Editor

Export

Click Export, pick a quality, save the MP4. What you see in the editor preview is what ships in the file.

When the project looks the way you want, click Export in the top-right of the editor. A small dialog opens — pick a quality, give the file a name, and the render starts.

The Export dialog with quality presets, file name, and save location

What gets exported

Same as the editor preview. Whatever you see when you press play in the editor is exactly what lands in the file — every layer baked in, nothing left for the viewer to toggle.

Quality

Three presets, all H.264 MP4:

  • Social (1080p) — bitrate tuned for social uploads. Smaller file, looks great on phone screens. The default for most projects.
  • Studio (1440p) — higher bitrate, sharper detail. Right when the recording will be embedded in a docs site or autoplayed at native size.
  • Studio 4K (2160p) — full 4K. Use when the source recording was at 4K and the audience will watch on a big screen. File sizes climb fast at this tier.

Each preset rolls quality + bitrate into one choice. Lower-tier presets render faster and produce smaller files.

Watermark

Free users get a small TinyRec watermark in the corner opposite the camera bubble (or the bottom-right when there’s no camera). Lifetime users get watermark-free exports — the dialog skips the watermark entirely.

If you’ve bought Lifetime and the watermark still appears, check that you’re signed into the same account in Settings → Account.

Where the file lands

The dialog opens a save sheet — pick the folder and the filename. Defaults to your Movies folder, with the project’s title plus a timestamp so re-exports don’t overwrite each other. macOS remembers the last used folder for the next export.

Once the render completes the file appears in Finder. The dialog also offers a Show in Finder button that highlights the new file.

Render speed

The Rust export pipeline runs the render natively. On Apple Silicon a 30-second 1080p clip exports in a few seconds. 4K renders are typically 2–3× faster than the source video duration. All on-device — no upload, no cloud queue.

The dialog shows a progress bar with frames-per-second so you can see the pipeline keeping pace with the source.

What’s next

  • Style your video — wallpaper, padding, roundness, shadow, blur. The look that gets baked in.
  • Privacy and data — exports are local; the file never leaves your Mac unless you share it.
  • Pricing — Lifetime if you want watermark-free exports.