What export formats are available?

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Hi. This is my first post as I’m keen to explore other design tools for creating interactive/animated content.

What local export formats are available? Am I right in thinking animated GIF and MP4 only? The latter doesn’t contain audio but that can be added with Camtasia/FCP etc? Any other formats that don’t require hosting? Only asking as I create a lot of media content that works only with image and video formats (uploadable and embeddable via YT, Vimeo and other platforms).

Thanks

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Hey Simon,

In terms of video you can export as:

  • Mp4 video using the h264 codec
  • ProRes 422 (higher res video)

And at different frames per second:

And yes — at this time you will need to splice together your video and audio later when exporting video from Hype. Alternatively, you can record a screencast and capture both audio and video all at once using Camtasia. It looks like Camtasia doesn’t yet record at 60fps, but Screenflow does.

Happy to answer any other Qs.

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That’s useful, thanks Daniel.

Most of my audio tracks are voiceovers so it’s normally just a case of syncing to the vid and it’s job done.

Are both video formats restricted to pure linear video or can they retain any interactive elements in any way?

Thanks

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hi Simon,

if you export as html you can use interactivity along with your video.

so you’ll need a browser or webview within an app to handle interactions.

a pure videoformat is not interactive.

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Cool, that sounds in line with my expectations.

Will have a play with the trial in a few days.

Thanks

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We list all the formats Hype exports on the compare page (under “output formats”).

The standard export is File > Export as HTML5 >> Folder… which will give a .html file and folder of assets. Hype is very much a tool for creating interactive pieces (in fact the video export was added much later in Hype’s life!).