Export & publishing
Rendering your edited video, export history, YouTube metadata, and thumbnails.
Exporting
Click Export Video, choose format and quality, and the render runs in the background — you'll see progress through its stages: downloading assets, building video, rendering overlays, compositing, mixing audio, uploading. All exports are 1080p HD.
Re-rendering after editor changes costs only a small fraction of the original generation cost — you're paying for the render itself, not for regenerating content.
- Export History keeps previous renders available.
- Download Latest re-downloads the most recent render without re-rendering.
- Abort Render stops an in-progress export. Rendering compute is billed as it runs, so aborting charges only for what was already used — never the remainder.
YouTube metadata
The project's Metadata tab generates a complete publishing kit (about 5–15 credits, since it includes video analysis):
- Title options scored for click-through rate — pick one as the main title
- Description and tags, plus a category suggestion
- SEO analysis — primary and secondary keywords, competition, search intent
- Copy All / Quick Copy formatted for pasting straight into YouTube Studio
You can regenerate titles or refresh competitor research at any time (takes about 30–60 seconds).
Thumbnails
Thumb Lab builds thumbnails in a chat-style composer: describe what you want, attach the project for context, add reference images or a YouTube sample, and generate variants in 16:9, 9:16, or 1:1. Style presets can be saved and reused; failed generations aren't charged. It's big enough to have its own page.
Mid-roll ad timing
For monetized channels, the ad-timing generator proposes mid-roll placements at natural breaks, with three densities — Aggressive (every 1–1.5 minutes), Medium (every 2–3), Light (every 4–5) — and copyable timestamps for YouTube Studio.
VidNext adds no watermark to exports — what you render is entirely yours to publish.