Exporting your film

Your film is rendered in your browser, on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to do it, and it costs nothing.

Export

1. Click Render at the top right of the editor.

   

   

2. Choose a Format — MP4, MOV (ProRes) or WebM — and a Quality: High, Medium or Low. If you have set a work range, choose Full timeline or just In to out.

   If the timeline has captions, Burn in captions is shown, turned on: the captions are drawn into the picture. Turn it off for a clean video, and save the captions as a file instead; see Captions.

3. Click Export and choose where to save the file. A progress bar shows how far it has got; you can cancel at any time.

If your browser cannot encode the format you chose, the dialog says so and suggests another.

Loudness

Loudness brings the sound of the file to a set level. None (as mixed) leaves it exactly as you mixed it. Social (−14 LUFS) suits social media and video sites, and Broadcast (−23 LUFS) suits television. It is the same Target as in the Mixer, so changing one changes the other; see Mixing sound.

1. Choose a level under Loudness before you click Export. The whole sound is turned up or down by one amount, so the balance you set in the Mixer stays the same.

When the export is done, the dialog says what the file measures. The sound is never turned up so far that its true peak would go above −1 dBTP: if that stops it short of the level, the dialog says so. A Limiter on the loud parts lets the export get closer; see Mixing sound. A file with no sound loud enough to measure is left as it is.

The sound in the file is what you hear in the preview: the clips on your audio tracks. A video placed without its audio — for example with Include audio turned off — stays silent in the export. A timeline placed inside another plays its own audio tracks, at the level you set on its audio clip.

After the export

Once a file is exported, the dialog widens to show it: a preview, its size and length, and how long it took to render.

From there you can make two more versions. Both are generated, so both are paid — hover over either button to see its Estimated cost before you start, and you are charged only when the result is ready.

1. Choose Upscale to 4K for a larger copy of your film using Topaz Proteus automatically. There is no engine menu. Motion, frame rate and audio are retained. Export at 720p or 1080p first if the source would need more than 4× scaling.

• Reframe — a copy at another aspect ratio, for example vertical for social media. It keeps your whole picture and generates new image at the edges, rather than cropping. Choose 1080p or 720p for a film of up to 60 seconds. 540p is a lower-cost choice for a film of up to 10 seconds, and it offers a few different ratios — including 21:9 for a cinema look — so if the ratio you picked is not among them, the closest one is chosen for you. Each reframed copy also lands in Assets, in a Reframe folder, named after your film and its ratio — for example Scene 1 — 9:16 — so you can drag it onto a timeline. You can rename or move the folder; new reframes still go into it.

Both run in the Job Queue, so you can close the dialog while they work.