Render Formats

Render Types

Onset Engine supports four distinct render types. These formats adjust how your clips are arranged, cropped, and presented. The underlying implementation for these modes can be found in editor.py.

1. Standard Render

This is the default 16:9 output. It creates a full-length video that is strictly beat-synced to your selected music track. It fully utilizes the visual style preset you have chosen, applying the appropriate pacing, VFX, transitions, and color grading.

2. Teaser

The Teaser format is a shorter cut designed for social media.

• Drop Detection: It automatically finds the audio “drop” and starts the edit from that high-energy point.
• Pacing Boost: It applies an automatic 1.5x pacing multiplier to increase the tempo of cuts.
• File Naming: The rendered file automatically receives a _TEASER suffix.

3. Highlights

The Highlights format ignores standard narrative flow and simply collects the absolute best clips from your library or collection.

• Clip Selection: It selects the top N clips based on their composite score (a blend of motion score and semantic driver alignment, if a driver is active).
• Assembly: The chosen clips are beat-synced to the music and auto-shuffled for variety.
• File Naming: The rendered file automatically receives a _HIGHLIGHTS suffix.

4. Triptych

The Triptych format produces a unique 3-panel side-by-side layout within a standard 16:9 frame.

• Layout: The engine groups the EDL (Edit Decision List) clips into sets of three.
• Cropping: Each clip is cropped into a 9:16 vertical slice (640x1080) and positioned side-by-side using face-aware vertical positioning to ensure subjects remain in frame.
• Compositing: The three panels are composited together into a final 1920x1080 video.