--- title: When to use Claude Motion vs invideo description: Claude Motion animates charts and reports inside Claude. invideo edits its MP4 with footage, voice, music and captions on a timeline. --- Use Claude Motion when you want an animated chart or a short explainer made from your content, inside Claude. Use invideo when that animation becomes part of a longer video with footage, a voice and music, edited on a timeline. ## The same brief in both tools The brief: a 20 second animated chart intro for a quarterly report video. After the chart, the video cuts to the team's footage, with a voiceover and a music bed. In Claude Motion, you ask Claude in a chat for the animated chart. Claude writes code that animates the text, the chart, the shapes and the images. You change a word, a number or a timing in the chat or in the editor, and the rest of the animation stays the same. Then you export it as an MP4. Claude Motion does not use a video generation model, so it makes no realistic footage or people. In invideo, the MP4 comes into the project through the `import-claude-motion-from-url` tool, or your agent uploads the file with `start_upload` and `add_media`. The agent places it first on a timeline, then adds the team's footage after it. It voices the script with a TTS model such as `elevenlabs_text_to_speech.elevenlabs_tts_v4`, adds music from `search_library`, and adds captions with `add_captions`. You review the cut in the editor, and the agent runs `capture` and `export`. ## At a glance The rows below are the ones that change the choice for this job. | | Claude Motion | invideo | | --- | --- | --- | | What it makes | Animated charts, explainers and walkthroughs from your content | A full video from footage, stills, voice and music | | How it works | Claude writes animation code | Edit operations on a real timeline | | Change one detail | Ask Claude, or edit in its editor; the rest stays the same | Change one clip, text or keyframe; the rest stays the same | | Footage and people | None; no video generation model | Your footage, stock, and video models through `generate` | | Voice and music | Not in its help article | TTS models, voice clones, stock music and music models | | Captions | Not in its help article | An editable caption track | | Agent access | Inside Claude | CLI and skills for terminal agents; MCP server for clients without a shell | | Files out | MP4 | MP4, or a Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve project | | Sharing | Private by default; share from the animation | Export pages and project URLs | Checked on 29 October 2026 against Anthropic's Get started with Claude Motion help article. ## Use Claude Motion when Claude Motion fits motion that comes straight from your content. - You want an animated chart for a board deck or an all-hands. - The data and the draft already live in your Claude chat. - You change numbers and words often and want the rest to stay put. - The whole video is text, charts, shapes and images, with no footage. ## Use invideo when invideo fits when the animation is one part of a video. - The video needs real footage, stock or generated shots around the animation. - It needs a voiceover, music that clears rights, or captions. - A person reviews and changes the full cut on a timeline. - You make versions for different platforms from one edit. - An editor finishes it in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Edits and exports are free. Generation and transcripts cost credits. Paid stock costs a small credit charge, or one of your workspace's iStock licenses. Your agent runs a dry run first and tells you the price before it spends anything. Models retire. If a model is not found, your agent runs `find_models` with the job in words, uses the best match, and tells you. ## Use both Make the animation in Claude Motion, then finish the video in invideo. The hand-off is the MP4. 1. Make the chart or explainer in Claude Motion. 2. Export it as an MP4. 3. Bring it into an invideo project with `import-claude-motion-from-url`, or upload it with `start_upload` and `add_media`. 4. Add footage, voice, music and captions on a timeline. 5. Run `capture`, then `export`. To change a number in the chart, change it in Claude Motion and export again. Your agent then replaces the clip on the timeline and keeps the rest of the cut. ## What Claude Motion does better Say it plainly: for animating your own content, Claude Motion is the shorter path. - It works where your content already is, in the chat. - It turns a chart or a report into motion with no timeline work. - One changed number or word leaves the rest of the animation the same. - You need no footage at all. ## Related - [Use Claude Motion with invideo](/integrations/claude-motion) - [Make a training explainer from a document, without an avatar](/how-to/training/explainer-from-a-document) - [Voice a script or narrate a course](/how-to/training/voice-a-script-or-narrate-a-course) - [AI video tools compared, including invideo](/compare/alternatives) - [invideo for AI agents](/agents)