A GreenLight Motion film is rendered and exported only after you approve its preview, with the voice-over and sound effects in place. What the agent delivers is set by the brief’s Deliver choices: a rendered video, a Video Editor project, an After Effects project, or any mix of the three. You can always ask for another one later. Every render and export carries the changes you made in the preview.
Rendering the film
On a board, the agent marks the pipeline’s Render & export step as running and the app renders the film with its own HTML render engine, so there is nothing to install. The film is recorded frame by frame on the page clock, so every frame is exact and every render of the same film is identical. The voice-over and sound effects are mixed in (see Voice-Over and Sound Effects).
The rendered video is placed on the board in the pipeline’s Final film step, named after the film with “· render”, and the Render & export step lists it with every export.
| Format | What it is for |
|---|---|
| MP4 | Plays anywhere. The default. |
| WebM with alpha | Transparent, for the web. |
| ProRes 4444 | Transparent, for editing. |
Ask the agent for a transparent format when you want to place the film over something else; transparent renders leave the film’s background out. Every render is tagged BT.709, so colours look the same in players and editors.
Motion blur — ask the agent to render with motion blur for smoother fast moves. It records several moments per frame and blends them, so the render takes several times longer.
Video Editor project (GLEA)
The Video Editor export creates a project on the board, named after the film, that you open in the Video Editor like any other project:
- every scene is an HTML clip at its time on the Scenes channel, and looks exactly like the preview. Scenes joined by a fade sit on a second channel, Scenes (fades), with an opacity ramp over the overlap;
- the voice-over is on a Voice-over channel and the sound effects are on Sound effects channels;
- the project carries the film’s background and its colours as colour tokens.
In the editor, the HTML clips play on the editor’s clock and render with the rest of the timeline. Double-click a clip to edit its page’s code, and add the editor’s own layers, effects and transitions around it. The film’s font is loaded by name. To keep working on the project with an agent, see Agent-Driven Editing with GLEA.
If the film has a library gallery or carousel scene and you asked for a Video Editor project, the agent may offer to replace that scene with a MotionFast gallery template, which has styles and options you tune in the editor and takes your pictures. Say yes and it puts the template in the project at that scene’s time; say no and the project stays as it is.
After Effects package
For After Effects, the export is a package that an agent uses to rebuild the film in After Effects as a native, editable project: a comp per scene inside a main comp, shape and text layers, and keyframes that match the scenes’ timing and easing, with the pictures and the audio on their own layers.
The package holds a task description for the agent, every scene as a self-contained page (the reference for layout, colour, type and motion), reference stills of every scene (and the rendered film when there is one), the pictures, the voice-over and the sound effects, and GreenLight Dash’s safe script runner for After Effects. On a board, the package is saved as a .zip in the film’s board folder.
- After Effects must be installed and open while the agent builds the project. The build runs on macOS.
- The agent never runs anything in your After Effects without asking first, because a dialog in After Effects would block your work.
- After Effects only uses installed fonts, so install the film’s font (from Google Fonts) before you open After Effects; the agent tells you which one.
The agent that exported the package can build it for you, or you can hand the package to another agent. See After Effects for how the app works with After Effects.
The GL Motion library in the Presets tab
The 275 library scenes are also available in the Video Editor without making a film. Open the Presets tab: after your own presets comes the GL Motion library.
- Search and the category chips in one sideways-scrolling row: All, Favourite, My presets, then the library’s categories, such as Controls, Data, AI, Commerce, Promos & countdowns, Social, Text & titles, Carousels & sliders, Galleries & stacks and Product showcase.
- Light / Dark and the accent colours restyle every card: five accents, plus your project’s colour tokens after a divider.
- Point at a card to play its animation. The star adds it to Favourite.
- Click a card, then HTML clip: the scene goes onto the timeline at the playhead as a transparent HTML clip, exactly as it plays in the card.
See Sequences and Presets for your own presets in the same tab.
Where to go next
- HTML Clips — how the exported scenes behave in the Video Editor
- After Effects — the app’s After Effects tools
- Agent-Driven Editing with GLEA — keep editing the exported project with an agent
- The Film Pipeline on Your Board — where the render and exports land
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