Guides · 8 articles
AI and coding agents
How AI tools make videos today: coding agents that write and render animations, text-to-video models, avatars and script-to-video tools, and where each one fits.
How to Make Videos with Claude Code
Claude Code is a terminal-based coding agent that can read project files, write code, run commands, and revise its work.
9 min readCan Claude Generate Videos?
Claude does not generate video files on its own. Anthropic’s current model documentation says that Claude models accept text and image input and produce…
6 min readVideo Editing with Claude Code: What Works and What Doesn't
For video editors who repeat the same steps across many projects, Claude Code can automate much of a programmatic video-editing workflow.
8 min readHow to Make Videos with OpenAI Codex CLI
OpenAI Codex CLI is a coding agent that runs in your terminal. From your computer, you can direct Codex through text to work with files and developer tools.
8 min readHow to Make Videos with Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI has no documented built-in command that turns a text prompt into a finished video. Use it as a production assistant instead: generate the script…
7 min readAI Explainer Video Generators: How They Work and What to Expect
AI explainer video generators turn written material into a narrated video. The source can be an idea, a script, a document, or a presentation.
6 min readAI Animation Generators: What They Can and Can't Do
AI animation generators create moving images from written prompts, still images, characters, or existing video.
7 min readScript to Video with AI: Turning a Script into a Narrated Video
Script-to-video AI turns written words into a narrated video. It combines synthetic speech with visual scenes, captions, music, and layouts.
4 min readVideos made with explainroo
A coding agent made each of these with explainroo, from the script to the finished MP4.
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How explainroo makes a video
A coding agent made this video with explainroo. It shows how a script and a bit of JavaScript become a narrated video, with a voice that runs on your own computer.
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What an API does
An API is how one program asks another for something, shown with an online shop that asks a shipping service for a delivery date.
Free and open source
Make your own with your AI agent
explainroo lets a coding agent like Claude Code or Codex make narrated explainer videos and product demos. The voice, the word timing and the rendering run on your own computer, with no API key and no cost per video.
Copy this into your AI agent
Make me a short explainer video about [your topic]. Use explainroo for it: clone https://github.com/vincentsch/explainroo, read its AGENTS.md and follow the steps.
Made with explainroo: How explainroo makes a video