A Series Is a System: Code-Driven Episodes for YouTube

The brief I build for: a YouTube channel that publishes every week and needs every episode to look the same without paying for a full edit each time.

What I made: a production system where every scene is a reusable component and every number, color and caption is a parameter. One change in the code updates every episode at once; 30 episodes render from one command; the same build outputs 16:9 for YouTube and 9:16 for Shorts.

The result: episode 40 matches episode 1, a late style change takes minutes instead of reopening 30 project files, and the per-episode cost drops as the series grows.

Tools: Remotion (React), FFmpeg, DaVinci Resolve, ElevenLabs.