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Claude Design can turn one master prompt and a short brief into a complete animated Instagram carousel, but getting clean MP4 files out of it still requires a manual export workaround through Claude Code or a third-party converter.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- You post Instagram carousels regularly and want to stop assembling each slide by hand in Canva or Figma.
- You already have (or are considering) a Claude Pro or Max subscription and want a repeatable workflow to get more use out of it.
- You're comfortable iterating on an AI tool's output with follow-up chat instructions rather than expecting a perfect first pass.
SKIP IF…
- You're on the free Claude plan — Claude Design isn't available without Pro or Max.
- You need guaranteed pixel-perfect video output on the first try; the MP4 export path here still needs a manual fix pass.
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Claude Design can generate a complete, animated Instagram carousel from one master prompt plus a short brief covering brand, topic, slide count, visual style, and export format. The creator sets the model to Claude Opus 4.8 with reasoning effort on high, fills out the intake questionnaire, and lets Claude Design build all seven slides with per-slide motion graphics in about five minutes. Edits happen three ways: a simple point-and-click text/style panel, a markup tool that lets you circle an element and describe the fix in chat, or a free-form chat prompt for bigger changes. The catch: Claude Design has no native MP4 export, so slides have to be exported as HTML and converted with Claude Code or a paid third-party site.
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00:00 – 00:07
01 · Cold open / demo teaser
Creator previews the finished orange-themed carousel with per-slide motion graphics before explaining how it was built.
00:07 – 00:47
02 · Browsing past Claude Design projects
Scrolls through a gallery of previously generated Claude Design projects (finance dashboard, docs chatbot, blog engine, TL;DR tool) to show the breadth of what the tool can produce.
00:47 – 01:24
03 · Finding Claude Design
Explains the Pro/Max subscription requirement and where the Design icon lives in the Claude web app and desktop app.
01:24 – 02:19
04 · Loading the master prompt
Pastes a pre-written master prompt into Claude Design and switches the model to Opus with reasoning effort set to high before sending it.
02:19 – 06:21
05 · Filling out the carousel brief
Walks through every question in Claude Design's intake form: brand name, colors, topic, slide count, visual style, animation behavior, aspect ratio, export type, and tone of voice.
06:21 – 08:15
06 · Editing the finished carousel
Reviews the generated 7-slide carousel, then shows three edit paths: the simple text/style panel, the markup tool for circling and instructing a fix on a specific element, and the open chat prompt for bigger changes.
08:15 – 10:44
07 · Exporting slides as MP4
Since Claude Design has no built-in MP4 export, exports a standalone HTML file and hands it to Claude Code to script a browser-based recording of every slide, fixes a rendering bug, then mentions a paid third-party exporter as an alternative.
10:44 – 10:54
08 · Outro
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- Claude Design is only available on Claude's Pro or Max plans — the free tier can't access it.
- Setting reasoning effort to high and switching the model to Claude Opus 4.8 produces more visually creative carousel slides than Claude Sonnet 4.6.
- Seven slides is the platform-recommended count for Instagram carousels to maximize engagement.
- Claude Design asks a full structured brief before generating anything: brand, colors, topic, slide count, visual style, animation type, aspect ratio, export format, and copy tone.
- Choosing video clips instead of static images per slide lets every slide carry its own looping motion graphic, which increases perceived production value.
- A markup tool lets you circle any element on a generated design and type a plain-language instruction, and Claude edits just that element.
- Claude Design has no built-in MP4 export option — creators have to export a standalone HTML file and convert it separately.
- Feeding the exported HTML carousel to Claude Code can auto-generate a screen-recording script that renders every slide to MP4, but the first attempt mis-ordered the cover slide across every export.
- A paid third-party site, claudetovideo.com, converts the same HTML/zip export to MP4 for roughly 1-2 cents per video if you want to skip writing your own script.
- The most reliable way to get pixel-perfect video output is to screen-record inside Claude Design directly rather than exporting HTML.
Claude Design turns one brief into a full carousel — export is the catch.
WHAT TO LEARN
A structured seven-question brief plus a locked model choice is enough to get a coherent multi-slide design out of Claude Design in one pass, but exporting clean video still takes a manual workaround.
02Browsing past Claude Design projects
- Claude Design keeps a running project history, so previously generated designs (a finance dashboard, a docs chatbot, a blog engine, a TL;DR tool) can be reopened and reused as reference points for new briefs.
