Installation

Install the package

npm install playwright-recast

Or with Bun:

bun add playwright-recast

playwright-recast uses ffmpeg and ffprobe for all video processing. Both must be available on your PATH.

brew install ffmpeg

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Download from ffmpeg.org and add the bin directory to your system PATH.

ffmpeg -version
ffprobe -version

Both commands should print version information without errors.

If you plan to use voiceover, install the provider SDK and set the API key:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."

export ELEVENLABS_API_KEY="..."

See the Providers section for full configuration details.

Once installed, head to the Quick Start to generate your first video.