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Exports are only for Pro and Growth users.
Arcades can be exported as GIFs and videos! These are perfect for use in email and social media.
Arcades work best as interactive demos, so users can engage directly with your product. If you're exporting a long Arcade to a video or GIF, it may be better to use video-specific software.
Click on the Share button and select how you'd like to share. You'll see options for video and GIF downloads, Twitter, and website embeds. You'll have the ability to choose the resolution and frame rate for your export. We suggest different settings for emails, social media, and presentations, but you can also customize the settings you need.
While mp4 videos are generally the best option for generating longer, higher resolution, audio-supporting exports, GIFs are ideal for quicker, more concise short-form sharing.
In order to get the most out of your Arcades-turned-GIFs, we recommend the following:
Tip 1: Keep your Arcades short and sweet...and full of movement! As GIFs are often shared via email, socials, and messaging apps, it's important to keep file size as low as possible. Shorter Arcades help achieve this, while Arcades that have more elements of motion (think: pan and zoom, quick videos, etc) help you make the most of the bytes used.
Tip 2: Avoid recording Arcades at a much higher resolution than the ultimate export resolution. The larger the difference between the two, the more noticeable the quality loss will be between the original Arcade assets and the exported GIF.
Yes. Arcade are capped at 100 steps / 59 minutes of export time.
Some sites, like LinkedIn and HubSpot, have file size restrictions. Check the upload restrictions for the particular site and make sure the file you downloaded from Arcade matches those restrictions. LinkedIn's requirements are here and HubSpots's are here.
To limit the file size, try limiting the number of steps in your Arcade. In general, the shorter the Arcade, the more powerful it is for the viewer.
Closed captioning is not currently included in the exported video or GIF files. However, most video platforms, like YouTube, will automatically generate closed captioning and subtitle support for Arcade videos. In the future, we may support automatically including closed-captioning in our video exports.
