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cursor makes little animations for your videos

use ai to make animations for your videos

You can animate your videos with AI. I do it in Cursor: drop in a cut video, ask for animations, put them over the original in CapCut.

How-To

what is cursor

Cursor is an app on your computer where you talk to AI in a chat, and it can make files for you. People use it for coding. I use it for a lot of things that are not coding, including these little video animations.

You do not need to know how to code. You download it, open a chat, drop a file in, and ask for what you want.

Get it here: cursor.com

my flow

  1. Finish editing your video first. Cut, audio, all of it. You only need the floating animations on top.
  2. Open Cursor. Start a new Agent chat.
  3. Drop your cut video into the chat.
  4. Ask for animations. Something like:
copyhey, i want some animations for this. can you make my video a little more interesting?

Or get more specific if you already know what you want:

copyhey, i want some animations for this.

i want [this kind] around [this moment],
[this kind] when i say [this],
and [this kind] near the end.

A little creative direction helps. You don't have to give it. Cursor can suggest spots on its own. It just works better when you tell it the vibe or the moments.

  1. Let it make the files. If something is off, keep talking in the same chat: bigger, smaller, later, different word, more like this.
  2. Open CapCut. Put your original video on the bottom. Drop each animation file on a track above it. Remove the green background. Shrink them so they sit in a corner and don't cover your face.

That's the whole thing. Cut video in, animations out, CapCut on top.