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Preview and refine in the chat

Play your animation in Claude or ChatGPT, comment on specific moments, and download an MP4 from the preview card.

In Claude and ChatGPT, your animation can play inside the chat in a preview card. From the card, you can pause, comment on a moment, send your comments to the AI, and download an MP4.

Note: Comments are notes for the AI. Nothing in the card changes your animation on its own. The AI makes the changes after you send your comments.

Where the preview card works

The preview card works in AI apps that support MCP Apps. Claude and ChatGPT both support it.

In other apps, ask for a filmstrip (still frames), a PNG image, or an MP4 to watch the motion at normal speed.

Watch your animation play

The preview card opens in the chat after the AI builds or changes your animation, and plays it in a loop. The card is labelled Creator MCP.

To open it again at any time, ask the AI:

Show me [name] playing.

Comment on what to change

  1. Pin a comment. Select Comment. The animation pauses at that moment. Click the picture to mark a point, or drag to mark an area. The card shows the names of the objects under your mark.
  2. Write your note. Type what should change in What should change here?, then select Add comment. You can move to other moments and add more comments.
  3. Send them to the chat. Select Send to chat. The button shows how many comments you're sending, such as Send 2 to chat.

Your comments go to the chat as one message, with the time and the object for each comment. Some apps send it right away. Others put it in the message box for you to send.

The AI then updates the animation. Ask it to show the animation again to see the new version. The old card collapses to one line once it has no unsent comments or running exports.

Good to know about comments

  • If sending fails, your comments are kept. Select Send to chat again.
  • A card holds up to 32 comments.
  • If your notes are too long for one message, the card sends what fits and keeps the rest for the next send.

Download an MP4 from the card

  1. Select Download on the card. The export panel opens below the animation.
  2. Choose a Size from the list: Original (shows your animation's size, for example 512 × 512), Small, Medium, Large, 4K, or a custom size.
  3. Enter a Frame rate in fps (frames per second), for example 30.
  4. Select Export MP4. The card shows the progress. To close the panel without exporting, select Cancel.
  5. When the file is ready, select Download, or Copy link to copy a temporary download link.

Exporting from the card doesn't change your animation. Video renders use credits from your plan (see Creator MCP credits). If the card says “Video download isn't available right now”, this means the server can't create videos at the moment. Ask the AI in the chat to export the video instead, or try again later. If video is still unavailable, you can export Lottie JSON or a PNG image in the meantime.

Need another format? The card only exports MP4. For Lottie JSON, dotLottie, WebM, or a PNG image, ask the AI in the chat, for example: “Export this as hero.json and give me the download link.” See Export and save your animation.

Open in Lottie Creator

To keep editing your animation by hand, ask the AI:

Open this animation in Lottie Creator and give me the link.

The AI saves your animation as a dotLottie file in the Drafts project of your LottieFiles workspace. It then gives you a link that opens the file in Lottie Creator.

Good to know

  • The first time you open an animation, the AI creates a new file in Drafts.
  • Each time after that, the AI adds a new version of the same file, so your link stays the same.
  • The file uses your last saved animation. Comments you haven't sent to the chat aren't included.
  • Changes you make in Lottie Creator don't come back to the chat. To keep working on them with the AI, ask it to load the file from your workspace. 
  • Some animations can't be opened. The file follows the same rules as a Lottie export, so features that don't work in Lottie also block this step. See Troubleshooting: export, download, and workspace.

Edit in Lottie Creator button: In some setups, the preview card also shows an Edit in Lottie Creator button. It only appears when your connection can save to your workspace and your app can open links. If you don't see it, ask the AI in the chat instead, as shown above.

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