AI Chat Input
Prompt bars, search fields and chat composers that type themselves — the shot where a product gets asked a question.
Reach for this category when the input is the shot: the search bar at the top of a landing page, the prompt box in an AI product, the composer someone is about to hit enter on. These components animate the query being written — and the camera that leans in to watch it happen.
The hard part is not the typing, it is the type. A field that resizes as it fills, or a line of text that re-kerns as it grows, or a scale that drags the baseline across the pixel grid, is what makes a demo look cheap. These components lay the sentence out once and reveal it by clipping, and they pivot every scale on the baseline — so the letters land, and nothing else moves.
The components
6 free Remotion AI chat animations, plus 8 in Pro. Each card plays its own default scene — open one for its props, the source file shadcn add writes, and a player you can scrub frame by frame.
Install
Components are installed into your own Remotion project with the shadcn CLI, and the file it writes is yours to edit — there is no snapcn package to depend on. Set the registry up once, then add components by name:
$ pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @snapcn/search-typingNeeds an existing Remotion project and a components.json. Two-minute setup if this is your first snapcn component.
That writes components/snap-cn/search-typing.tsx. Swap the name for any other component on this page.
Put it on screen
Every prop has a working default, so the component renders as soon as it is mounted — give it a composition and you have a video:
// src/Root.tsximport { Composition } from "remotion";import { SearchTyping } from "@/components/snap-cn/search-typing";export const RemotionRoot = () => ( <Composition id="SearchTyping" component={SearchTyping} durationInFrames={420} fps={60} width={1280} height={720} />);durationInFrames is the length SearchTyping is choreographed for — 420 frames at 60 fps. Cut it short and the animation is cut short with it. To use one as a beat inside a longer video, mount it in a <Sequence>of the same length instead of giving it a composition of its own. Each component's page lists its props; they are all plain values, so anything you can compute you can animate.
Next
- Installation — the one-time registry setup, and the Remotion project it needs.
- All components — the full gallery, filterable across every category.
- Agent skill — hand snapcn to a coding agent so it picks the right component itself.
Frequently asked questions
How do I add a Remotion AI chat animation to a Remotion project?
Every Remotion AI chat animation here installs with the shadcn CLI — npx shadcn@latest add @snapcn/search-typing copies Search Typing into your project as a file you own, written against the plain Remotion API. There is no runtime package to keep installed.
Are snapcn's Remotion AI chat animations free?
6 of them are MIT-licensed and free to use commercially; the other 8 are part of snapcn Pro — $129 a year for the whole catalogue, or $249 once to own it outright.
Do I need Remotion to use a Remotion AI chat animation?
Yes. snapcn is a component registry, not a video framework — each component is a React component built on Remotion's useCurrentFrame() and interpolate(), so it renders inside an existing Remotion project.