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Time-lapse and music
Export a replay of your painting taking shape, framed square, 4:5 or 9:16 for sharing, with music scored from the way you painted it.
- Free
- Time-lapses of any size, length and frame rate, framed square, 4:5 or 9:16, with music scored from the replay in all 21 styles, and a small Made with Doodly Doodle mark in the corner.
- Plus
- Time-lapses without the mark.
A time-lapse replays your painting stroke by stroke, in the order you painted it. Paint a few strokes.
A time-lapse replays your painting stroke by stroke, in the order you painted it. Paint a few strokes.
Tap Share, then Export, then Format. Time-lapse is one of the formats.
Tap Actions, then Export, then Format. Time-lapse is one of the formats.
Click Share, then Export, then Format. Time-lapse is one of the formats.
Choose Time-lapse. Frame, beside the format, crops it for social video, and the Music section adds music under the replay.
Choose Time-lapse. Frame, beside the format, crops it for social video, and the Music section adds music under the replay.
Choose Frame, then 9:16 vertical, for a 1080 by 1920 centre crop, the shape of video on a phone. The size choice goes away, since a framed video is always that size.
Choose Frame, then 9:16 vertical, for a 1080 by 1920 centre crop, the shape of video on a phone. The size choice goes away, since a framed video is always that size.
Turn on Add music scored from the replay. The score follows the order and pace of your strokes, in a style and mood you choose. Tap Style.
Turn on Add music scored from the replay. The score follows the order and pace of your strokes, in a style and mood you choose. Tap Style.
Turn on Add music scored from the replay. The score follows the order and pace of your strokes, in a style and mood you choose. Click Style.
Choose a style, here Meadow Walk, with its harp. Then tap Mood, which nudges the pace, tone and space of the music.
Choose a style, here Meadow Walk, with its harp. Then tap Mood, which nudges the pace, tone and space of the music.
Choose a style, here Meadow Walk, with its harp. Then click Mood, which nudges the pace, tone and space of the music.
Choose Calm. Preview composes the score for this painting and plays it, and How painting shapes music explains what the painting steers.
Choose Calm. Preview composes the score for this painting and plays it, and How painting shapes music explains what the painting steers.
Under Timing, set how long the time-lapse runs and its frame rate. Long pauses are shortened, and the finished painting holds at the end. Then tap Export.
Under Timing, set how long the time-lapse runs and its frame rate. Long pauses are shortened, and the finished painting holds at the end. Then tap Export.
Under Timing, set how long the time-lapse runs and its frame rate. Long pauses are shortened, and the finished painting holds at the end. Then click Export.
Time-lapse
Share → Export… → Format → Time-lapse exports an MP4 video of the painting being made: stroke by stroke, in the order it was painted, with wet paint spreading and drying as it did. Pauses are shortened, and the finished painting holds at the end. Share and export covers the Export sheet as a whole.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Longest edge | The video's size in pixels. Hidden when a frame is chosen. |
| Render detail | Output detail renders dry paint at the chosen size; Canvas detail uses the faster painting caches, for large layered paintings. |
| Add music scored from the replay 2 | Puts a score under the video, composed from the replay. |
| Frame 1 | The painting's shape, or a centre crop at 1080 wide: 1:1 square (1080 × 1080), 4:5 portrait (1080 × 1350) or 9:16 vertical (1080 × 1920). Every video format has it. |
| Duration in seconds | How long the time-lapse runs, up to 10 minutes. A long time-lapse of a large painting takes a while to render: the sheet shows progress and can be cancelled. |
| Frames per second | 12, 24, 30, 50 or 60. |
Music under the replay
With Add music scored from the replay on, the Music section offers:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Style | The instruments and arrangement, from Sketchbook's upright piano and dusty beat to Open Water's slow harp. The line under it describes the style. |
| Mood | From the painting lets the painting's colours guide the harmony. Calm, Hopeful, Wistful, Dreamy, Playful, Mysterious and Adventurous each steer the pace, tone, note lengths and space. |
| How painting shapes music | What the painting and your strokes change in the music. |
| Preview | Composes the score for this painting and plays it. Stop preview stops it. |
A time-lapse score follows the recorded sequence of strokes. Each painting has its own score: a style and mood always sound the same for that painting, so you can go back to one you liked. The choice is saved with the painting, and it's the same choice as Settings → Sound and the Soundtrack export use.
The mark
On Free, a time-lapse carries a small Made with Doodly Doodle mark in its bottom-right corner, as every Free export does: see Share and export. A soundtrack has none. Everything else here, music in every style included, works in Free.
Plus: Time-lapses without the mark. Compare Free and Plus.
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