How to Use Claude Motion
Three entry points, one prompt formula, two ways to edit, and an MP4 at the end. Plus the admin switch Enterprise teams need to flip first.
Claude Motion, step by step
Check you have Claude Motion
Claude Motion needs a Team or Enterprise workspace. On Team it is already on. On Enterprise, ask an owner to enable it under Organization settings → Artifacts.
Gather your material
Claude Motion animates what you give it. Have the report, spreadsheet, chart, screenshots or logo ready to attach before you write a word.
Open Claude Motion
Type /motion, pick Output → Motion in the message box, or start from a Motion template in the Artifacts tab.
Write the brief
Say who will watch it, where it will play, and roughly how long it should be. Those three facts shape pacing, text size and density more than anything else.
Review the first cut
Watch it through once without stopping. Note the scenes that feel rushed, the numbers that are wrong and the transitions that distract.
Edit by chat or by hand
Ask for targeted changes in chat, or adjust the animation directly in the editor. Because Claude Motion output is code, one fix does not disturb the rest.
Export and share
Click Export and choose MP4. Claude Motion animations start private; open one and click Share to send it to colleagues.
Three ways to open Claude Motion
Ask in chat
Describe the animation in a normal message. Claude recognises the request and builds it as a Motion artifact.
Output → Motion (or /motion)
Pick Motion under Output in the message box, or type /motion. This forces the format rather than leaving Claude to infer it.
Artifacts tab template
Open the Artifacts tab, choose a Motion template, then describe what you want. The template gives you a starting structure to edit.
They end in the same place. The difference is how much Claude Motion has to guess. Asking in plain chat works, but Claude may decide a static chart or a slide answers your request better. Choosing Output → Motion or typing /motion removes that ambiguity. Templates are the best start if you are new to Claude Motion and want a structure to react to rather than a blank brief.
The brief that makes Claude Motion work
Anthropic's guidance for Claude Motion fits in one sentence: say who will watch it, where it will play, and roughly how long it should be. It sounds trivial. It is the difference between a usable first cut and a generic one.
Who watches
Board members need fewer numbers, larger. New customers need steps, not metrics. Claude Motion pitches density to the audience.
Where it plays
A conference-room screen, a phone in a Slack thread and an embedded help page need different text sizes and pacing.
How long
Thirty seconds forces Claude Motion to choose what matters. Leave it open and it tends to include everything.
Then attach the source material. Claude Motion is explicitly designed to build from your own content, and an attached report beats a pasted summary every time — the numbers come through exactly, and Claude Motion can pick the figures that matter instead of the ones you happened to remember.
Editing a Claude Motion animation
Chat edits are the fast path. Anthropic's examples — "slow down the second scene", "change the Q3 number to 18%" — show the right granularity: one scene, one value, one change at a time. Because a Claude Motion animation is a program rather than rendered pixels, a targeted change leaves everything else exactly as it was.
The editor is for the changes that are quicker to make than to describe: nudging a timing, fixing a typo, swapping a label. Use both. Ask Claude Motion for structural changes; make small ones yourself.
One habit worth forming: change numbers through chat rather than the editor when the number appears more than once. Claude Motion will update every occurrence and any chart driven by it; a hand edit only fixes the spot you touched.
Exporting and finishing elsewhere
Export gives you an MP4. Claude Motion animations are private until you open one and click Share. If the clip needs things Claude Motion does not do — a recorded voiceover, licensed music, real footage cut in — open it in one of the supported editors instead of starting over: