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Render Video Workspace

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Render Video is the main workspace for video-to-video generation. Most production work happens here. Render Video workspace, full layout.

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Layout

  • Left panel — Settings tab and Render Info tab.
  • Center — viewport showing the active source or render.
  • Right — vertical timeline: source track at the top, render tracks stacked below.

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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.

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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.

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Model selector

The single most important setting — the chosen model determines what the rest of the panel exposes. See the Model catalog and the decision tree.

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Settings panel structure

Most Render Video models share a similar layout, though specifics vary.

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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.
  • 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.

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Advanced tab

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Context settings (Mago models, long renders)

Long renders are split into chunks; these control the chunking.

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Generate buttons

Two buttons at the bottom of the Settings panel:
  • Generate (with frame range) — renders only the range 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.
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