Rendering turns your scenes and edits into one video file with your song on it. Rendering and exporting are both free, so you can run them as often as you need.
Render
- Choose Assemble in the Scenes header, or on the steps at the top. The button in the header is there once one scene has a clip, and the step once every scene has one. The dialog tells you what any empty scene will do.
- Ready to assemble? shows what goes in:
- Scenes, such as 12 of 12 ready
- Media, the number of takes and AI clips
- Est. runtime
- Titles, if scenes have overlays
- Intro title card, if you added one
- SongPilot end card, 3 seconds, on every render
- If no scene has text yet, you can tick Text on first scene to put artist and song names over the first clip for as long as you choose.
- Choose Start render. It’s disabled until at least one scene is ready.
You see Assembling your music video with its stages. Rendering takes a few minutes, and longer for more scenes. You can leave the page: the banner reads Rendering your video when you return, and you get a Your video is ready notification either way.
When it finishes, Your music video is ready plays it, and Your final cut is ready stays on the project page with Watch, Download and Post.
Rendering from a campaign slot works the same way, and the cut goes onto that slot. See campaign review and posting.
Render again after changes
Changing a scene doesn’t touch the finished video. The banner changes to Your video is out of date, with how many scenes changed, and offers Re-assemble and Watch. If the song’s audio has changed length since the cut was made, the banner says that instead, and rendering again fixes it.
Re-assemble rebuilds from your scenes as they are now, and keeps your edits for scenes that didn’t change. The new render replaces the project’s final cut.
Versions
Video edits made with the Visual Director are kept as versions in the Edit panel. To go back to an earlier edit, select it and choose Render video. See assemble and edit.
Storyboard versions are separate. They hold the scene list, and they’re restored from the project tools menu. See storyboards.
Export other shapes
Export pack reframes your final cut into 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9. It’s free.
- Open the project tools menu, the three dots at the top right of the studio.
- Under Export, choose Export pack. It only appears once a final cut exists.
- You see Exporting aspect ratios… You can leave; each one saves by itself.
Finished versions appear in the same menu by their shape. Choosing one opens it in a new tab. An export is made from the final cut as it stood, so run Export pack again after a re-render.
Download or share
Download saves the final cut as an MP4 named after the project. On a phone or a device that supports it, Share opens your device’s share sheet, which reaches apps like Instagram and TikTok directly.
The final cut you download carries SongPilot’s end card.
Post to your accounts
Post opens Post your video, and no campaign is needed.
- Tick your Accounts. If none are listed, connect one first; see plan social content.
- Write a Caption.
- Under When, choose Now or Later with a Post time.
- Choose Post now or Schedule.
Each account posts on its own, and each shows its status. If one fails you can Try again. You can close the panel while it runs, as posting carries on.
TikTok has its own settings for who can see the video and what viewers may do. It also gets a version without the SongPilot watermark, and you see that version before posting.
The Library
Videos then Library holds everything: filter by All, Final cuts, Exports or Takes & clips. Open Preview to play or download. Delete removes the file permanently, and you confirm first.
A deleted project leaves its files here.
When a render fails
In Assembly failed, choose Try again. From a Video render failed notification, open the project and choose Assemble again. Rendering is free, so retrying costs nothing. Check that your scenes have clips first. If it keeps failing, see fix video problems.
