compositions
@hyperframes/core	Types, parsers, generators, linter, runtime, and frame adapters
@hyperframes/engine	Seekable page-to-video capture engine using Puppeteer and FFmpeg
@hyperframes/producer	Full rendering pipeline for capture, encode, and audio mix
@hyperframes/studio	Browser-based composition editor UI
@hyperframes/player	Embeddable <hyperframes-player> web component
@hyperframes/shader-transitions	WebGL shader transitions for compositions
@hyperframes/aws-lambda	AWS Lambda SDK and deployment surface for distributed renders

Community

HyperFrames is used in production at HeyGen, with community examples from teams like tldraw, TanStack, and others in ADOPTERS.md. Open a PR if your team is using HyperFrames.

• Questions and ideas: Discord
• Bugs and feature requests: GitHub Issues
• Security reports: SECURITY.md
• Contributions: CONTRIBUTING.md

Development Note

The repo uses Git LFS for golden regression-test baselines under packages/producer/tests/**/output.mp4 (about 240 MB of .mp4 files). If you're cloning the full repo for development, install Git LFS first:

# macOS
brew install git-lfs

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install git-lfs

# Windows
winget install GitHub.GitLFS

# Then, once per machine
git lfs install

If you only need source files, you can skip LFS content:

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes.git

License

Apache 2.0