Exports & downloads
Render the finished film, or download the project's source assets — script, frames, clips, and references.
There are two different ways to get work out of Sundream, and they produce different things. Exporting renders your timeline into one finished movie. Downloading hands you the project's source files — the frames, clips, references, and script that went into it.
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| One finished movie file | Export on the Edit surface |
| The underlying assets | Download project in the project nav |
Export the finished film
On the Edit surface, Export renders everything on the timeline — shots in order, with dialogue and score — into a single MP4.
- The render happens on our side, not in your browser. Progress shows as a percentage while it runs, and you can cancel a render in progress.
- You can leave the page. The render continues, and a project can only have so many exports queued at once, so cancel one you no longer need rather than starting several.
- The timeline needs at least one shot. An export with nothing visual on the timeline is rejected before it starts.
If the queue is busy you may be asked to try again shortly. That limit is per workspace and platform-wide, so a full queue clears on its own.
Download the project's assets
The download button sits in the project nav, on the same row as Script / Board / Editor, and is available from any of the three surfaces. It gives you the project's source files as one zip.
Pick what to include — everything is selected by default, and only categories your project actually has are shown:
| Category | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Video clips | The generated clip for each shot |
| Storyboard frames | The still frame for each shot |
| Character references | Each character's reference plate, plus any images you attached |
| Location references | Each location's plate and attached images |
| Product references | Each product or prop's plate and attached images |
| Style references | The look references attached to the project |
| Script | The screenplay as plain text |
| Project data | The whole project as JSON |
The archive is named after your project and keeps that structure inside, so extracting it gives you one folder rather than a heap of loose files:
the-two-drop-routine/
clips/01-cold-open.mp4
frames/01-cold-open.png
characters/maya-chen.png
locations/bathroom-vanity.png
products/serum-bottle.png
style/style-ref-1.jpg
the-two-drop-routine-script.txt
the-two-drop-routine-project.jsonFilenames follow shot order and the names you gave your characters, locations, and products — so the export stays readable in another tool.
Script and project data
Two of the downloads are generated rather than copied:
- The script is a readable plain-text screenplay: scene headings, action, and dialogue attributed to each character. It's meant for reading, printing, or handing to someone who isn't in Sundream.
- The project data is the same story as structured JSON — scenes, shots, cast, and settings. Use it as a backup or to work with the project elsewhere. Workspace and account identifiers are stripped, so the file is safe to share.
Large projects
The archive is assembled in your browser, which means a project with many long clips holds a lot in memory at once. On a phone or a low-memory machine, download in a few passes — clips on their own, then everything else — rather than all at once.
If an individual file can't be fetched, the download still completes with everything else and tells you how many were missed. Try again for the rest; partial results are never silently dropped.