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* fix(studio): drop the unused DomEditSelection import in PropertyPanelFlat CI caught it on PR #3026 (wa-12-panel-params); a later refactor in the stack removed the last use of the type here without removing the import. * fix(studio): close the typecheck and fallow gaps wa-18b-reschedule opened useAutomationLanes.ts's write() assumed gesture-scoped coalescing and a preview-only commit that useDomEditAttributeCommits.ts never grew — backported that option support from its own later commit so the two sides of the API agree. The paste path and its tests were missing the box selection's v0/v1 bounds a sibling commit added to AutomationSelection. The FX panel's carve controls still edited the six mechanism numbers (maxCutDb, bands, intelligibilityBias) after carveProfile() collapsed authoring to one Strength knob, so those fields no longer existed on HfCarveSettings; UI now edits strength, and analyseCarveBands is called with carveProfile(strength). Also closes fallow's complexity, dead-code and duplication findings on this PR's diff: extracted automationLaneDragMath.ts (pure group/point-move math) and useAutomationRangeDrag.ts (the marquee-select gesture) out of useAutomationLaneGestures.ts, pulled a couple of render-loop ternaries and a resolver into named functions, dropped an export nothing outside its file used, and shared a step-simplifier between audioCarve's two envelope builders. The edge-stretch vs. box-select priority test in TimelineAutomationLane.test was still pinning the pre-box-select rule (edge wins over a point sitting on it) that a sibling commit deliberately reversed — a point inside the box is now selected content, so grabbing it drags the group instead. Updated the test to the shipped rule instead of the old one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(core): cap the via conic's weight so an edge-clamped via point can't NaN A via point pulled out past the segment (viaX: 5, viaY: -3) clamps to (0.999, 0.001) — exactly on the steady region's edge, where edge - viaX is 0. viaConic divided by that zero to get an infinite weight, and shapeVia turned Infinity into NaN a few steps later (Infinity - Infinity in the quadratic coefficient). NaN reaching setValueCurveAtTime silences the automated parameter for the rest of the render. Capped the weight at 1e6 instead of leaving it unbounded — past that point the arc already reads as touching the via point, so nothing visible is lost. Also hardened shapeVia's existing denominator guard (`<= 0`) to `!(> 0)`, since NaN fails the original comparison and fell through it. Review by Miga (PR #3208). * fix(studio-server): fingerprint the proactive waveform cache key too The route already keys the waveform cache on the asset's size and mtime as well as its path, so a rebuilt-in-place file gets fresh peaks instead of stale ones. generateWaveformCache — the proactive path that runs on upload — still called buildWaveformCacheKey with the path alone, so it wrote to a different key than the route reads from (making the pre-generated cache never found) and kept the exact collision bug this fingerprint exists to fix on its own path. Review by Miga (PR #3211). * style(docs): run oxfmt on the /hyperframes-audio skill docs Table column widths had drifted out of alignment with oxfmt's own rules, failing format:check and blocking the Preflight gate every downstream branch inherits. Whitespace only, no content change. * fix(core): stop \b from missing underscore-separated names, guard clipsOverlap's negative duration \b treats `_` as a word character, so \bbed\b never matched bed_01, music_bed_loop, or theme_song, and \bvo\b/\bvox\b/\btts\b had the same gap — an underscore-separated bed classified as "unknown" and could end up offered as its own carve source. Replaced the short hints with a boundary that actually excludes letters and digits on both sides. clipsOverlap computed end = start + duration without guarding sign, so a negative duration put end before start — an interval that does not describe anything, and one specific case showed it silently dropping a real overlap (a shorter, earlier broken end rejected a clip that genuinely contained the point). Duration clamps to zero instead: a clip cannot un-play time, and a zero-length clip at its start is the sane reading of "duration nobody wrote down as positive." Review by Miga (PR #3212). * fix(studio): widen PropertyPanel's resetModules render timeout again The 20s margin (already once widened for the same reason) is timing out in CI's full-monorepo Test run — the resetModules()+fresh-import render this test needs is uncached and competes with every other package's test suite for the same worker pool, and the same test passes in well under 2s standalone. Went to 45s rather than re-tuning to whatever number happens to clear the current CI load, since that number moves every time CI gains a package. * fix(studio): stop the single-candidate auto-apply carve firing twice Two auto-apply effects both fire when sourceOptions.length === 1: the multi-candidate effect only guards length === 0, so a single candidate passes it too, and the single-candidate effect passes its own guard right after — both compute the same sources list and both call setCarve, so the common case (one narrator, one bed) triggered two decodes, two FFT runs, and two concurrent attribute writes for one decision. The multi-candidate effect now defers to its sibling for exactly one candidate, which already has its own detailed handling for that case. Review by Miga (PR #3213). * feat(core): carve against every voice over a bed, always (#3212) * feat(core): carve against every voice over a bed, always dynamically A bed usually runs under a whole sequence — a narrator, an interview answer, a second presenter — and carving against one of them left the others fighting it. `source` becomes `sources`, and `mixCarveSources` sums every voice onto the BED's clock before anything is measured. That is what keeps one analysis sufficient: the chain is fixed, so there is no per-voice filter to switch between, and bands drawn from all the speech there is with envelopes that rise wherever any of it happens answer the actual question — where and when is speech masking this bed. Summed rather than averaged: two people talking at once mask more than either alone. Audio before the bed starts is dropped rather than folded in at zero, since it plays over nothing and shifting it would put a cut where there is no voice. `dynamic` is gone. A fixed depth thins the bed through every pause, and once both have been heard there is no reason to want it, so every carve follows the speech. Two helpers the panel and the headless script now share instead of each carrying a copy — two definitions of "what does this name suggest" drift, and then the two disagree about which track is the voice: - `classifyAudioName` reads a track's kind from its id and filename together. `unknown` is deliberately common: treating an unrecognised name as "not a voice" would hide the one track somebody needs to pick. - `clipsOverlap` keeps out a voice that never plays while the bed does. An unwritten duration counts as unbounded, not zero — refusing a clip whose length the composition leaves to the media would drop the commonest case there is. Files written before this still load: a single `source` reads as a one-voice list, a stored `dynamic` is ignored, and an absent attribute means the defaults whole. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(core): stop \b from missing underscore-separated names, guard clipsOverlap's negative duration \b treats `_` as a word character, so \bbed\b never matched bed_01, music_bed_loop, or theme_song, and \bvo\b/\bvox\b/\btts\b had the same gap — an underscore-separated bed classified as "unknown" and could end up offered as its own carve source. Replaced the short hints with a boundary that actually excludes letters and digits on both sides. clipsOverlap computed end = start + duration without guarding sign, so a negative duration put end before start — an interval that does not describe anything, and one specific case showed it silently dropping a real overlap (a shorter, earlier broken end rejected a clip that genuinely contained the point). Duration clamps to zero instead: a clip cannot un-play time, and a zero-length clip at its start is the sane reading of "duration nobody wrote down as positive." Review by Miga (PR #3212). --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(studio): port the carve UI off the removed source/dynamic fields #3212 (accidentally squash-merged into this branch instead of main) changed HfCarveSettings from a single `source` + `dynamic` toggle to a `sources` list with dynamic mode removed outright — the multi-voice UI consumer that goes with that shape lands in the very next PR, so this branch was left with a type that no longer matched its own code. Minimal port, not the multi-voice redesign that PR does properly: the "Listen to" picker and analyse() treat sources[0] as the one voice this UI still understands, and every dynamic-mode branch (the automated envelope lanes, the toggle, the checkbox) is gone along with the field — a carve is now always the static value the analysis computes, matching what the type change made permanent. Test suite trimmed the same way: the automation-lane and toggle tests covered behavior that no longer exists. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 --full-depth
The picker opens with nothing pre-selected — the Core Skills group is all you need: the
/hyperframesrouter installs each creation workflow on demand. Agents and non-interactive runs should usenpx hyperframes skills updateinstead — it installs exactly the core set, whereas a non-interactiveskills addwithout--skillinstalls all 20.
--full-depthdoes a full clone of the repo's currentmain. Without it,skills addfetches the skills.sh registry blob, which lagsmainby hours — you'd get an older copy of a skill. (hyperframes skills updatealready installs full-depth.)
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.
Skills
HyperFrames ships 20 skills agents load on demand. Read /hyperframes first — it's the router and capability map; it picks a workflow for any "make me a…" request — video, deck, or composition port — and points to the domain skills below.
Default to the core set — the router installs each creation workflow on demand. npx hyperframes skills update installs exactly that from anywhere; the interactive picker (npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --full-depth) lists it as the "Core Skills" group, nothing pre-selected. The picker is interactive-only — a non-interactive or agent run without --skill installs all 20. Use npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --all --full-depth to install all 20 deliberately (skips the picker), or npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill <name> --full-depth for just one (bare name, no leading /). Keep --full-depth — it installs the current main; without it skills add fetches the skills.sh blob, which lags by hours.
Installs stay lean after that: npx hyperframes init keeps the core set fresh (the router, the hyperframes-* domain skills, and media-use — plus whatever is already installed; /figma stays on demand) and never expands a partial install; the creation workflows install on demand — the router runs npx hyperframes skills update <workflow> before entering one. Nothing re-pulls the full set behind your back.
Upload to Codex
Build the upload-ready Codex plugin archive from the committed HEAD version of the manifest, brand assets, and skills:
bun run package:codex-plugin
This writes dist/hyperframes-plugin.zip with a hyperframes/ root folder and fails if the archive exceeds Codex's 100 MB upload limit.
