v4.0 Alpha

Remotion 4.0 has now been released. This page has been archived.

Thanks for testing and reporting bugs! 🎉

How to upgrade

See the changelog to find the latest version. Upgrade remotion and all packages starting with @remotion to the latest version, e.g. 4.0.0:

- "remotion": "^3.3.87"
- "@remotion/bundler": "^3.3.87"
- "@remotion/eslint-config": "^3.3.87"
- "@remotion/eslint-plugin": "^3.3.87"
- "@remotion/cli": "^3.3.87"
- "@remotion/renderer": "^3.3.87"
+ "remotion": "4.0.0-alpha13"
+ "@remotion/bundler": "4.0.0-alpha13"
+ "@remotion/eslint-config": "4.0.0-alpha13"
+ "@remotion/eslint-plugin": "4.0.0-alpha13"
+ "@remotion/cli": "4.0.0-alpha13"
+ "@remotion/renderer": "4.0.0-alpha13"

Make sure the versions don't have a ^ character in front of it.

Most important breaking changes:

<Step>1</Step> The config file must now import the config like the following:

import { Config } from "@remotion/cli/config";

<Step>2</Step> Also in the config file:

Config.setImageFormat("jpeg");

has been replaced with

Config.setVideoImageFormat("jpeg");

See how to migrate: Migration guide

Changelog

4.0.0-alpha22

Release candidate!

• Fix rotated videos with OffthreadVideo
• height, width etc. is optional when passing calculateMetadata()

4.0.0-alpha21

• calculateMetadata() behaves correctly on Lambda
• Fixed known crashes with OffthreadVideo

4.0.0-alpha19

• Nicer logging
• Warn if props are bigger than 10MB
• Upgrade ESBuild to 0.18 (TS 5.0 support)

4.0.0-alpha18

• Nicer and less buggy logging in the CLI

4.0.0-alpha16

• Intention: Lower the minimum required glibc version on Linux x64 to support Ubuntu 20.04

4.0.0-alpha14

• Make renders via the CLI faster using a reusable server
• console.log's are symbolicated when rendering locally using --log=verbose
• Fix bug in composition metadata resolution
• New design for the schema editor
• Upgrade TypeScript ESLint, Prettier and Turborepo

4.0.0-alpha13

• Fix editor props not being applied

4.0.0-alpha12

• More performant Studio

4.0.0-alpha11

• Performance improvements for the Remotion Studio
• Your component should do less unnecessary re-renders.

4.0.0-alpha10

• Renamed Remotion Preview to Remotion Studio
• Various fixes for the Remotion Studio
• New prop for Composition: calculateMetadata! See: Data fetching and Variable metadata

4.0.0-alpha9

• Various polish for the Remotion Preview

4.0.0-alpha8

• Props editor polish
• Fix a crash with <OffthreadVideo>

4.0.0-alpha7

• Fix bugs reported with <OffthreadVideo> and more verbose logging
• Refined editor
• Fix Lambda issues
• Revamped CLI verbose logging mode
• FFmpeg is now in the Lambda function instead of a Lambda Layer

4.0.0-alpha6

• Fixes EACCES errors appearing
• GUI design improvements
• Fix warnings if Zod is not installed
• Breaking change: staticFile() now encodes the filename using encodeURIComponent. You don't have to and should not do it manually anymore - see migration guide

4.0.0-alpha5

May 3rd 2023:

• Features the new Rust renderer enabling faster <OffthreadVideo>!
• z is not exported from Remotion anymore, instead, just install zod!
• zColor is now to be installed from @remotion/zod-types
• Overall polish of the editor

4.0.0-alpha.185+1b8f0e746

• Fix rendering with FFmpeg on Linux
• Make all strings as const when saving back to the root file to ensure type safety.
• New zColor() API
• New sidebar design and new mechanism for toggling sidebars
• Create new array items
• Zod union type support
• Overall polish!

4.0.0-alpha.127+bcc7f944b

Improve the saving back to code feature if you are using as const.

4.0.0-alpha.115+764023ad5

Initial v4 alpha release