Claude Motion turns supplied text, charts, shapes and images into a short, editable animation. Anthropic introduced it on October 8, 2026 as a beta for Claude Team and Enterprise. You can ask Claude to revise the animation, edit it directly, and export an MP4. For a report, the critical step is to compare every moving number and claim with the source before sharing the video. Anthropic’s announcement Claude Motion help
Sources checked October 8, 2026. This is a documentation-based explainer with a fictional exercise, not an AIViewer product test.
What Motion makes—and who can use it
Claude Motion creates an artifact from a Motion template. Anthropic says Claude writes code to animate text, charts, shapes and images. It plays like a short video, but it does not use a video generation model to create realistic footage or people. That distinction matters when choosing a tool: Motion is suited to an explainer assembled from your material, while a generated scene of a person or place is a different task. Claude Motion help
According to Anthropic’s current help page, Motion is on by default for Team and off by default for Enterprise until an organization owner enables it under Organization settings → Artifacts. It is not listed for Free, Pro or Max. Owners can limit Enterprise access to particular groups. An eligible plan does not establish that your organization’s settings allow it. Availability and administrator controls
You can ask for an animation in a Claude chat, choose Output → Motion, or start from a Motion template in the Artifacts tab. Anthropic recommends specifying the audience, where the animation will play and roughly how long it should be, then attaching the source report or images. Animations start private; sharing is a separate step. Longer or more complex work uses more of the plan’s allowance. These are documented product behaviors, not results from our own account. Claude Motion setup
The October 8 announcement also introduced Claude Dashboards in beta and moved Claude Docs, Slides and Design out of beta. Their access rules differ: Dashboards is on paid plans, Motion is on Team and Enterprise, and Docs, Slides and Design are on every plan including Free. Do not infer Motion access from a free account’s access to Docs or Slides. Anthropic’s announcement
A fictional report to animate
The following report is entirely fictional teaching material. The figures, proposed storyboard and flawed caption were written for this lesson. They are not a Claude output, a real repair programme or measured product performance.
Community repair café, two quarters. In Q1, volunteers attempted 40 repairs and completed 30. In Q2, they attempted 60 repairs and completed 42. The definition of a completed repair did not change. The report does not measure repair difficulty, volunteer hours or whether an item stayed fixed later. It does not identify why the results changed.
Two different views are valid but answer different questions:
| Measure | Q1 | Q2 | What changed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repairs attempted | 40 | 60 | 20 more attempts. |
| Repairs completed | 30 | 42 | 12 more completions. |
| Completion rate | 30 ÷ 40 = 75% | 42 ÷ 60 = 70% | Down 5 percentage points. |
The number completed rose, while the share completed fell. A video that shows only the rising completion count could leave viewers with an incomplete impression. A caption saying “our repair success improved” would be deliberately misleading for this source: it blurs the count with the rate and implies a quality conclusion the report does not support.
A 30-second storyboard with an evidence trail
This is an authored reference storyboard, not an exported Motion artifact. It shows a result to request and review if you have access to the beta. Each scene identifies the exact source or calculation it needs.
| Time | On-screen idea | Spoken or displayed message | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–5 s | Title and two quarter labels | “The repair café handled more attempts in Q2.” | Q1 40; Q2 60. |
| 5–13 s | Two paired bars for attempted and completed repairs, with a visible zero baseline and stable scale | “Attempts rose from 40 to 60; completions rose from 30 to 42.” | Both counts match the report; neither bar changes scale mid-animation. |
| 13–22 s | Separate rate view with numerators and denominators written beside the percentages | “The completion rate moved from 75% to 70%.” | 30/40 and 42/60; a 5-percentage-point decrease. |
| 22–30 s | Plain closing card | “The report does not explain the change or measure lasting repairs.” | Preserve the source’s limits; do not invent a cause. |
Keep the count chart and rate chart distinct. Bars should not secretly change their axis or denominator while moving. The animation’s timing should leave enough time to read the numbers and the final limitation. Those are editorial review criteria for this exercise, not a claim about Motion’s automatic choices.
A prompt and a correction request
For a permitted Team or Enterprise account, an initial request could be:
Create a 30-second Claude Motion explainer for a staff meeting using only
the fictional repair-cafe report below. Show Q1 and Q2 attempted and
completed counts on the same fixed-scale chart, then show each completion
rate with its numerator and denominator. Use the four-scene storyboard
below as the sequence. Include the report's limits in the final card.
Do not invent a reason for the change, turn a count increase into a rate
increase, or make a claim about long-term repair success. Return an
editable draft for review; do not share it.
[Paste the fictional report and storyboard from this lesson.]A prompt cannot guarantee a faithful animation. Imagine the deliberately flawed authored caption: “Completion improved by 40%.” That number comes from (42 − 30) ÷ 30 = 40%, the relative increase in completed count, not the completion rate. A precise correction request would be: “Replace that caption with ‘Completed repairs rose from 30 to 42, while the completion rate fell from 75% to 70%.’ Keep the visible count and rate scenes separate.”
Then rewatch the whole video. Fixing one caption can leave an earlier bar, voice line or ending card inconsistent. The report gives no basis for saying volunteer efficiency improved or worsened, because volunteer hours and repair difficulty were not measured.
Check the exported video before sharing
Use the animation review worksheet (Markdown download) to record the source for each claim and the actual frame where it appears. A reviewer should watch the beginning, middle and end, not judge a moving chart from one still image.
- Input: Did Claude receive the correct report version and only material you are allowed to upload?
- Labels and units: Does each number say whether it is attempts, completions or a rate?
- Arithmetic: Do 30/40 and 42/60 produce the displayed percentages? Is “5 percentage points” kept distinct from “5 percent”?
- Visual behavior: Do axes, scales and bar meanings stay consistent while the animation moves?
- Status and limits: Does the video preserve the report’s unmeasured factors and avoid an invented explanation?
- Final export: After editing, does the exported MP4 still show the corrected numbers and captions from start to finish?
Anthropic says you can ask Claude to change a word, number or timing, edit the animation directly, then choose Export → MP4. That editability is useful for correction, but a corrected draft still needs a final export check. Claude Motion editing and export guidance
If your account does not include Motion, the fictional report and storyboard still work as a planning exercise. You can test the numbers and captions before selecting any animation tool. For generated footage rather than code-based data graphics, our AI video evaluation guide explains how to define a shot and inspect exported clips.