Changelog video

A ~25-second release update for the weeks that ship several small things — same open, same pace, every release

Storyboard preview
<PRODUCT NAME><VERSION OR DATE><CHANGE 1> — <PAYOFF 1><CHANGE 2> — <PAYOFF 2><CHANGE 3> — <PAYOFF 3>Full changelog at <CHANGELOG URL><CLOSING LINE>
1The stamp~4 s2Item one~5 s3Item two~5 s4Item three~5 s5The nudge~3 s6The lockup~3 s
0:25750 frames, 30 fps
~25 srunning time
6 beatssame frame every release
1920×108030 fps, landscape
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Not every release deserves a launch. Most weeks ship three or four small improvements — a fix, a speedup, a new option — and that's exactly what this video carries. About twenty-five seconds, no big reveal, posted on a rhythm: weekly, monthly, every release. It's the lightweight sibling of the Feature announcement — when one change deserves the spotlight, use that recipe; when the week shipped several small things, use this one.

The storyboard

Block width follows the estimated length of each beat

  1. 1~4 s
    Stamp
  2. 2~5 s
    Item one
  3. 3~5 s
    Item two
  4. 4~5 s
    Item three
  5. 5~3 s
    Nudge
  6. 6~3 s
    Lockup
  1. The stampYour product name and the date or version land together, like a postmark. This is the recurring open viewers learn to recognize.
  2. Item oneThe change's name and one line on what it does.
  3. Item twoSame shape, next change.
  4. Item threeSame shape again. If a change is visual, show it instead of describing it.
  5. The nudgeOne line pointing to the full changelog.
  6. The lockupYour logo, one short closing line.

The value of this video isn't any single edition — it's the rhythm. Same open, same pace, every release. By the third one, viewers recognize your update in the feed before they read a word. So resist redesigning it each time; change the items, keep the frame.

Your words

Product name
  • <PRODUCT NAME>
Version or dateWhatever you stamp releases with
  • <VERSION OR DATE>
Three or four changesEach a name plus a one-line payoff, six words or fewer
  • <CHANGE 1> — <PAYOFF 1>
  • <CHANGE 2> — <PAYOFF 2>
  • <CHANGE 3> — <PAYOFF 3>
Changelog URL
  • <CHANGELOG URL>
Closing linee.g. "Shipping weekly"
  • <CLOSING LINE>

The prompt

Paste it into your agent with your words in place of the highlighted blanks.

text
I'm making a changelog video with remocn (remocn.dev).

Build a ~25-second, 1920×1080, 30fps release update for <PRODUCT NAME> in
this Remotion project, using remocn components — install anything you need
with `npx shadcn add @remocn/<name>`:

1. Stamp — "<PRODUCT NAME>" with "<VERSION OR DATE>" beneath it, landing
   together like a postmark. Short and confident — this open repeats every
   release, so keep it simple enough to reuse.
2. Items — one beat per change, every beat built the same way: the change
   name lands first, its payoff line follows beneath it:
   - "<CHANGE 1>" — "<PAYOFF 1>"
   - "<CHANGE 2>" — "<PAYOFF 2>"
   - "<CHANGE 3>" — "<PAYOFF 3>"
   If a change is visual, replace its text beat with a small fake app
   screen showing it happen.
3. Nudge — one calm line: "Full changelog at <CHANGELOG URL>".
4. Lockup — my logo (<LOGO FILE, or: use the product name as a wordmark>)
   with a closing line: "<CLOSING LINE>".

Style: warm dark background (#141318), off-white text, one accent color
<ACCENT COLOR>, Manrope. One quiet shader-simplex-noise field behind the
whole video. Keep motion restrained and identical across the item beats —
this is a stamp, not a show. Use my copy exactly as written.

Directing the result

  • Item two runs long — tighten it.
  • Hold the stamp a beat longer.
  • Change three is visual — show the screen instead of the words.
  • The items feel different from each other — make the motion identical.
More directing vocabularyDirecting your agent

Next release, don't start over — ask your agent to reuse this video and swap the version and the items.

Get the file

Ask your agent:“Render the video.”

You'll get an .mp4 in the project folder, ready to post.