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Export and deliver.

Choose what the platform or the client asked for, export one composition or several, and check the file before it goes out. The export renders through the same core as the Viewer, on your graphics card, so the file matches what you checked.

Open the Exports panel

Press Export at the top right of the window, or choose File, Export… (Ctrl+M). The Exports panel opens as a tab beside the Inspector, and the Window menu lists it too.

The Viewer keeps the view you chose. To check the finished picture as it will export, choose Output in the Viewer's view menu (0).

Choose a preset

H.264 for the web
An MP4 that plays almost everywhere. SDR in BT.709, with the composition's audio mix.
HEVC, smaller file
An MP4 in HEVC, for a smaller file where the platform takes it.
HEVC HDR (PQ) and HEVC HDR (HLG)
10-bit HDR in BT.2020 at 1000 nits, in whichever of PQ or HLG the platform asks for.
ProRes 4444 with transparency
A MOV in BT.709 that keeps transparency, for use in another project or editor.
Custom
Choose the Codec and the Output colour yourself: SDR (BT.709), HDR (PQ, BT.2020) or HDR (HLG, BT.2020).

Range, frame rate and file

Composition
Which composition to export. Composition settings… beside it opens its settings.
Range
Whole composition, Work range (set with B and N on the Timeline), or Custom range with an Export In and an Export Out. The Out frame isn't included.
Frame rate
The composition's rate, or another rate for this export.
File
Where the file goes and its name. Browse… picks a place; the panel warns before replacing a file that's already there, and asks for the right ending, such as .mp4 or .mov.

Export a file

  1. Choose the preset, the composition and the range.
  2. Check the file name and press Export. You can keep working while it renders.
  3. To stop, press Cancel. Nothing is written.
  4. When it's done, press Play to open the file in your system's player, or Reveal in folder.

Exports always use your original footage, even while the Viewer plays proxies.

Several versions

Each export renders one composition. For a vertical or square version, make a composition at that size, then export each composition in turn. Ape can set this up for you.

Export HDR

Choose HEVC HDR (PQ) or HEVC HDR (HLG), whichever the platform or client specifies. It needs a 10-bit HEVC encoder on your computer. Footage comes in through its own colour space and colour goes through OpenColorIO, so a camera log or HDR source keeps its range to the file. The Viewer shows SDR, so check the exported file on an HDR display before you send it.

Export with transparency

ProRes 4444 with transparency keeps the alpha channel, for a lower third, an overlay or a cut-out that someone else will composite. Anything outside your layers stays transparent in the file.