Idea to Motion

Idea to Motion — MCP server

Make animated videos by asking your AI client. You connect one MCP server, then ask for a video in the same conversation you ask for anything else.

Your assistant writes the script, plans each scene and writes the animation code. This server synthesizes the voiceover, aligns the animation to word-level timestamps, renders the frames and hands back an MP4. There is no timeline to edit and nothing to install.

• Endpoint: https://api.ideatomotion.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
• Website: https://ideatomotion.com
• Docs: https://ideatomotion.com/docs · Tool reference: https://ideatomotion.com/docs/mcp-tools
• Registry: com.ideatomotion/idea-to-motion

This repository is the public install reference. The platform itself is closed-source; everything here is configuration and documentation.

Quick start — Claude Code

{'language': 'bash', 'code': 'claude mcp add ideatomotion https://api.ideatomotion.com/mcp --transport http --header "Authorization: Bearer vai_YOUR_KEY"'}

Mint a key at ideatomotion.com/connect. Clients that speak OAuth 2.1 (Claude web and Desktop) need no key at all — you authorize in the browser.

All clients

Client	Auth	Config file
Claude Code	API key header	~/.claude.json
Claude web & Desktop	OAuth (no key)	—
Cursor	API key header	~/.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code (Copilot)	API key header	.vscode/mcp.json
Antigravity	API key header	~/.gemini/antigravity/mcp_config.json
Windsurf	API key header	~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
Gemini CLI	API key header	~/.gemini/settings.json or .gemini/settings.json
Codex CLI	API key header	~/.codex/config.toml
Kiro	mcp-remote bridge	.kiro/settings/mcp.json
Zed	mcp-remote bridge	~/.config/zed/settings.json

Full copy-paste setup for each, with screenshots: ideatomotion.com/connect.

What you can ask for

Three kinds of video:

• explainer — narrated. Your AI writes the script; the platform synthesizes the voiceover and times the animation to word-level transcript boundaries.
• motion_graphic — silent, on-screen text set to music. Needs no voice key, so it is the fastest way to a finished file from a standing start.
• recording — you upload your own video; your AI picks the cuts and the platform removes the silences and animates around you.

Aspect and length are independent: a 15-second 16:9 clip and a 5-minute 9:16 explainer are both valid.

Voice is bring-your-own-key

Narration runs on your own ElevenLabs or Cartesia account, connected at /connect. That is a separate bill from that provider — we take no cut and never see your key after it is stored. Silent motion graphics need no voice key.

Pricing

Creating and previewing are free and unlimited. You pay only to export a finished MP4 — from $1.00 per minute at 1080p, billed to the second. 720p and below are free with a watermark, with a monthly allowance. Full rate card: ideatomotion.com/pricing.

There is deliberately no export MCP tool. Exporting spends real money at a quality the user chooses, so it is an action you take on the platform — not one your agent can take on your behalf.

Client-specific gotchas

Config field names differ per client and fail silently when wrong — a mistyped key leaves the server simply absent, with no error:

• Claude web & Desktop — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the URL.
• Claude web & Desktop — You'll be asked to sign in and approve access — no key to copy.
• VS Code (Copilot) — MCP tools only run in Agent mode.
• VS Code (Copilot) — The root key is servers here — not mcpServers like other clients.
• Antigravity — Open it from the agent panel: … → MCP Servers → Manage → View raw config.
• Antigravity — Antigravity uses serverUrl, not url. Restart after saving.
• Windsurf — Command Palette → “Windsurf: Configure MCP Servers”, or the hammer icon in Cascade.
• Windsurf — Cascade caps at 100 active tools; past that, servers silently fail to load.
• Gemini CLI — httpUrl selects Streamable HTTP; plain url would mean SSE.
• Codex CLI — Codex is the odd one out: TOML, not JSON.
• Codex CLI — To keep the key out of the file, drop http_headers and use bearer_token_env_var = "IDEATOMOTION_KEY" instead.
• Kiro — Open it from the MCP panel: Kiro → MCP Servers → Edit config, or edit the file directly.
• Kiro — Kiro spawns stdio processes, so the mcp-remote bridge carries your key over HTTP.
• Kiro — The header has no space after the colon — mcp-remote splits arguments on spaces.
• Zed — Newer Zed builds can add a remote server from Settings → AI → MCP Servers directly.
• Zed — Note the header has no space after the colon — mcp-remote splits arguments on spaces.
• Any other client — If your client speaks Streamable HTTP, prefer a direct entry: url + an Authorization: Bearer header.
• Any other client — mcp-remote is only needed for clients that can spawn stdio processes but not call HTTP.

License

MIT — applies to the contents of this repository (configuration examples and documentation), not to the hosted service.