Export & watermark

Exporting renders the timeline to an MP4 with audio and cuts intact.

Running an export

Use Export in the timeline toolbar. Give it a name, start it, and it renders in the background — you can leave the page. Finished exports appear in the Exports folder of the media pool, where they can be played, downloaded or deleted. The History tab of the Export dialog lists them too, for a quick download. The folder only shows up once there is at least one export.

Exports do not cost credits. The generations that produced the footage already did.

What gets rendered

• Every clip on the timeline, in order, with its trims — video clips and images, each at the position and size you gave it.
• Embedded clip audio, unless you muted that cut.
• Everything on your audio tracks, at the volumes you set.

Markers, notes and canvas content are not rendered — they are production tools.

Resolution

MP4 renders follow the first video clip on the timeline — a 4K source exports at 4K, a vertical 1080×1920 source exports vertical, and a small source is not blown up. Anything above 3840 on its long edge is scaled down to fit.

If you set a frame in the viewer (9:16, 1:1 and so on), the export uses that shape and keeps the source's long edge: a 1920×1080 clip on a 9:16 timeline exports at 1080×1920, with the clip placed and sized the way it looks in the viewer. Square and vertical frames stay within 4K's total pixel count, so a 4K timeline set to 1:1 renders at 2880×2880 rather than a frame players refuse. Clips on higher tracks are drawn over the ones below, and any bars around a clip that does not fill the frame are transparent.

The Export dialog names the exact size next to Match source, and offers smaller steps (2160p · 1440p · 1080p · 720p · 480p) when the source is bigger than that step. Exports never upscale — use Upscale for that.

The free-plan watermark

Images and videos made on the Free plan carry a filmera.ai watermark. Paid plans do not.

The watermark is applied when the file is produced, so it belongs to that file: upgrading later removes it from new work, not from files that already exist. Regenerate a shot after upgrading to get a clean version.

When an export fails

The two common causes are a clip whose media is missing, and a timeline long enough for the render to time out. The message says which. Nothing is charged either way, so retrying costs nothing.

Last updated 2026-09-15. Prices, model specs and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalogue at build time.