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@remotion/three

is a package for integrating React Three Fiber with Remotion.

  • <ThreeCanvas /> will allow you to use useCurrentFrame() and other Remotion hooks within a R3F Canvas. Animations are now not inside a useFrame() hook, but directly rendered into the markup.

  • useVideoTexture() allows you to use a Remotion <Video /> as a texture map.

These are the only two APIs provided - for everything else you can use the standard React Three Fiber APIs.

Starter template​

Check out remotion-template-three, a minimal boilerplate for Remotion and React Three Fiber. It is a template repository, you can click "Use this template" on the GitHub repo to get started.

The template features a 3D phone with a video inside which you can effortlessly swap out. Just as easily, you can change properties like the color, size, thickness, corner radius of the phone.

The template serves as a soft introduction on how to use <ThreeCanvas /> and useVideoTexture(). You can easily delete everything inside the canvas to start working on a different idea.

Installation​

bash
npm i three @react-three/fiber @remotion/three @types/three
bash
npm i three @react-three/fiber @remotion/three @types/three

You are now set up and can render a <ThreeCanvas /> in your project.

Note on <Sequence>​

A <Sequence> by default will return a <div> component, which is not allowed inside a <ThreeCanvas>. To avoid an error, pass layout="none" to <Sequence>.

Note on server-side rendering​

Three.JS does not render with the default OpenGL renderer - we recommend to set it to angle. The config file of new projects includes by default:

ts
import { Config } from "remotion";
 
Config.setChromiumOpenGlRenderer("angle");
ts
import { Config } from "remotion";
 
Config.setChromiumOpenGlRenderer("angle");

Since the config file does not apply to server-side rendering, you need to explicitly add

json
"chromiumOptions": {
  "gl": "angle"
}
json
"chromiumOptions": {
  "gl": "angle"
}

to server-side rendering APIs like renderMedia(), renderFrames(), getCompositions() and renderMediaOnLambda().

Thanks​

A big thanks to Björn Zeutzheim for researching and discovering the techniques needed for React Three Fiber integration and for doing the initial implementation of the @remotion/three APIs.