My first ever attempt at vibe coding a video. Had to start off with some Tron Lightcycles.

I saw a post from @trq212 about how you can vibe code videos using remotion. I immediately had to give this a try for myself.

My Workflow

First, I went straight to the docs and had Grok 4 give me a detailed document on how to use remotion. This was critical to getting my ai agent, Amp, to know what it was dealing with here.

Next, I have this to document to amp, and had the oracle review it and give me an implementation plan for the following idea:

Amp actually gave me some pretty good follow up questions to learn exactly what I wanted from the video. It asked things like:

Clarifying Questions:

1.Bike Behavior: Should the light cycles:

Move in perfect loops/rectangles like classic Tron?
Cross paths and create interesting intersections?
Move at the same speed or have some variation?
Color Scheme: For the 80's aesthetic, do you prefer:

2. Classic cyan/orange Tron colors?
Neon pink/purple/yellow combinations?
Multiple bike colors or stick to 2-3?
Grid Style: Should the grid be:

3. Static with subtle flicker?
Pulsing/breathing effect?
React to the bikes passing over it?
Audio: Would you like me to include:

4. A simple 8-bit background track?
Sound effects for bike movement?
Pure visual experience?
Resolution: The Oracle suggests a 240×135 virtual canvas scaled up 8x. Is this pixelated enough, or would you prefer even chunkier pixels?

The final result: Not great, but still cool

This was just a first try, but it gave me a pretty bad video. The grid was there and the colors were right, but the racing around motorcycles were far from my Tron dream. It reminds me of when I first started learning to use LLM’s to help me code. I could tell I needed to do a much better job of context engineering than I had been doing. But that’s the great part is I’m not done yet, I plan to keep trying to learn how to use these image and video generating tools to make some awesome content. I will do a post later on some cool things I have been able to make with whisk.