Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

Here are a couple examples from r/ClaudeAI:

Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usageClaude Code Workflow

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wogab3/

Jaw literally dropped. I ran the prompt from the "Made entirely with Opus 5.5" post on my own project. Here's what Claude Code made on its own for about $4.Claude Code Workflow

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wovwao/

Like many of us, I've been hobbying away on some SaaS that wraps an LLM. But I often worry, isn't this just adding buttons to an LLM call? What's the real value here? Quick money grab and wait for copies? Or do my 20 years of saas and business development actually make my SaaS better then others?

These explainer videos are garbage, whether done by humans or not. Just like those crappy Netflix "documentaries". Don't get me wrong, it's impressive, but it's just a more automated way of outputting low effort, low quality content

These aren't even that good in comparison to the stuff being posted on Reddit and twitter/X.

Some of the stuff I've seen is mindblowingly impressive in how they've captured quality creative decisions, and how the models can reason about visually appealing designs.

It understands things like continuity, themes, facial expressions, cultural memes/references, symbolism, etc. And it generates things using a lot of multi-modal behavior by using 3d, images, etc.

Some really incredibly impressive stuff.

Indeed, it's really great. It does the smartest thing of all: it creates an HTML page and uses raw JS timed animations to make it work. Then it records it with ffmpeg and saves the output as the final video.

About 6 months ago I spent 12 hours creating a video for our Edge.js [1] announcement that, in the end... people were not very inspired by (to say the least). See the video here [2].

Then, about a month ago, I spent 6 hours creating a video for our Wasmer SDK announcement. It was better, but still didn't go as viral as I wanted [3]. I always thought we would need a big budget to do them.

But then, yesterday I tried Opus 5.5... and man, I'm impressed. The video was one-shotted with this prompt:

    Make a modern slick and punchy video for this announcement:
    [content of the blogpost in markdown]

This is what Claude Opus 5.5 one-shotted (tl;dr: we went viral): https://x.com/wasmerio/status/2102849543260029379

[1] https://edgejs.org/

[2] https://x.com/wasmerio/status/2033966082944577693

[3] https://x.com/wasmerio/status/2094845905379922302

I tried it, but I can't see the video. The model just outputs this in the chat: /root/workspace/renderer/out/local.mp4

No way to download or watch it in the webapp of opencomputer. No instructions on what to do? Do I need to run it locally? It seems it did use usage.

Building civ.game with Opus. Its fully procedural, threejs plus wasm. What a time to be alive.

So this is making HTML pages?

What exactly renders the video from the HTML page?

I've been experimenting with AI video generation beyond raw video gen for some time now. Opus 4.5 was the first tool I tried last year, and it was okay...

Fast forward a few months, and Opus 5.5 is now running my entire video production pipeline. This model is leaps and bounds ahead of the previous model.

I can generate a complete 5-minute explainer video on my MacBook Air M4 in about five minutes from a single prompt, using the Gemini TTS API and MiniMax H3 Max for b-roll. It creates thumbnails and titles, handles the entire process, and automatically uploads the result via the YouTube API—all powered by a Claude Code plugin. (youtube.com/@ctrlaltexplain for those interested).

I had Sol 5.6 about a month ago populated a test account, take screen shots, write a script, used ElevenLabs TTS, with Remotion. It did an amazing job.

My friend..definition of “good” is very relative. These are just flashy slide decks

Not sure if it is working for others, but if I point it at any of my domains I get "The model provider rejected the request".

One important difference between animations/videos generated by Opus 5.5 and the stereotypical AI slop videos is that Opus 5.5 is not a video generation model: it generates and iterates the code and renders it, and there are various ways for it to do so.

The code for the infamous "I'm upping my p(doom)" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-hR4fJywU) is open-source and uses Processing: https://github.com/JohnHeibel/PDoomVideo

I suppose we should've seen this coming (and many did) in the 80s. This is the late stage of digital and computerised media. We conned ourselves for a few decades into thinking this was a new medium for art or a new frontier of human communication, but in reality we were just training a simulacrum of reality, devoid of meaning or intent.

I wonder what the future is of SaaS in a world where everybody can vibe up what they need on demand.

Arguably, this type of content was already slop before the AI times, so nothing of value was lost.

I don't want to be a hater but I made this a while ago and I honestly think the videos are a good bit nicer than what you are creating with Opus 5.5. https://mnfst.video/

What is the agent using to make those videos?

> Today's free videos are all used up. Deploy the agent to your own OpenComputer account and it runs without limits.

So predictable.

This is just taking an existing presentation slides skill and generating a video out of it. There are no drawings and animations that explain the actual concepts.

lol no it's not.

I asked it to make a site for my TI4 reference project: https://axiomvortix.com

It produced a video about an AI startup with the vague goal of centralizing data.

Yeah, and other models as well. YouTube is now full of AI explainer slop videos.

Can I just say "oh dear god no ..."

(not that they were great before, but ...)

Wow, this is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing.

If you're the author congrats, great work!