> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mago.studio/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Render video # Render Video Workspace [← User Guide](/guide/overview) · [Workspaces](/guide/overview#the-five-workspaces) · [Next: Modify Frame →](/guide/workspaces/modify-frame) *** Render Video is the main workspace for video-to-video generation. Most production work happens here. Render Video workspace, full layout. ## Layout * **Left panel** — Settings tab and Render Info tab. * **Center** — viewport showing the active source or render. * **Right** — vertical [timeline](/guide/timeline-and-tracks): source track at the top, render tracks stacked below. ## Source video selector At the top of the Settings panel — a dropdown of all videos in the current shot. By default the original source is selected. **Any render in the shot can be used as a source for further renders**, which is the basis of the [multi-pass workflow](/guide/workflows-recipes#recipe-multi-pass-pipeline). ## Presets Quick-start configurations that set a model and a baseline of settings for a use case: * **Style Transfer** — Mago Style Transfer with defaults for restyling acted footage. * **Inpainting** — Mago Inpaint with defaults for editing specific parts of a video. More presets appear over time in the Presets dropdown. ## Model selector The single most important setting — the chosen model determines what the rest of the panel exposes. See the [Model catalog](/models/overview) and the [decision tree](/models/overview#decision-tree). ## Settings panel structure Most Render Video models share a similar layout, though specifics vary. ### Basic tab * **Style or first frame** — a frame that anchors the style or beginning of the render: a modified frame, an uploaded image, or a keyframe at a specific frame number. Some models accept a looser *reference frame* instead. * **Prompt** — describes the desired result (Mago) or instructs the model (closed-source). See [Prompting](/guide/prompting-guide). * **Auto Prompt** — generates a prompt from a description of the source and the reference frame. **Regenerate** or **Use Prompt**. Adapts to scene context (e.g. drops human terms for a nature scene). * **Negative prompt** — excludes unwanted content. Common: *low quality, NSFW, extra faces, deformed.* * **ControlNets** (Mago Transform only) — depth, pose, softedge (beta), depth+pose, normal map (beta). See [Mago Transform → ControlNets](/models/mago-video-models#controlnets-for-mago-transform). ### Advanced tab | Setting | What it does | | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Output size** | Longest side of the output. Default 1280. Higher costs more and is slower. | | **Steps** | Inference depth. More steps = sharper, more detailed, slower, costlier. | | **Interpolation** | Renders every other frame and interpolates. Cheaper/faster but may miss fine detail. | | **Image sequence export** | PNG or EXR 16-bit. EXR is for [VFX pipelines](/guide/export-and-compositing#exr-for-vfx-pipelines) (Mago Transform & Style Transfer). | | **Prompt influence (CFG)** | How closely the model follows the prompt. | | **Color consistency** | Controls color stability across frames. | | **Seed** | Same seed + same settings = same output. Useful for reproducibility. | | **Shift / low step accelerator** | Trades fewer steps for slight color drift; speeds up exploration. | ### Context settings (Mago models, long renders) Long renders are split into chunks; these control the chunking. | Setting | Default | Notes | | ---------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Context size** | 150 | Frames per chunk. | | **Context overlap** | — | Frames overlapping between chunks. Lower for high movement, higher for static/slow. | | **Start frame buffer** | 1 | Warm-up frames at the start to prevent flicker. | | **Dynamic reference** | On | Regenerates a reference between chunks. On by default for high-movement video; disable for very static shots needing maximum consistency. | ## Generate buttons Two buttons at the bottom of the Settings panel: * **Generate (with frame range)** — renders only the [range](/guide/timeline-and-tracks#range-selector) selected on the timeline. Shows credit cost and frame numbers. * **Generate full clip** — renders the entire source video. Shows cost. > **🧪 Workflow** — Always test on an 80–150 frame range before committing to a full-clip render. Lock in the model, prompt, and settings first. *** [← User Guide](/guide/overview) · [Workspaces](/guide/overview#the-five-workspaces) · [Next: Modify Frame →](/guide/workspaces/modify-frame)