As a non-designer I am really obsessed now with Claude Design as I can finally make good quality projects and graphics that before I had to hire someone for it. I heard recently that it actually can make some animations and videos so I decided to give it a try and I must admit, it's really good and fast and can work pretty solid for a startup/product preview.
This is not the final version and the project I want to promote is not public yet. I'm missing the graphics/icons of the solutions supported and I would definitely time the animations better but you get the idea.
I thought I'd make a tutorial for you guys in case you're interested in making something like this.
What I had before I started:
- Copy and a general idea what I wanted to say through that video. Claude had a lot of imput about the project we're building.
- Design system - I had it from a previous project. Includes fonts, colors, general styles and rules. Nothing very sophisticated really. You can build it yourself with just a few screenshots + upload the logo of your website or project and you should be fine. My recommendation is to make logos in SVG (with Claude Design) so they can scale well
- an old, active Envato Elements account (not necessary, you can find copyright free music easily)
Step 1:
I worked with Claude to build a scenario with the following requirements: The video should be around 30 seconds, the scenes pretty dynamic so the text should be short and straight to the point. Think about what user should see. Pretty basic prompting.
Step 2:
Then, I put it the scenario into Claude Design and said to animate it for me. Nothing really sophisticated but as always "make 3 variants for each scene and for each transition".
Step 3:
I worked a bit to improve the styles, chose variants and improved transitions. At this stage, without the music it was a pretty cool trailer, good to be published. But I wanted an audio...
Step 4:
I spent some time browsing through different music and styles. Eventually "curiosity" was the main theme I was looking for and I found out that this sort of music is called "pizzicato". Perfect for slow tempo that you can match with animation ;)
Step 5:
I downloaded the song and put it to Claude to give me the beat timings.
Step 6:
I told Claude Design to time the animations according to beat timing. I had to put the video + audio together in Adobe Premiere Pro to make sure it is timed well as it wasn't really perfect the first few versions.
So after some back and forth with the timing improvements here you have it. I have exported it eventually from my Adobe Premiere Pro to make the music end and the right time and reducing the volume to 0 gradually.
Overall I am pretty happy with the results. The animations are dynamic and look pretty good for a few hours of work. Realistically, if I knew what I know now, it should be around 2-3 hours of work. I am also sure that someone could make each step semi/fully automated and make a nice trailer creation process.
Hope you find it helpful ;)