Exporting From Poko Motion: 4K, Vertical Reels, and Multi-Core Rendering Explained

Most AI video tools give you one render button and one output. You get an MP4, at whatever size the tool decided, and that's the end of the conversation.

Poko Motion's export panel is a real settings panel. It has four resolution presets, three quality tiers, frame rate options, a speed dial, two file formats, and a slider that controls how many CPU cores actually render your video.

Here's what every setting does, and when it's worth touching.

Resolution: four presets, not one

The export panel offers four fixed sizes:

• 4K - 3840×2160
• 1080p - 1920×1080
• Square - 1080×1080
• Reel 9:16 - 1080×1920, built for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and Shorts

Poko also detects your composition's native size automatically and marks the matching preset with a small "auto" label, so you know at a glance which one your video was actually built for.

You're not locked to that size, though. If you pick a different resolution than the composition's native dimensions, a warning appears explaining that the output may stretch or crop. That's useful information, not a blocker - sometimes you want the same video reframed as a square post and a vertical Reel from one build.

Quality and frame rate

Quality has three tiers: draft, standard, and high. Draft is fast and rough, meant for checking a cut, not for publishing. Standard is the sensible default for most output. High is for final delivery when file size matters less than fidelity.

Frame rate sits alongside it at 24, 30, or 60fps. 24 reads as more cinematic, 30 is the standard for most social and web video, and 60 is worth it mainly for fast motion that needs to stay smooth.

If you just want a quick look at a cut, there's a Quick Draft button that skips all of this and exports immediately at draft quality and 24fps. It's a one-click sanity check, not your final export.

Speed: 0.5x to 2x

A speed dial runs from 0.5x up to 2x, in six steps. This isn't a gimmick - it changes how long the final video actually is.

A couple of real uses:

• Slow a shot to 0.5x when a UI detail needs more time to read
• Push a full build to 1.5x or 2x to compress a 45-second motion ad into a punchier 20-second cut for a Reel, without rebuilding the timeline

Format: MP4 or WebM

Two output formats: MP4 and WebM. MP4 is the safer default - it plays everywhere, and every ad platform and social app expects it. WebM is there if you specifically need a smaller file for web embedding and know your destination handles it.

Multi-core rendering: the setting most people skip

This is the one unique to local rendering. Poko detects your machine's CPU core count and shows it right in the panel, then gives you a slider to decide how many of those cores actually render your video, up to a cap of 24.

By default, it uses about half your available cores - fast, without taking over your machine. Push the slider to the max and rendering can finish faster, but Poko tells you directly: using every processor may slow down whatever else you're doing while it works.

This is the direct payoff of rendering locally instead of waiting on a cloud queue. You're not sharing a render farm with other customers - you're deciding, render by render, how much of your own machine to commit.

Choosing where it lands

Every export ends with a save dialog. You pick the folder and filename yourself, so a video doesn't just vanish into a fixed downloads folder you have to go hunting through later. That matters more than it sounds like once you're exporting the same project in three sizes for three different placements.

Putting it together

A practical pattern once you know the panel:

1. Hit Quick Draft first to sanity-check the cut
2. Set quality to standard or high, and pick 1080p or 4K for the primary export
3. Bump workers up if you're not using your machine for anything else
4. Export a second pass at Reel 9:16 and 1.5x-2x speed for social, from the same build

One project, three export settings, no re-editing in between. That's the actual advantage of controlling export yourself instead of getting whatever size and speed the tool decided for you.