Exporting Your Video

Once your edit is complete, your visual effects are composited, and your audio is mixed, you must render the project out to a single, playable video file. In ORAPHIM, this is handled entirely within the Export Workspace.

The Quick Export Menu

For immediate rendering without needing to understand advanced codecs or bitrates, ORAPHIM offers a Quick Export feature.

  1. Ensure your Timeline is active.
  2. Navigate to File > Quick Export in the top menu bar.
  3. A dialog box will appear with simple presets tailored for specific destinations:
    • H.264 Master: A high-quality, universally playable MP4 file.
    • YouTube: Optimized compression settings for uploading to YouTube.
    • Vimeo: Optimized compression settings for Vimeo.
    • ProRes / DNxHR: High-fidelity, visually lossless formats for archiving or sending to another post-house.
  4. Select a preset and click Export.
  5. Choose a destination on your hard drive and a filename, then click Save.

The rendering process will begin immediately. You will see a progress bar and an estimated time remaining.

The Export Workspace (Advanced)

If you need granular control over the render settings—such as forcing a specific bitrate, embedding closed captions, rendering individual clips instead of a single master file, or queuing up multiple timelines to render overnight—you must use the Export Workspace.

  1. Click the Export button on the top menu bar to switch workspaces.
  2. The interface will change to display the Render Settings panel on the left, your timeline in the center, and the Render Queue on the right.

Custom Render Settings

In the Render Settings panel, select Custom.

  • Format: Choose your container (e.g., MP4, QuickTime/MOV, MXF).
  • Codec: Choose your compression standard (e.g., H.264, H.265/HEVC, Apple ProRes).
  • Resolution: Ensure this matches your timeline resolution, or scale it down (e.g., render a 1080p proxy of a 4K timeline).
  • Quality: To restrict file size, change this from Automatic to Restrict to and enter a target bitrate (e.g., 10000 Kb/s for a decent 1080p web video).

Using the Render Queue

Unlike Quick Export, configuring settings in the Export workspace does not immediately start rendering.

  1. Once your settings are configured, click the Add to Render Queue button at the bottom of the left panel.
  2. The job will appear in the Render Queue panel on the right side of the screen.
  3. You can add multiple jobs to the queue. For example, you can queue a high-res ProRes master, and then change the settings to H.264 and queue a lightweight web version.
  4. When you are ready to process all jobs, click Render All at the bottom of the Render Queue.

For detailed information on the technical differences between codecs and color space tagging, refer to the Export Overview section of the reference manual.