Download and export your video

A render makes your video file. After you change anything in the editor, render again before you download, or you get the older video.

Render and download from the editor

1. In the editor, select Export at the top right. On a phone, it is the download icon. When your saved video does not have your latest edits, the button says Update video and has a dot.
2. The Render and export window opens. If it says Your latest edits are not in this video yet., render again to put them in.
3. Choose the Quality: High (best quality, larger file), Medium (the recommended choice), or Low (faster render, smaller file).
4. If your plan includes high-quality exports, you also see Export format. The 2K and 4K formats cost extra credits. The list shows the amount, and you pay it only when the render succeeds.
5. Select Render video. A progress bar shows while the video renders.
6. When the render is done, select Download Video. To see the video page, select Go to video page.

If nothing changed since your last render at the same quality and format, you see No changes since your last render. Select Download Video to get that file. Render again makes a new file, and a 2K or 4K format costs its credits again.

If some shots have a lower resolution than the others, the window warns you that they can look soft.

Video size

• Without Export format, the video is 1920 x 1080 (1080p), at 30 frames per second. A vertical video is 1080 x 1920.
• Export format has 2K / 30fps, 4K / 30fps and 4K / 60fps. The Creator, Creator Max, Studio and Studio Max plans have it. On the Pro plan, the video is 1080p.

Download a video you already rendered

• In My Videos, select the button with three dots on the video, then Download Video.
• Or open the video and select Download Video under the player.

Both give you the last rendered version.

Download Video works for your videos on every plan and on a free account, for example after your paid plan ends. You must be signed in.

Update the video after changes

When the saved video is older than your edits, its page says Your latest edits are not in this video yet. Select Update video and wait for the progress to finish. The update keeps the quality of the saved video. Only the owner of the video sees this button.

Download clips and project files

Clip downloads and Export to DaVinci are on every plan that you can buy today. A free account does not have them: the button is off and its tooltip says Upgrade required.

The download is a ZIP file. It has the image and the video of each shot, and the voice lines as audio files. Use it to get your storyboard images or your voiceover.

1. In the Render and export window, select Download Clips / Export. On the video page, the button is Download Clips.
2. Choose Current scene assets only (the files the editor uses now) or Include past generations (every file made for this project, older versions too).
3. To also get one video of your current clips joined together, switch on Include stitched scene reel. This costs credits when the reel is ready, and we email you when you can download it.
4. Select Start download. With the reel switched on, the button says Prepare download.

Export to DaVinci makes a timeline file for that video editor instead. The timeline has the video's voice lines and sound effects on their own audio tracks, and a clip's own sound only where the video plays it. Download the clips with the same choice, then relink Resolve to that download folder. The narration files are in its voice folder.

To download the video of one shot, select the shot's image to open the shot viewer. At the top of the viewer, choose Video or Image & Video, then select Download. This also needs a plan with clip downloads.

Join two videos into one

LongStories cannot join two videos, for example a story video and a music video, into one video or one episode. The editor takes no video files. Join the two files in your own video editor:

1. Make both videos in the same shape: both horizontal (16:9) or both vertical (9:16).
2. Render both with the same Quality, and the same Export format if your plan has it.
3. Download both. Each one is an MP4 file.
4. In your video editor, put the second file after the first.
5. Export at the same size and frame rate as your files, for example 1920 x 1080 at 30 frames per second, at the highest quality your editor offers.

What you cannot download

• No button downloads only the voiceover. The voice lines are in the clips download.
• You cannot download a subtitle file or a script with time stamps.
• An explainer video is different. It has Captions (SRT) and Voice (MP3) buttons. See Make an explainer video.