Recording and Exporting Your Video
Resolution presets, aspect ratios, supersampling, bitrate and cloud rendering. Everything in the Video tab.
In This Tutorial
The Video Tab
Recording lives in the Video tab under Local Studio Recorder. Picking a resolution preset automatically tunes bitrate, frame rate and encoding mode for you, so a first export needs nothing beyond a resolution and an aspect ratio. Advanced Recording holds the same settings if you need to override them, and the panel says as much at the top. Sync Simulation restarts the run when capture begins so your clip starts at the beginning of the simulation rather than wherever it happened to be.
- •Turn on Sync Simulation for any clip you plan to publish. It is the difference between a deliberate start and a random one.
Resolution
There are four presets. 720p and 1080p are available on every plan including Starter Studio. 1440p, listed as 2K, and 4K require Studio Elite. Resolution is a height budget only, it does not set the shape of the frame: the aspect ratio does that. Each preset carries a recommended bitrate, roughly 8 Mbps at 720p, 16 at 1080p, 28 at 2K and 50 at 4K, applied automatically when you select it. For short-form social video, 1080p is the right choice, since platforms re-encode anyway and 4K mainly costs you render time.
- →720p (HD): height 720, ~8 Mbps, all plans
- →1080p (Full HD): height 1080, ~16 Mbps, all plans
- →1440p (2K): height 1440, ~28 Mbps, Studio Elite
- →4K (Ultra HD): height 2160, ~50 Mbps, Studio Elite
Aspect Ratio
Five options set the frame shape. 16:9 is landscape. 9:16 is vertical, which is what short-form platforms want. 1:1 is square. 4:3 is classic. Custom Region lets you draw a rectangle on the canvas and exports at that rectangle proportions, never stretched. Region mode is how you crop tightly around the arena when the simulation does not fill the frame. Always Show Recording Area keeps the dashed guide visible while you work, and that guide is a screen-only overlay that never appears in the exported file.
- →16:9 Landscape, 9:16 Vertical, 1:1 Square, 4:3 Classic, Custom Region
- →Crop Width / Height: 64 to 4000 px | X and Y Offset: -4000 to +4000 px
Format and Bitrate
Social MP4 Mode exports MP4, which is what Instagram and TikTok want. Turning it off gives WEBM, which is smaller and faster to produce in the browser, and is the better choice for a draft you are going to re-record anyway. Bitrate accepts 0.1 to 80 Mbps and is set automatically by the resolution preset, so only change it if you have a specific file size constraint. Raising bitrate above the preset value has little visible effect on this kind of content, since flat colour fields compress efficiently.
- →Social MP4 Mode on: MP4. Off: WEBM
- →Bitrate: 0.1 to 80 Mbps (auto-set by resolution preset)
Supersampling and Auto-Quality
Supersampling renders the simulation above the export size and scales it down, which sharpens edges. 1x records at the export resolution and gives the smoothest, highest frame rate capture. 2x is the sharpest and the heaviest. Adaptive Auto-Quality lowers supersampling during recording if your machine cannot hold the target frame rate and raises it back when it can, flooring at 1x and never upscaling. Leave it on unless you are certain of your hardware, because a dropped-frame export cannot be fixed afterwards.
- •If exports stutter, drop to 1x supersampling before you drop the resolution. Sharpness costs less than smoothness.
Length, HUD and Branding
Auto-Stop Capture ends the recording automatically at a Stop After value from 1 to 600 seconds. Turn it off to record until you press Finish and Export. Show HUD in Recording controls whether on-screen counters appear in the exported file, and turning it off gives a clean cinematic frame. Show Branding toggles the studio watermark, and hiding it requires a Pro plan.
- →Stop After: 1 to 600 seconds
- →Watermark removal requires a Pro plan
Cloud Rendering
Cloud Services offloads the render to our servers instead of your machine, which frees your browser and avoids frame drops on weaker hardware. One important limit: cloud renders always output at 1080p. Your resolution selection, including 2K and 4K, applies to local recording only. If you need a 4K file you have to record it locally. Completed cloud renders appear in a job list where you can download or delete each one.
- •Use cloud rendering for long clips and local recording when you specifically need above 1080p.
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