Export a short faster than you can watch it

Export is the last step of every short, and it is the one you repeat the most. A typo in a caption, a late voice-over, a new hook: each fix means another export. When you publish many shorts a week, export time adds up quickly.

CoClip uses your graphics card to shorten that wait. Here is how its export works, and what to expect on your own machine.

One export engine, three routes

CoClip exports with its own engine. It decodes your clips, composites every layer of every frame on the GPU, and hands the frames straight to an encoder. Which encoder depends on your machine, and CoClip picks it for you:

• NVIDIA GPU on Windows: frames are composited on the GPU and encoded with NVENC, NVIDIA's hardware encoder. This is the fastest route.
• Other GPUs: frames are still composited on the GPU, and a software encoder (x264 or x265) writes the file.
• No usable GPU: the same engine runs in software. It is slower, but it draws the same picture.

An NVIDIA GPU is optional. You don't change a setting or pick a different preset; CoClip takes the best route your machine supports.

NVIDIA-accelerated export is Windows-only.

The numbers, and how they were measured

We timed a real short on the NVENC route:

• Project: a 71-second short, 1080 × 1920 at 30 fps, with video, images, animated stickers, cards and text
• Export time: about 11 seconds (median of three cold runs)

That is roughly 6.5× faster than real time: the file is ready long before you could finish watching it.

Measured on the developer's machine with an RTX 5060 Ti: a 71 s short exported in ~11 s on the NVENC route. Your results will vary with hardware and project.

We share the setup on purpose. A benchmark is only useful if you know what was measured, and a different GPU, a longer video or a heavier project will give different times.

What you see is what you export

Speed only helps if the file is right the first time. Exporting twice because the preview didn't match is one of the most frustrating parts of editing.

In CoClip, preview and export follow the same rendering and colour rules. The measured difference between a preview frame and the exported frame is under 1 % of pixels. The captions, zooms and transitions you check in the preview are the ones in your file.

Export settings you'd expect

Whichever route your machine takes, you get the same export options:

Resolution and frame rate

• Resolution: 480p, 720p, 1080p, 2K or 4K
• Frame rate: 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94 or 60 fps

Codec and format

• Codec: H.264 or H.265
• Format: MP4 or MOV
• Bit rate: Lower, Recommended or Higher, plus your choice of output folder

Audio

Music ducks under the voice, and exports are normalized to −14 LUFS, so your shorts sound consistent from one video to the next.

What's in Free and Pro

GPU-accelerated export is included in both plans.

• Free: export up to 1080p in H.264, with a CoClip watermark.
• Pro: no watermark, export up to 4K, and H.265 as well as H.264, on up to 2 devices in any mix of Windows and Mac.

Pro is $20 a month or $100 a year. The pricing page compares both plans in detail.

Tips for faster exports

• Export at the size you publish. Most short-form platforms use a vertical frame, so 1080 × 1920 is a common choice. 4K takes longer to draw and to encode.
• Re-export after small fixes. A second export of the same project reuses work CoClip has already done, so it is quicker than the first.
• Let the agent do the fixes. If you connect an AI agent through CoClip's built-in MCP server, it can make the last-minute edits and check them with preview frames before you export.

Try it on your own project

Download CoClip for Windows 11 or macOS and export your next short. On a Windows PC with an NVIDIA GPU, the NVENC route is used automatically; everywhere else, the same engine gives you the same result.