Exporting a drive video

A share card is a still. A video is the drive in motion. Which video depends on what you’re making: something to post on its own, something to sit beside your own footage, or a layer to drop straight onto it in an editor. Marque renders all three from the same drive.

The three cuts

You pick the cut first, and everything else follows from it. Each cut renders separately, so you can come back later and make another one from the same drive without losing the first.

Scenic

Your route animating over the map, full screen and upright. This is the one to post on its own: a story, a group chat, anywhere a clip stands by itself.

Metrics

No map: speed, distance and g are the clip, in a smaller square that sits beside your own footage rather than filling the frame. It plays as a quick highlight by default; turn on Real-time pace and it runs at 1:1 instead, so the numbers line up with something you shot yourself.

Overlay

Your instruments on a transparent clip, made to be laid over your own footage in an editor. It isn’t a clip you watch. It’s a layer you composite, and it always plays at 1:1 so it matches the video underneath it. Because it’s the only cut whose shape has to match somebody else’s footage, it’s the only one that asks: Landscape for action-cam and dashcam footage, Portrait for a phone held upright, or Square.

Export a video

1. Open the drive, tap Share, and switch to the Video tab.
2. Pick your cut, then set anything it asks for: the shape, real-time pace, or the stretch to export.
3. Tap Create video. The clip renders on our side, so you can leave the screen and carry on using the app. A card on your lock screen follows the progress.
4. When it’s ready, Share video or Save video. It stays rendered, so you can share the same cut again later without waiting.

Choosing the stretch

A cut that plays at 1:1 - the overlay, or metrics with real-time pace on - covers a stretch of the drive rather than the whole of it. Drag either end of the window to choose which stretch: anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes. Drag from the middle to move the whole window without changing how long it is.

• A drive shorter than 10 minutes opens on the whole drive. Leave the handles alone and that’s what you get.
• A longer drive opens on the middle ten minutes, where the driving usually is. Move it wherever you like.
• Trimming a short drive down to its best ninety seconds is as much the point as slicing a long one.

The overlay, in your editor

Transparency can’t ride in an ordinary MP4, so the overlay comes back as a QuickTime .mov instead. Save it, bring it into your editor, and lay it on the track above your footage. The transparent areas let your own video through.

What it respects

The video honours the same choices as everywhere else. If you’ve turned on hide top speed, it’s left out of the clip. Routes near home are already trimmed, so the clip begins and ends a safe distance from the door. Speeds and distances follow the units you’ve set.

A virtual drive is labelled as one right in the video, so a lap can never be mistaken for a real-world drive.