Export

The Export panel is where you render your graded timeline out of Colourlab Ai 4. Rendering is fully GPU-accelerated and very fast — pressing Export and getting a finished file back is one of the most satisfying moments in the application.

You reach the Export panel from the Export button in the top bar of the Color tab.

Private beta scope. During private beta, the Export panel is the only way to get your graded clips out of Colourlab Ai 4. More export targets — DaVinci, OTIO, and Premiere — are on the roadmap and will land during the beta program.

The three export modes

At the top of the Export panel you pick what you're rendering out:

• Export video — render the timeline (or its individual clips) as graded video files.
• Export still images — export the current frame as a still image.
• Export LUTs — export the current frame's grade as a LUT.

The settings below the selector change to suit whichever mode you're in.

Video export

The full video render. Settings:

Output format

Pick a codec. The current options are standard Apple formats:

• ProRes 422
• ProRes 422 HQ
• H.264

Output size

Either keep the original canvas size (matches your project's Canvas resolution from Settings) or resize on output to a different resolution.

Frame rate

We recommend leaving frame rate on Source. Don't re-time the timeline at export. Use the project's frame rate as set in Settings and let the export pass it through unchanged.

Output structure

Choose how the timeline is written:

• All timeline as one clip — a single rendered file that contains the entire timeline. Use this when you want a finished deliverable.
• Render each clip individually — one rendered file per clip on the timeline. Useful when you want to go back into your online / conform system and keep the cut intact with each clip graded separately.

Audio

Decide whether audio is preserved in the output or stripped.

File naming

• Auto — Colourlab Ai 4 names the file(s) for you.
• Manual — type your own name.

Destination

Click the folder icon to choose where the exported files land on disk.

Still images export

The same panel, but rendering the current frame as a single still image instead of a video. Choose your image format:

• PNG
• JPEG
• TIFF

The export writes whatever frame the viewer is parked on — fast and direct when you need a still from the grade.

LUT export

Render the current frame's grade as a LUT that can be loaded into other applications. Same pattern as stills: park the playhead on the frame you want to capture, hit Export, and Colourlab Ai 4 writes out the LUT.

This is the simplest path to taking the grade out of Colourlab Ai 4 and applying it elsewhere — a one-shot creative pass-through until the deeper DaVinci, OTIO, and Premiere exports arrive.