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title: "Rendering & delivery"
description: "Render a Clip video edit to a single file: choosing resolution and format, render cost, what happens while it renders, and managing your edits."
url: https://clip.sg/docs/video-editor-export
last_updated: 2026-09-15
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# Rendering & delivery

When the edit is right, rendering turns the timeline into a single video file.

## Rendering

Open the render panel from the editor. You choose:

- **Resolution** — 720p, 1080p or 4K, depending on your plan.
- **Format** — the codec for the output file.

![The export panel](https://clip.sg/docs/images/video-editor-render.webp)

Clip shows the estimated cost before you start, based on the length of your composition and the resolution you picked — a five-second 1080p render is around twenty credits. Rendering is the only part of the video editor that costs anything; editing is free.

The maximum length of a single render depends on your plan, up to three minutes.

## While it renders

Rendering happens on Clip's servers, not in your browser. That means you can close the tab, go back to the canvas, or work on something else — it keeps going.

The panel shows the current state: submitting, waiting for a slot, or rendering, with progress.

If your organization already has renders running, yours waits in line and shows its position. Each plan allows a number of concurrent renders.

**Cancel** stops a render that hasn't finished, and refunds the credits.

## When it's done

You get a preview of the finished video, and two things to do with it:

- **Download** the file.
- **Add to canvas** — the render lands on your project canvas as a video object, alongside everything else. From there it exports, drops into a chat message, or feeds another edit.

That round trip is the point of having the editor inside Clip: generate the clips on the canvas, cut them in the editor, and put the finished film back on the canvas where the rest of the campaign lives.

## Version history

The editor keeps its own history, covering roughly the last four hours of active editing, with entries marked by why they were saved — an automatic save, or the state immediately before a restore.

**Preview** loads an earlier version so you can look at it safely. **Restore** brings it back, and takes a backup of the current state first, so restoring is itself undoable.

If you restore in another tab, this one reloads rather than quietly overwriting what you just brought back.

## Managing your edits

The **Video edits** tab in your project lists every edit:

- **Rename** them.
- **Duplicate** one to try a different cut without losing the first.
- **Delete** one — the clips it used stay in your project.
- See at a glance which renders are already on the canvas.

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**Next:** [Exporting](https://clip.sg/docs/exporting).