Teleport Video Creator Overview and Guide

The Teleport Video Creator lets you quickly create customized videos from your captures. Using intuitive camera adjustments, unique visual effects, and precise animation through keyframes, you can produce high-quality videos directly within Teleport.

Accessing the Video Creator

To open the Video Creator:

1. Go to your Teleport Captures and select the capture you'd like to edit.
2. Select the ‘Edit Capture’ button in the bottom-right of your capture (pencil icon).
3. Click the 'Video' button in the Toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

This action opens the Video Creator, where you can start to craft your custom video immediately.

Adjustable Camera Properties

You have control over various camera properties to customize the visual style of your video:

Field of View (FOV): Adjusts the visible area in your capture. Lower values zoom in, and higher values zoom out.

Exposure: Modifies brightness. Increase to brighten darker areas, decrease for darker scenes.

Contrast: Changes the distinction between dark and light areas. Higher contrast sharpens clarity, while lower contrast produces softer visuals.

Saturation: Alters color intensity. High saturation enriches colors, and low saturation yields subdued tones.

Understanding the Keyframe System

Teleport’s Video Creator uses a keyframe system to control camera movement and animations smoothly within your captures.

What Are Keyframes?

Keyframes are specific points in the timeline that define camera properties and positions. The Teleport Video Creator automatically animates the transitions smoothly between your set keyframes, creating professional camera movements. You can preview your video and designated keyframes at any time by clicking the play button above the timeline. 

How to Create and Edit Keyframes

1. Use the timeline at the bottom to select the exact frame where you’d like a keyframe to appear.
2. Adjust camera properties and positioning in the viewport.
3. Click "Add Keyframe". A blue box will appear on the timeline marking this frame as a keyframe.

Editing Existing Keyframes

To modify, click directly on a keyframe’s blue marker on the timeline.

Adjust properties or reposition the camera view.

You can also move a keyframe by dragging it along the timeline to a new frame position.

Custom Reveal Animations (Visual Effects)

Within the Video Creator are a couple visual effects which can be modified once or dynamically using the keyframe system. These are:

Splat Size: Adjusts the size of all splats in the scenes from point size (0%) to full size (100%).

Crop Reveal: Sets the radius of the crop level from the center of the scene.

Paired with the keyframe system, you can adjust these values to different levels and at different rates to create unique & custom ‘reveal’ animations for your scene, as shown below.

Animation Tools

The ‘Loop back to first keyframe’ option brings a copy of first keyframe onto the final frame, ensuring a consistent and loop-able video is generated. 

The ‘Evenly space keyframes’ option will equalize the spacing between the keyframes evenly over the total available frames (240). In other words, 240 / # of keyframes = frame count in between each keyframe.

Importing and Exporting Keyframes

The Import/Export feature allows you to reuse keyframe setups across different Teleport captures.

Exporting: After creating a keyframe sequence, click Export. The tool copies the keyframe data in text format to your clipboard.

Importing: Paste this exported text into the textbox at the bottom of the left-hand Video Creator menu. Then click Import to replicate the same camera movements and property adjustments in another capture.

Exporting Your Video

Once your video is finalized, exporting is straightforward:

1. Click Export Video at the bottom-right of the Video Creator interface.
2. Choose your preferred Resolution & FPS
3. Select your desired Aspect Ratio (e.g., 16:9 widescreen, 1:1 square, or 9:16 vertical).
4. Click Render Video.

Once rendering is complete, you will be provided with a link to download the video.

Editing Automated Flythrough Path

At times, the path that shows at the begin of a capture once it is loaded may enter thru walls or other objects in your scene, interfering with the video and interrupting immersion. 

The Video Creator Tool can also be used to adjust the automated flythrough shown once a capture is fully loaded (but the user has not moved yet). To do so, simply create the path you'd like to follow using the keyframing system. 

• Tip: you can ensure that the custom path you create loops properly by selecting ‘Loop back to first keyframe’ for your final waypoint.

Once complete, click the ‘Edit Flythrough’ button > ‘Set Flythrough’ to set your new path. Every time the capture loads, the initial animation will now follow the new camera path you have created. 

In case you'd like to revert to the old default path, click ‘Edit Flythrough’ > ‘Use Default Path’.

Use these guidelines to experiment and perfect your custom Teleport capture videos. For additional support, our help channels are always available (Discord: under ‘Teleport’ or emailing ‘teleport@varjo.com’)