Router
| Skill | Use when |
|---|---|
/hyperframes |
Read first for any request to make / create / edit / animate / render a video, animation, or motion graphic. Capability map for the domain skills, the intent layer that confirms every creation brief up front, and intent router for the creation workflows below. |
Creation workflows
| Skill | Use when |
|---|---|
/product-launch-video |
Any website — marketing / launching / promoting a product (from its URL, a brief, or a script), or a site tour / showcase / social clip featuring the site's own visuals. Up to ~3 min (sweet spot 30-90s). |
/faceless-explainer |
Explaining a topic / concept from arbitrary text — no product, no URL, no website capture; every visual is LLM-invented (typography / abstract / diagram / data-viz). |
/pr-to-video |
A GitHub pull request (PR URL, owner/repo#N ref, or "this PR") → changelog / feature-reveal / fix / refactor explainer, read via the gh CLI. |
/embedded-captions |
Adding captions / subtitles to an existing talking-head video (footage untouched) — verbatim rail, embedded climax behind the subject, or pure-cinematic embed. |
/talking-head-recut |
Packaging an existing talking-head / interview / podcast video with designed graphic overlays — lower-thirds, data callouts, kinetic titles, pull-quotes, side panels, PiP. |
/motion-graphics |
A short, unnarrated, design-led motion graphic (~under 10s) — kinetic type, stat / chart hit, logo sting, lower-third, animated tweet / headline. MP4 or transparent overlay. |
/music-to-video |
A music track (audio file, video to pull audio from, or one generated from a mood brief) → a beat-synced video — lyric, slideshow, or kinetic promo; music drives pacing. |
/slideshow |
A presentation / pitch deck / interactive deck — discrete slides, fragment reveals, branching, hotspot navigation, presenter mode. Output is a navigable deck, not a rendered video. |
/general-video |
Anything else — longer or multi-scene pieces, brand / sizzle reel, title card, static loop, freeform composition. Input- and length-agnostic fallback, and the home of companion mode (co-create with the full toolbox). |
/remotion-to-hyperframes |
Porting an existing Remotion (React) composition's source to HyperFrames HTML. One-way migration, not creation. |
Domain skills (loaded on demand)
Atomic capabilities the creation workflows compose against — pull one when you need that specific layer.
| Skill | Covers |
|---|---|
/hyperframes-core |
The composition contract — data-* timing attributes, class="clip", tracks, sub-compositions, variables, framework-owned media playback, determinism rules. |
/hyperframes-animation |
All animation knowledge — atomic motion rules, scene blueprints, transitions, runtime adapters (GSAP / Lottie / Three.js / Anime.js / CSS / WAAPI / TypeGPU). |
/hyperframes-keyframes |
Seek-safe keyframe authoring across runtimes — GSAP timelines, CSS keyframes, Anime.js, WAAPI, FLIP, paths, masks, SVG morph/draw, 3D depth — plus hyperframes keyframes diagnostics for rendered motion. |
/hyperframes-creative |
Non-animation creative direction — frame.md / design.md, palettes, typography, narration, beat planning, audio-reactive visuals, composition patterns. |
/media-use |
The media OS — resolve any media need (BGM, SFX, image, icon, logo, voice, color grade, LUT) into a frozen local file or paste-ready block + ledger record, generate via TTS/music/image models when the catalog misses, transcribe, caption, remove backgrounds, and reuse assets across projects. One shared audio engine + manifest tracking. |
/hyperframes-cli |
CLI dev loop — init, lint, check, snapshot, preview, render, publish, doctor, plus HeyGen-hosted cloud rendering (cloud render) and AWS Lambda rendering (lambda deploy / render / progress). |
/hyperframes-audio |
Mix the audio already placed in a composition — voiceover carve (dip a music bed only in the bands the voice occupies, static or dynamic, level match included), the effect chain (EQ, compressor, limiter, gate, saturation, delay, reverb, chorus, phaser, bitcrush), and automation envelopes on volume or any effect parameter. Sourcing the audio is /media-use. |
/hyperframes-registry |
Install and wire registry blocks and components into compositions via hyperframes add. Authoring a new block or component to contribute upstream. |
/figma |
Import Figma assets, tokens, components, and storyboard sections → reconstructed motion (frames read as states, not slides) (REST/CLI) plus Motion animations (MCP) and shaders (MCP source / native export) into a composition. |
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 site-tour explainers
- Reusable motion graphics for automated content pipelines
Frame.md
frame.md — your design system, ready for video.
Every brand has a design.md. None of them were written for a camera. frame.md is the missing translation layer: it takes your web-context design spec and inverts it for the frame — the same tokens, the same rules, but rewritten so an AI agent can compose a promo video without guessing at scale or reaching for web chrome.
The output is a DESIGN.md superset your whole toolchain can read. Atoms stay sacred. Composition stays free. Numbers come from the script.
Biennale Yellow |
BlockFrame |
Blue Professional |
Bold Poster |
Broadside |
Capsule |
Cartesian |
Cobalt Grid |
Coral |
Creative Mode |
Browse and remix them all at hyperframes.dev/design.
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 |
| frame.md | Available | Invert your design system for the camera — a DESIGN.md superset an agent can compose video from |
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.htmlcomposition 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
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
- User research: Book a casual 30-minute conversation with the HyperFrames team — no preparation or sales pitch
- 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