Pro feature
Turn a carousel into a video
The deck you already made can leave the editor as an MP4. Pick how the cards move, watch it play in the browser, and render the file for Reels or TikTok. No video editor and no separate project. Watching the preview is free; rendering the file is part of Pro.
Render a video
01
Open the Motion tab
It sits next to Cards above the preview. On a phone it is one of the editor modes. The player there runs the same composition the renderer does, so it is the video, not an approximation of it.
02
Pick a preset and a pace
Twelve presets, a Pace slider from 1 to 5 seconds per card, and a Transition slider from 150 to 1000 milliseconds. Every change replays immediately.
03
Click Export video
The render runs on our servers and lands in the Renders list beside the button. You can close the panel, keep editing, or leave the page while it works.
An unsaved draft renders too. Saving the project only files the render under it, so the Renders list shows the jobs that belong to the carousel you have open.
The twelve motion presets
A preset decides what happens between two cards, and several of them also bring the text in line by line. Cards keeps type out of the scale so glyphs stay sharp while the background moves.
A collage slide animates as one card, so a shaped composition travels with whichever preset you picked.
Pace sets the length, and length has a cap
Each card holds the screen for the Pace value, and the transition overlaps the two cards it joins. Eight cards at a 2.5 second pace with a half-second transition run about 16 seconds. At that pace the 30 second cap fits roughly fourteen cards.
The editor computes the length before you click, so a deck over the cap shows Video too long instead of failing halfway through a render. Shorten the pace or cut cards, and the button comes back.
The cap exists because render time and cost scale with frames rather than cards. It is deliberately conservative for now, and easier to raise later than to lower.
The canvas decides the video size
Video renders at whatever canvas the project uses, so the format choice you made for the images carries over. For a Reel or a TikTok, set the canvas to Story before you render.
Frame rate is 30 fps. Which format to lead with is covered in carousels vs video.
After you click Export
- The job runs on our servers. Progress shows on the button, and the Renders list keeps the state whether or not the panel is open.
- One render runs at a time per account. Start the next when the current one finishes.
- The finished MP4 downloads through the app rather than a public link.
- Renders are kept for 31 days. A render is a pure function of its inputs, so exporting the same deck again after that simply rebuilds it.
- Re-exporting a deck you have not changed returns the existing file straight away instead of rendering it twice.
What the file does not carry
The MP4 has no audio track. Reels and TikTok both let you add a sound when you upload, which is also where trending audio comes from, so the silent file is the useful one to hand them.
Video export is marked experimental in the editor for a reason. A long deck can take a while, and a render can fail. Failures report the reason and cost you nothing.