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  "generatedAt": "2026-11-03T22:49:39.280Z",
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    "shortTagline": "Programmatic video in React",
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        "evidence": "npx remotion render; renderMedia() Node API"
      },
      {
        "job": "Render a still",
        "reachable": true,
        "evidence": "npx remotion still; skills list still rendering"
      },
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        "job": "Preview in Studio",
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        "evidence": "npx remotion studio"
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        "job": "Render at scale on Lambda",
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        "evidence": "npx remotion lambda; @remotion/lambda API"
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      {
        "job": "Captions and subtitles",
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        "evidence": "@remotion/captions package; skills cover caption implementation"
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      {
        "job": "Embed a player in a web app",
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        "evidence": "@remotion/player library"
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        "job": "Batch render millions of videos",
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            "kind": "hosted",
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      "AWS (Lambda)"
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      "Not an OSI license: for-profit companies with more than three people need a Company License; Automators minimum is $100/mo",
      "remotion.config.ts is ignored by the SSR APIs; pass options in code there",
      "Rendering needs headless Chromium; Lambda has its own size and timeout limits"
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      "executionModel": "no model at runtime; deterministic frame rendering",
      "operability": "CLI and Lambda docs on remotion.dev; skills published at remotion-dev/skills in the monorepo under packages/skills",
      "effort": "remotion.dev/docs/config: remotion.config.ts controls codec, concurrency, output, Chromium, entry point; compositions are React",
      "editions": "remotion.pro/license: free up to 3 people; Creators $25/seat/mo min 3 seats; Automators $0.01/render $100/mo min; Enterprise from $500/mo",
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      "operability": 0.95,
      "effort": 0.85,
      "reach": 0.9,
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      "REMOTION_AWS_* variable names are from the Lambda setup docs, which were not fetched this pass; confirm",
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        "url": "https://remotion.dev",
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        "url": "https://www.remotion.dev/docs/cli",
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        "url": "https://www.remotion.dev/docs/ai/skills",
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        "url": "https://www.remotion.pro/license",
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    },
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