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Download and export finished media

Exporting from Nodespell means saving a result file to your computer. You download a node’s result, a file in a viewer, or an Asset from the Asset Manager, and Nodespell saves the stored file at its full resolution, not a preview. To produce a new delivery file, such as an edit, a different container or a smaller size, you render a Timeline or run a video node first.

Where Control What you get
A node on the graph Right-click → Download, or Download N assets for several The current result of each selected node
The node’s preview Download button on the preview toolbar The result shown on the node
Full-screen image viewer Save image The image you are viewing
Full-screen video viewer Download video The video you are viewing
Full-screen audio viewer Download audio The audio you are viewing
Text viewer Download text The text result
3D viewer Download Model The model file
Asset Manager Right-click → Download Asset, or Download N assets for a selection The original uploaded or generated file
Timeline editor Render → Download The last Timeline render

When you download several files at once, Nodespell starts one download per file. It does not bundle them into a ZIP. If some fail, a notice says how many could not be downloaded.

  1. Select one or more nodes in Graph. Choose the take you want first if a node has several.
  2. Right-click a selected node and choose Download.
  3. Your browser saves each file. Nodespell names files from the Project, the node and the time the result was made.

Prompt nodes have no file to download. Asset nodes download the file they point to.

Yes. Downloads use the stored result or the original Asset file, not the viewer’s preview or thumbnail. Lowering preview quality in a viewer or in the Timeline changes only playback, not the downloaded file. An image result keeps its stored format, for example PNG or, for HDR results, EXR.

The Timeline is where you set export options for video. Select Render in the Timeline top bar. The render settings are:

Setting Options Default
Preset Custom, Timeline, Preview (720p WEBM), MP4, High, Social (1080p MP4) Custom
Range Whole timeline or Range (In/Out points) Whole timeline
Name File name for the download timeline-export
Container WEBM or MP4 WEBM
Bitrate (video) 500 to 50,000 kb/s 8,000 kb/s
Resolution Timeline resolution or Custom (16 to 16,384 px) Timeline resolution
Frame rate Timeline rate or Custom (1 to 120 fps) Timeline rate
Include audio On (Timeline audio mix) or off (Video only) On
Codec (audio) Auto for container, AAC, Opus Auto
Bitrate (audio) 16 to 512 kb/s 128 kb/s
Channels Stereo or Mono Stereo

Track mute, solo, gain, clip gain, fades and track effects are included in the mix. MP4 is available only when your browser can encode H.264 and AAC; otherwise it shows MP4 (unsupported).

After rendering, select Download in the same popover. The render is made and stored in your browser on this device, and it also feeds the Timeline node’s Video output.

Change format, size or frame rate without the Timeline

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For a single clip, add a node instead of opening the Timeline:

  • Transcode Video writes MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, with quality, bitrate or approximate file-size control, a maximum size and maximum frame rate, and audio options.
  • Resize Video outputs an MP4 at a new frame size.
  • Retime Video and Trim Video change duration.

Run the node, then download its result. See Video editing for every option.

In a compositor’s Colour settings, Result chooses what it produces: Review · as viewed (PNG), Review · as viewed (video), Master · linear EXR, or HDR review · 10-bit WebM PQ where the device supports it. Export EXR sequence… writes frames to a folder you choose and needs desktop Chrome or Edge. See Color management.

In the Asset Manager, right-click a supported 3D Asset and choose Export 3D Model (or Export DCC Format), then Export Alembic (.abc).

No. Nodespell exports results, not Projects. Assemble the shots you want in a Timeline and render it.

WEBM is the default container. Choose the MP4 or Social preset, or set Container to MP4, if your browser supports MP4 encoding.

Can I download several results as one ZIP?

Section titled “Can I download several results as one ZIP?”

No. Multi-select downloads start one download per file.

No. Downloads are the stored files themselves; Nodespell does not resize or re-encode them on download.