# Export settings and presets

> In the Mac app, the export window starts with presets and opens every setting under **More settings**: format, encoding, size, pictures a second, quality, colours and sound.

## The presets

Each preset shows about how big your file will be. **Standard** is picked when the window opens.

| Preset | What you get |
|---|---|
| **Standard** | MP4, H.264, AAC sound, the Standard quality |
| **Smaller file** | The same, a lighter file |
| **Best** | The same, the sharpest |
| **Master for editing** | For Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve: MOV, ProRes 422 HQ, WAV sound |

All four keep your video's own size and pictures a second. If your footage was filmed in HDR, the export stays in HDR as filmed; change it in **More settings**.

## More settings

| Setting | Choices |
|---|---|
| **Format** | MP4 or MOV |
| **Encoding** | H.264 (plays everywhere), H.265 (smaller file, recent devices), H.265 10-bit (smoother colours). In MOV also ProRes 422 Proxy (smallest), ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 422, ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 4444 (with transparency). |
| **Resolution** | Your video's size or smaller: never bigger than your videos. |
| **Pictures a second** | Your video's, or fewer (24 for cinema). Never more. |
| **Quality** | Smaller file, Standard, Best, or **Your own** in Mb/s. With ProRes it is set by ProRes, which keeps the picture almost as filmed. |
| **Colours** | Normal colours (looks the same everywhere), HDR · HLG (iPhone), HDR · HDR10 (YouTube, TVs). HDR is offered only when your footage was filmed in HDR; H.264 has no HDR. |
| **Sound** | AAC (the usual, small) or WAV (the sound whole, larger). WAV goes in a MOV. |

The qualities in Mb/s, for a 1080 × 1920 video: Smaller file 4, Standard 8, Best 12. A bigger picture gets more in proportion (a 4K picture has four times as many dots), a smaller one less, never under 1 Mb/s.

> **Some of your videos are HDR, some are not?** The window says how many were filmed in HDR. The others and Montage's titles keep their normal brightness in an HDR export.

## Your own presets

1. Open **More settings** and change what you want. The preset becomes **Custom** (« Your changes · not saved yet »).
1. Press **Save as a preset**, type its name under **Name your preset**, then **Save**.
1. Next time, it is in the list. Its **⋯** button lets you **Rename** it, **Change its settings** or **Delete** it.

Your presets are kept in the app on this computer.

## Where the file goes

1. Press **Export**. The app asks where to save, starting in your **Movies** folder.
1. « Making your video » shows how far it is. You can keep working: keep Montage open until it is done.
1. « Your video is ready »: press **Show in Finder**.

## Questions

### Why can't I pick HDR?

None of the footage in this video was filmed in HDR, so the window greys it out: « Your videos were not filmed in HDR. » Montage never adds HDR that was not filmed.

### The export says one of my originals is « On the disk » or « Moved or deleted ».

The app exports from your originals at their full quality. Plug the disk back in and the export goes on by itself, or press **Find the file** and show the app where it is now.

### The export says « Your Mac is full ».

It tells you how much the video needs and how much is free. Free up some space, then press **Try again**.

### Can my presets go to another computer?

Not for now: your presets are kept in the app on the computer where you made them.