Quality or Ultra: choosing a cloud video mode
In Create a video, cloud rendering offers two modes: Quality, selected by default, and Ultra. The Fast mode is no longer shown. The app shows the price of each clip before you render.
The i next to the choice sums it up: Quality is the lane that also runs on your graphics card; Ultra is the best quality, the lane of references (up to 30 per shot) and of extension. Explicit terms do not go through in Ultra.
1. Quality, the everyday mode
In 480p, 720p or 1080p, with or without sound, with an automatic duration or a fixed one of 5, 10 or 20 seconds. On Windows, it can also render on your own NVIDIA graphics card (see Create a video). It is the mode to iterate on a scene, and for most of the clips you keep.
2. Ultra, the finest render
The finest render, online only: in 480p, 720p or 1080p, from 4 to 30 seconds at 24 frames per second (10 seconds in 480p when you switch to Ultra). The price depends on the duration and the resolution, sound included, and shows before you render.
- In Ultra, each character's voice serves as a timbre reference: the lines of the scene are spoken with a tone close to the character's, but it is not the exact voice of its profile.
- Up to 30 references per shot, styles and motions, and the extension of a shot forward or backward (see Create a video). There is no seed nor strength to set. In Quality, motions, styles and outfits are greyed out in Add reference, marked Ultra only, with Switch to Ultra.
- The file is an MP4 by default, as the engine delivers it; the MOV option, under the sound setting, gives the file exactly as rendered, with 4:4:4 images and uncompressed sound, for editing.
- A render that is already computing can no longer be cancelled: it is delivered and billed.
3. When to pick which
Use Quality to try a scene, a framing or a line of dialogue. Keep Ultra for the clip that has to look its best.
4. Changing modes
The mode buttons sit in the Create a video generator, under the scene text. In a project, the first shot rendered sets the mode of the project.
See Cloud video for how cloud rendering and credits work overall.