10 Video Effects You Can Make With Claude Code, Step by Step

Let me show you how to make motion graphic effects like these using only Claude Code. So, by the end of this video, you will have 10 motion graphic effects that you can actually use in real edits. And I'm going to show you exactly how to make them step by step. Okay, let's get going. The first effect is newspaper highlight.

And this is the effect that you see all the time in documentaries and on channels like Vox where a piece of newspaper clipping appears on the screen and a line gets highlighted in yellow as it's being read. So for example, Antropic says it's AI models hacked into the systems of free organizations on their own. This is a true article from BBC and the reason that it feels so polished is that the highlights and moves at the same speed as I'm reading it. And that's because Claude can transcribe my whole video with a tool called whisper. So it knows precisely where the highlight should be at each frame.

And if you give Claude the link rather than a screenshot, it can even open that page and capture the article itself. Effect number two, which is the globe. And this one is great for anyone who tells stories about places, travel, or your business's international expansion. For example, I could use this to show that my women lead AI community has members in over 70 countries. And then it can zoom all the way into a single city, which is the map zoom effect that you see in documentaries and a lot of travel videos.

Effect number three, which is text behind subject. This one is probably one of my favorite ones because it looks like it took hours of editing, but all it takes is just one prompt. The text is sitting behind me, but I'm in front of the background. And what Claude is able to do is run a background removal model on every single frame to cut me out and then stack the layers. So, it's background first, then the text, and then me on top of it.

Next up, we've got a title card. And this is the one that I use in my own podcast where I either introduce myself or I introduce the guest. And on its own, it's simple, but it saves a lot of time when Claude can just put it in by itself. Effect 5 is essential if you make any kind of tutorial because when I'm showing you something on the screen, it's really easy to lose people because they don't know where to look. So, cloth can draw a circle around the exact thing that I'm talking about.

Add an arrow or zoom in into small details so it's actually readable on a phone. And what I found works best is giving Claude the time stamp. Effect number six is chapters. Now, you might have noticed a thin bar at the bottom of the screen that's been filling this whole time and the little card that pops up every time I start a new effect. And that's a progress bar with chapters.

And it's really good for retention because people can see how far along they are and what is coming next. And the nice part about it is that clot generated the whole thing from my transcript. So it found where I start each new effect, each new sentence, and place a chapter card at each one. So I didn't have to mark anything by myself. And while you're at it, you can also ask it to write the timestamps for your YouTube description, which is really handy as well.

Effect is for those moments where a number is the whole point of the story. When I started posting about AI, I had 20 followers and today it's 12,000. Saying a number is really easy to forget, but watching it count up lands really well. And you can do this with any piece of data. Next up, we've got logo reveal.

And you know, every channel, podcast, or brand needs a short logo thing for the start or the end of the video. And this is usually something that people pay a motion designer a lot of money for. What Clot did here was take my logo file, sample thousands of points from it, and animate each point flying in from a random position until they all land in the right place and form the logo. And with this one, I would suggest asking for two or three variations of this because it's really fast to render and picking the best one is much easier than describing exactly what you want up front, especially if you're not a designer. Number nine is chat.

And this one is really good for storytelling. For example, last week a client messaged me something like this. And then the bubble appears one at a time with the typing dots in between which are timed to my voice. And Claude added the little message sound for each one. And the cool thing about it that you can do the same thing style as an expost, a WhatsApp chat, a DM depending on [snorts] what you need.

Number 10 is phone mockup. and to finish the effect I would use to show off all the final results of any edit. That's my finished reel playing inside a phone that flips and turns in 3D. And Claw takes every frame of the reel and warps it onto the phone screen as the phone rotates. And then it adds the reflection on top so it looks like real glass.

And this was the one that actually took the most of back and forth around I think three renders. But that was mostly to get the angle right and for the phone to look natural. In total, all 10 effects of this video took me about an hour. And most of that time was just spent waiting for the render rather than doing it myself. I've put all 10 prompts from this video into one document so you can just copy and paste them straight into Claude Code.

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