Every format, fast.

Every canvas

Pick YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn or Instagram and the recording is fitted, or filled and cropped, to suit.

Layouts adapt

Side by side becomes a stack on a vertical canvas. Camera-only fills instead of letterboxing.

Safe by design

The file is written aside and moved into place only when it’s complete, and Shotbox won’t export over footage the edit uses.

Everything in Export

27 tools, styles and options, all included.

Canvases

9

The canvas belongs to the edit, so the same project renders for any platform.

Any

Original

Matches the recording

16:9

YouTube 16:9

1920 × 1080

16:9

X / Twitter 16:9

1600 × 900

9:16

TikTok 9:16

1080 × 1920

9:16

YouTube Shorts 9:16

1080 × 1920

9:16

Instagram Reels 9:16

1080 × 1920

1:1

Instagram Feed 1:1

1080 × 1080

4:5

Instagram Portrait 4:5

1080 × 1350

1:1

LinkedIn 1:1

1200 × 1200

One edit, every deliverable

The canvas belongs to the edit, not the footage. Change it and the same project renders for another platform, with captions keeping their proportions.

MP4, HEVC, ProRes or animated GIF
Low, Medium, High or Best quality
720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K; GIFs at 100, 75, 50 or 33%
The Mac stays awake while it exports; ⌘. cancels

From a 1080p edit

100%1920 × 1080

75%1440 × 810

50%960 × 540

33%640 × 360

Fitting the recording

5

Letterbox

The default; the backdrop fills the rest

Fill the canvas

Cover the frame and crop the overflow

Screen size

From 0.4× to 3× by hand

Layouts adapt

Side by side becomes a stack on vertical; camera-only fills

Whole camera frame

Keep everything the camera saw

Formats and sizes

4

MP4

H.264 video with sound

Animated GIF

Long GIFs keep their length at a lower frame rate

100%

Full resolution

75%, 50%, 33%

Smaller files for docs, chat and email

Extras that go with it

Captions as an .srt of the finished edit, and YouTube chapters ready to paste into the video’s description.

Long GIFs keep their length at a lower frame rate
Brand watermark baked into every frame
Nothing rendered in the cloud

Speed

M1 MacBook AirAbout 3× real time

An hour of videoAround twenty minutes

FramesSeveral drawn at once

SleepHeld off until it finishes

Northwind · Onboarding v3Exporting 68% · Cancel ⌘.

Exporting · 3.1× real time

☕ The Mac stays awake

While it exports

6

About 3× real time

An hour of video in around twenty minutes on an M1 MacBook Air

Progress in the title bar

Where Export always lives

Cancel⌘.

Stop at any time

Stays awake

The Mac won’t sleep partway through

Written safely

Moved into place only when complete

Protects your footage

Won’t export over a recording or sound the edit uses

Also exports

3

.srt captions

The finished edit’s captions

YouTube chapters

Copied ready to paste

.shotboxbrand

Your brand kit, to share

⌘

For software teams

Ship the hero video, the social cut and the docs GIF from one project.

✦

For client work

Deliver the whole list of formats the client asked for, the same afternoon.

Works well with

Studio editorMulti-track timeline, titles, transitionsLearn more →Captions & transcriptCaptions on-device; edit by deleting textLearn more →Brand kitLogo, colours and font for every clientLearn more →

Every format, fast.

Every canvas

Layouts adapt

Safe by design

27 tools, styles and options, all included.

Canvases

One edit, every deliverable

Fitting the recording

Formats and sizes

Extras that go with it

While it exports

Also exports

For software teams

For client work

Try it on your next demo.