Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
iacguy
191 points
109 comments
September 24, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
threethirtytwo
What is the agent using to make those videos?
moralestapia
Wow, this is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing. If you're the author congrats, great work!
hypfer
Arguably, this type of content was already slop before the AI times, so nothing of value was lost.
spwa4
Can I just say "oh dear god no ..." (not that they were great before, but ...)
neals
Like many of us, I've been hobbying away on some SaaS that wraps an LLM. But I often worry, isn't this just adding buttons to an LLM call? What's the real value here? Quick money grab and wait for copies? Or do my 20 years of saas and business development actually make my SaaS better then others?
wuliwong
I don't want to be a hater but I made this a while ago and I honestly think the videos are a good bit nicer than what you are creating with Opus 5.5. https://mnfst.video/
lern_too_spel
This is just taking an existing presentation slides skill and generating a video out of it. There are no drawings and animations that explain the actual concepts.
monneyboi
I wonder what the future is of SaaS in a world where everybody can vibe up what they need on demand.
ceroxylon
Not sure if it is working for others, but if I point it at any of my domains I get "The model provider rejected the request".
preommr
These aren't even that good in comparison to the stuff being posted on Reddit and twitter/X. Some of the stuff I've seen is mindblowingly impressive in how they've captured quality creative decisions, and how the models can reason about visually appealing designs. It understands things like continuity, themes, facial expressions, cultural memes/references, symbolism, etc. And it generates things using a lot of multi-modal behavior by using 3d, images, etc. Some really incredibly impressive stuff.
etchalon
lol no it's not. I asked it to make a site for my TI4 reference project: https://axiomvortix.com It produced a video about an AI startup with the vague goal of centralizing data.
cryptozeus
My friend..definition of “good” is very relative. These are just flashy slide decks
minimaxir
One important difference between animations/videos generated by Opus 5.5 and the stereotypical AI slop videos is that Opus 5.5 is not a video generation model: it generates and iterates the code and renders it, and there are various ways for it to do so. The code for the infamous "I'm upping my p(doom)" video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-hR4fJywU ) is open-source and uses Processing: https://github.com/JohnHeibel/PDoomVideo
AISnakeOil
I've been experimenting with AI video generation beyond raw video gen for some time now. Opus 4.5 was the first tool I tried last year, and it was okay... Fast forward a few months, and Opus 5.5 is now running my entire video production pipeline. This model is leaps and bounds ahead of the previous model. I can generate a complete 5-minute explainer video on my MacBook Air M4 in about five minutes from a single prompt, using the Gemini TTS API and MiniMax H3 Max for b-roll. It creates thumbnails and titles, handles the entire process, and automatically uploads the result via the YouTube API—all powered by a Claude Code plugin. (youtube.com/@ctrlaltexplain for those interested).
kakugawa
Here are a couple examples from r/ClaudeAI: Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usageClaude Code Workflow https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wogab3/ Jaw literally dropped. I ran the prompt from the "Made entirely with Opus 5.5" post on my own project. Here's what Claude Code made on its own for about $4.Claude Code Workflow https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wovwao/
abroszka33
Yeah, and other models as well. YouTube is now full of AI explainer slop videos.
amelius
> Today's free videos are all used up. Deploy the agent to your own OpenComputer account and it runs without limits. So predictable.
dalemhurley
I had Sol 5.6 about a month ago populated a test account, take screen shots, write a script, used ElevenLabs TTS, with Remotion. It did an amazing job.
javhu
Building civ.game with Opus. Its fully procedural, threejs plus wasm. What a time to be alive.
Thorentis
I suppose we should've seen this coming (and many did) in the 80s. This is the late stage of digital and computerised media. We conned ourselves for a few decades into thinking this was a new medium for art or a new frontier of human communication, but in reality we were just training a simulacrum of reality, devoid of meaning or intent.