Editing Video editing software (section)

===Exporting===

Since video editors represent a project with a [[file format]] specific to the program, one needs to export the video file in order to publish it.

Once a project is complete, the editor can then [[Import and export of data|export]] to movies in a variety of formats in a context that may range from broadcast tape formats to [[Video coding format|compressed video file]]s for web publishing (such as on an [[online video platform]] or [[personal website]]), [[optical media]], or saved to mobile devices.

To facilitate editing, source video typically has a higher resolution than the desired output. Therefore, higher resolution video needs to be [[image scaling|downscaled]] during exporting, or after exporting in a process known as [[transcoding#Re-encoding/recoding|transsizing]].