03Finding Claude Design
- Claude Design requires a Pro or Max Claude subscription — it isn't available on the free tier.
- The Design tool lives in the same sidebar as Claude's other modes (Write, Learn, Code) in both the web app and desktop app.
04Loading the master prompt
- Switching the model to the highest-capability option (Opus) and setting reasoning effort to high produced noticeably better visual design decisions than the default Sonnet model, at the cost of more tokens per generation.
- A reusable, pre-written master prompt turns a multi-step creative brief into a one-paste action, which is what makes repeat carousel production fast.
05Filling out the carousel brief
- Answering every field in the intake questionnaire up front — brand, topic, slide count, visual style, animation type, aspect ratio, export format, tone — produces a coherent design in one generation pass instead of several rounds of correction.
- Seven slides is the platform-recommended count for Instagram carousels.
- Choosing animated video clips over static images lets each slide carry its own looping motion graphic, which reads as higher production value for very little extra effort.
06Editing the finished carousel
- Simple edits (text, font, color, alignment) are handled by a point-and-click panel — no prompting needed for small changes.
- Elements that can't be selected directly (like a small decorative icon) can be circled with a markup tool and fixed with one plain-language instruction.
- Bigger, structural changes (like an entire color scheme swap) go through an open chat prompt rather than the visual editor.
07Exporting slides as MP4
- Claude Design has no native MP4 export, so the practical path is exporting a standalone HTML file and handing it to Claude Code to script a browser-based recording of each slide.
- The first automated export attempt introduced a real bug (showing the cover slide before every numbered slide) that needed a manual follow-up fix prompt — AI-generated export tooling isn't guaranteed to work on the first try.
- Recording the carousel directly inside Claude Design, or using a paid per-video converter like claudetovideo.com, are lower-effort alternatives to writing your own export script.
Terms worth knowing.
- Claude Design
- A design-generation surface inside Claude (web app and desktop app) that turns a text brief into a multi-slide visual layout, including animated video-clip versions of each slide.
- Master prompt
- A pre-written, reusable prompt template a creator pastes into an AI tool to kick off a specific repeatable task — here, generating an Instagram carousel.
- Markup tool
- An editing mode where you draw directly on a generated design to point at an element, then type a plain-language instruction describing the change you want made to it.
- Reasoning effort
- A setting that controls how much internal deliberation a model does before responding; higher effort produces slower, generally higher-quality output at greater token cost.
- Seamless loop
- An animation style where the last frame flows back into the first frame with no visible cut, so a looping video clip appears to play continuously.
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00:01
“People are now creating months worth of carousel content in minutes using Claude.”
02:20
“Claude Opus 4.8 just seems to do the best job for this kind of thing, and Claude Sonnet 4.6 just doesn't quite reach that mark.”
07:40
“Sometimes it makes mistakes and the system is not perfect, and sometimes it can be a little bit frustrating.”
09:20
“Unfortunately, Claude Design doesn't have a direct export to MP4 option, so we're gonna have to do a little bit of a workaround.”
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00:00People are now creating months worth of carousel content in minutes using Claude and in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how they're doing that. So in front of me here is a carousel that I created using one singular prompt and it generated seven slides all following this nice orange clawed theme and every single slide has nice cool and smooth motion graphics.
00:20So for here, you can see the three dots are animating up and down and in here, we have the text, uh, cursor right here being animated and on the final slide, we have this nice bouncing motion graphics. So every single slide has some kind of movement to give it a bit more flare to it, a bit more engagement. So I'm going to be showing you how to create this exact same type of carousel for your social media and how to adjust it and tweak it so that it can suit your branding and your style.
00:47Okay. So the first step is to go to claw.ai and create a new account if you haven't already, and you will also need to get either the pro or max subscription because claw design, the actual tool that we're gonna be using in this video cannot be used on the free version unfortunately.
01:00But once you've got an account and you've got a plan set up, then come to either the web app or the actual Claude application itself and find the Claude design icon on the left right here. Or if you're using the actual application itself, it'll be in the bottom left of the app.
01:16It'll say something like claw design, so you just click that and open it up. But I'm on the web app, so I'm gonna click this icon, and it will bring you to this page where you can actually use claw design. So I actually created a special master prompt for claw design to specifically create Instagram carousels.
01:30So I'm just going to paste it in here and if you want to use this prompt for yourself, then you can either just write it out as you can see on the screen here or if you just want to copy and paste it, check out my free school community. You can grab the prompt, copy it and paste it in directly. Now before we actually send it off, I want to change the model from Claude Sonnet to Claude Opus 4.8, and I also want to make sure that the effort is on high.
