Fully Automated Product Tutorial Videos: Claude + Playwright + Magic Hour + Remotion
One developer automated the entire product tutorial video pipeline — from raw feature URL to finished CMS upload — with zero human involvement. The system, built over a weekend, now produces one video per day, down from 2–3 per month when done manually.
Stack
- Playwright — screen recording with humanized mouse movement to avoid robotic feel
- Claude — script writing and orchestration: decides what to record, teaching order, voiceover structure
- Magic Hour API — face swap, lip sync, talking photos, thumbnails (replaced four separate tools)
- Remotion — programmatic video editing
- Latenode — glue layer: trigger on new feature URL, sequencing (Playwright → Claude → Magic Hour → Remotion), retries on failure, final CMS upload
Key Breakthroughs
- Tone consistency: 20 iterations to get Claude's script tone right. The fix was feeding three hand-written scripts as few-shot examples — the author reports that pasting examples beats describing tone with adjectives every time.
- Cost: ~$2–4 per video vs. 4–6 hours of human time.
- Community acceptance: No users have flagged the videos as AI-generated. The author notes that demo videos with AI fingerprints are fine as long as they teach effectively.
- Architecture transferable: The system generalizes to any product with features worth demoing.
The author is willing to share the Claude system prompt and orchestration setup.
📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI
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