Idea to Motion MCP server

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

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

What you can ask for

Three kinds of video:

the voiceover and times the animation to word-level transcript boundaries.

• explainer — narrated. Your AI writes the script; the platform synthesizes

key**, so it is the fastest way to a finished file from a standing start.

• motiongraphic — silent, on-screen text set to music. Needs no voice

platform removes the silences and animates around you.

• recording — you upload your own video; your AI picks the cuts and the

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:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.