01:52Now, this will use up a lot of your tokens every single time you generate a carousel. However, I do find that Claude Opus 4.8 just seems to do the best job for this kind of thing and Claude Sonnet 4.6 just doesn't quite reach that mark.
02:06It doesn't have that same artistic flair that Opus does. So without further ado, let's send that off and now Claude Design is going to ask us a series of questions in to gather the full context of the carousel that we're trying to make. So here you can see that it's listed out a whole bunch of questions, so all we need to do is just fill out all of them and once we submit it then it'll have all the context that needs or it might even ask us more questions before it actually starts to go ahead and build out the entire carousel.
02:33What's your brand name? Now, I'm not making this for a specific company, this is just for my own personal Instagram, so I'm going to put none and for my Instagram handle, I'm going to put my Instagram handle tyler momson. Now for brand colors, you can enter your exact brand colors here or claw design gives you some nice suggestions, but I'm just gonna let claw design pick for me, so I'm gonna click decide for me.
02:56And now for the topic and goal of the carousel, I want to do the exact same topic that I showed you in the example at the beginning. So I'm going to say the topic for my carousel will be and then I'm going to paste in the topic.
03:12So five ClaudeCode projects that you can build this weekend and I want the viewer to feel inspired and get some ideas for projects that they can build in a weekend.
03:27So, yeah, exactly what the topic is and then the final slide should be a CTA, so a call to action to follow my Instagram page. There we go.
03:40And how many slides do we want? So you can drag and select as many as you like but I find that seven is the best and it's actually the most recommended amount of slides for Instagram to maximize your engagement. Visual style and aesthetic, let's try playful and bold static images or video clips.
03:58Now, is an important one, so do you want your carousel to be just images the entire way through or do you want it to be video clips for every single slide? The good thing about video clips is that you can add like little animations and motion graphics on every single slide and I find that this just makes carousels a lot more engaging.
04:16So I'm going to select video animated clip. If video, how should it animate? I'm going to select smooth and flowing eased premium.
04:25If video animate text to or only graphics, I'm going to select, uh, where is it only graphics elements move, text static. This is just because I feel like if the text animates and it moves on slides, it's just not that enjoyable of a carousel. That's just me personally though because I just like to read text instantly.
04:42And now, if video, when does the animation happen, I want it to be a seamless loop. And for the aspect ratio, let's do four by five, so ten eighty by thirteen fifty. This is the recommended size for carousels.
04:55Export options, so since we are doing a video for every single slide, then we actually want an MP four video. And for images to include, I don't have any images to add for the carousel, but if you do, then drag them in and upload them right here, but I'm just gonna select no images, type, and graphics only. Copy tone of voice, let's do friendly and conversational.
05:15And for the final slide call to action, I'm just gonna leave it blank because I want Claw Design to actually decide for me. And there we go. So we've completed all of the questions and for any of these options by the way, I'd recommend if one of the options is not to your liking, maybe you want something different, then use the other selection box to actually specify exactly what you're looking for.
05:35Okay. So now that we're done, let's send that off. So let's just wait now and I'll come back to you when it's done.
05:40Okay. And five minutes later, Claude has now completed our entire carousel for us. So five Claude code projects you can ship this weekend.
05:47So let's go through the entire slide. So here, bank CSV, finance dashboard, and we got these nice little motion graphics all around. Next slide, group chat discord bot, recipe grocery list, self writing change log, a resume or portfolio site, and then finally, the CTA slide, build all five this weekend with a nice little pill icon saying to follow my page.
06:08But maybe for you, it's too much. Maybe you don't like all these motion graphics. Maybe you don't like this spinning square in the top right here.
06:15Maybe it doesn't make sense for your post. So something that's cool about Claw Design is you can actually tweak and edit anything on the page. So there are multiple ways to change and adjust the carousels to tweak it to the way that you like.
06:26For example, the simplest way is to do basic edits using this edit button in the top right and you can click on any element to either edit it or remove it. So for example, this title right here, I can select this text and remove this, click on save and it will edit the carousel page directly.
06:44So you can actually see on the left hand side here all the different options that you can mess around with. So you can select the text, you can change it directly from here, you can change the font, the size, the color, underline, make it italic, change the alignment and you get it.
