Your first video, start to finish
Open a project
From Projects, click + New project, name it, and you land in the workspace. This is one screen: a grid for your videos, and a floating bar at the bottom called the composer. That bar is where everything happens.
Add your renders
In the composer, tap the + tile in the ingredients row and pick your rendered stills, JPEG or PNG, straight from your design software. You need at least one. Most jobs work well with three to six angles: a wide establishing shot, a corner three-quarter view, and whatever angle the homeowner would actually stand at.
Two more chips sit beside your renders: Flythrough and 2D plan. Both are optional. Add a flythrough MP4 if your software exported one, and your 2D plan (PNG, PDF, or DXF) if you have it. Neither is required to make a video, but both help RenderSplash understand the space.
If you want to call out something specific, a raised spa wall, a particular material, type it into the Anything to highlight? field.
Pick your quality and light
Two pills sit above the button. Quality sets the resolution: Draft, HD, Full HD, or 4K, each showing what it costs in credits. Lighting sets the time of day: As rendered, Midday, Golden hour, Dusk, or Night. For your first attempt, leave Quality on Draft and try a look. A draft costs half what a finished video does, so there is little to lose in trying one before you commit to a finished video.
Press Make video
The round button with the play icon is Make video. Beside it, a small line tells you the cost before you press it, for example "5 credits · 95 left this month" or "10 credits · 90 left this month." Press it and the tile appears in the grid above, working through a few plain-word steps. It usually takes 2 to 4 minutes, and you can close the page and come back.
Watch it and decide
When it says Done, click the tile to open it. You will see the clip playing, with Download, Share, Make it sharper, and Delete underneath. If the angle or the light is not what you wanted, go back to the composer, change your renders, notes, or lighting, and make another draft. Once it looks right, raise Quality to HD or higher and make the version you will actually show.
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