Edit & export / Export

Every format, fast.

MP4, HEVC, ProRes or GIF at the quality you choose, landscape to vertical, rendered on your own Mac. An hour of video exports in around twenty minutes on an M1 MacBook Air.

Every canvas

Pick YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn or Instagram and the recording is fitted, or filled and cropped, to suit.

Layouts adapt

Side by side becomes a stack on a vertical canvas. Camera-only fills instead of letterboxing.

Safe by design

The file is written aside and moved into place only when it’s complete, and Shotbox won’t export over footage the edit uses.

Everything in Export

27 tools, styles and options, all included.

Canvases

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The canvas belongs to the edit, so the same project renders for any platform.

Any
Original
Matches the recording
16:9
YouTube 16:9
1920 × 1080
16:9
X / Twitter 16:9
1600 × 900
9:16
TikTok 9:16
1080 × 1920
9:16
YouTube Shorts 9:16
1080 × 1920
9:16
Instagram Reels 9:16
1080 × 1920
1:1
Instagram Feed 1:1
1080 × 1080
4:5
Instagram Portrait 4:5
1080 × 1350
1:1
LinkedIn 1:1
1200 × 1200

One edit, every deliverable

The canvas belongs to the edit, not the footage. Change it and the same project renders for another platform, with captions keeping their proportions.

  • MP4, HEVC, ProRes or animated GIF
  • Low, Medium, High or Best quality
  • 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K; GIFs at 100, 75, 50 or 33%
  • The Mac stays awake while it exports; ⌘. cancels
From a 1080p edit
100%1920 × 1080
75%1440 × 810
50%960 × 540
33%640 × 360

Fitting the recording

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Letterbox
The default; the backdrop fills the rest
Fill the canvas
Cover the frame and crop the overflow
Screen size
From 0.4× to 3× by hand
Layouts adapt
Side by side becomes a stack on vertical; camera-only fills
Whole camera frame
Keep everything the camera saw

Formats and sizes

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MP4
H.264 video with sound
Animated GIF
Long GIFs keep their length at a lower frame rate
100%
Full resolution
75%, 50%, 33%
Smaller files for docs, chat and email

Extras that go with it

Captions as an .srt of the finished edit, and YouTube chapters ready to paste into the video’s description.

  • Long GIFs keep their length at a lower frame rate
  • Brand watermark baked into every frame
  • Nothing rendered in the cloud
Speed
M1 MacBook AirAbout 3× real time
An hour of videoAround twenty minutes
FramesSeveral drawn at once
SleepHeld off until it finishes
Northwind · Onboarding v3Exporting 68% · Cancel ⌘.
Exporting · 3.1× real time
☕ The Mac stays awake

While it exports

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About 3× real time
An hour of video in around twenty minutes on an M1 MacBook Air
Progress in the title bar
Where Export always lives
Cancel⌘.
Stop at any time
Stays awake
The Mac won’t sleep partway through
Written safely
Moved into place only when complete
Protects your footage
Won’t export over a recording or sound the edit uses

Also exports

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.srt captions
The finished edit’s captions
YouTube chapters
Copied ready to paste
.shotboxbrand
Your brand kit, to share
⌘

For software teams

Ship the hero video, the social cut and the docs GIF from one project.

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For client work

Deliver the whole list of formats the client asked for, the same afternoon.

Works well with
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Try it on your next demo.

£5.60 a month, cancel any time.