06:59You have a whole bunch of different options and this is on the simple tab. You actually also have access to the pro tab where you get a lot more customization options and the code tab where you can actually adjust the code itself if you're familiar with CSS right here. But for the majority of people, the simple tab will be more than enough to make simple tweaks and adjustments as you like.
07:18But let's say that you want to actually make a change that you can't really do manually. So for example, this little icon right here, this tiny little star that's moving around, let's say I don't want that and I can't actually select to see if I double click, nothing happens. How do we remove something like that?
07:33What you would do is use the markup tool in the top right here. Basically, what this does is it allows you to draw a circle around the area that you want to change.
07:43So right here, I would just draw a circle around this icon and a chat prompt appears at the bottom, add a note to your drawing. And you can just simply say remove this small icon. Send that off and Claude will remove that icon for you and there we go.
07:57So Claude just removed that tiny little icon. But now, obviously, if you want to make a bigger change, so for example, you want to change the entire color scheme for the cover page and the CTA page, then you would just use the chat prompt in the bottom left and explain exactly what you want.
08:11Okay. Let's say now we're happy with our carousel and we don't want to make any more changes, how can we actually export every single slide as an m p four file that we can actually use? Unfortunately, Claw Design doesn't have a direct export to m p four option, so we're gonna have to do a little bit of a workaround.
08:27Now, you can just manually go through every single slide and screen record the carousel. However, you're not going to get pixel perfect results. So I recommend going to share, go to export and save this as a standalone HTML file.
08:42Then what you can do is bring it into an application like Versus Code or you can use Claude code in the Claude application itself. So let's drag in the HTML file and you can actually see all of it right here. This is all our carousel content and let's just ask Claude code to look at the HTML file and export every single slide as an m p four file.
09:01So after sending the prompt, basically, what it's doing is it's now creating a script which is going to open up our HTML file in a browser and go through every single slide and record it for us. Okay. So after a couple of minutes, Claude successfully exported every single slide as an m p four file.
09:18Well, I say successfully, but, uh, it actually made quite a few mistakes and the videos themselves are really low quality. They don't look great at all, not like Claw Design where it looks really crisp. So you'll see in the beginning of the video, it actually shows the cover slide first before showing slide one, and this applies to every single slide.
09:36You'll see that it shows the cover slide first. So this is a mistake. We need to get Claude to re export the videos and make sure that it actually renders at the full resolution.
09:45Okay. So I'm going to send this fix prompt out and hopefully, Claude can actually fix the issues for us. So you can see that sometimes it makes mistakes and the system is not perfect and sometimes it can be a little bit frustrating, but if you want to avoid all of this, then you can just record the screen directly inside of Claw Design.
10:02And there we go. So after some fixes, now we've got all of the slides exported as m p four files and they look a whole lot better. So now we actually get it in higher quality and it doesn't have the issue of showing the cover slide first.
10:14And now we can actually upload all of these straight to Instagram. Now I just wanna give a quick mention to this website claud to video dot com. You can actually drag the HTML file or the zip file into here and this website will export all of your slides as m p four files for you.
10:28This is just if you want to skip the whole process of bringing it into Versus Code and writing the scripts yourself. The only problem is you're gonna have to pay per video. It's something like 1 or 2¢, but it's just option if you want to consider it.
10:39And there we go. That's how you create high quality motion graphic carousels for your Instagram page. If you enjoyed this video and you learned something new, consider subscribing as I'm gonna be posting a lot more videos like this and covering a whole bunch of other AI tools.
10:51Anyways, that wraps it up. See you.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The creator opens with a finished carousel already on screen — seven slides, one orange theme, motion graphics on every panel — and a simple promise: it took one prompt. What follows is the exact brief, model settings, and edit tools needed to reproduce it, plus the export workaround Claude Design doesn't advertise.
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Claude Design Instagram-carousel brief
- Brand name + Instagram handle
- Brand colors (or let the tool decide)
- Topic and goal of the carousel
- Number of slides (seven recommended for Instagram)
- Visual style and aesthetic
- Static images vs. animated video clips
- Animation style (e.g. smooth/eased) and what animates (graphics only vs. text too)
- When the animation happens (e.g. seamless loop)
- Aspect ratio and export format
- Images to include (or graphics-only)
- Copy tone of voice
- Final-slide call to action
The full set of questions Claude Design asks before generating a carousel — answering all of them up front produces a coherent multi-slide design in one pass.
Steal forAny structured creative brief fed to an AI design tool — locking these variables before generation avoids multiple regeneration cycles.
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