Rendering & assembly: what happens and how long it takes

As soon as you continue to the Export step, the video is prepared on our servers and your tracks and visual loops are stitched into one continuous video. It's fully automatic — here's what to expect while it runs.

Typical times

Lite and Sound videos up to 30 minutes render in one pass, roughly twice as fast as before. Longer Lite and Sound videos render in two steps on the server.

Times vary with load. Everything happens on our servers from the moment you continue to export, so you can close the tab, log out, even shut your laptop — we email you when the video is ready (or if assembly fails), and the project page shows live status whenever you come back.

Statuses you'll see

• Generating — melodies, images or loops are still being created.
• Assembling — the final video is being rendered and stitched.
• Completed — your video is ready to watch and download.
• Error — something failed; the page shows what to retry.

When the video is ready

You don't need to download the video to watch it: it plays right on the Export step and on the project page. As soon as it's ready, the chapter timestamps — and the tracklist in the description, unless you rewrote it — move to the exact second each track starts in the finished video.

Rendering again

• Made changes? Regenerate video renders the video again without spending credits, as long as the length stays the same.
• If a picture was changed after its loop was made, the Export step shows which loops are out of date (Picture changed) and lets you remake or keep them before rendering.

Assembly and re-assembly don't cost credits — you already paid for generation. Reordering the timeline and re-assembling is free.