Send it to your editor.

Pick a target.

Open Deliver and choose a Target. Rendered media keeps the finished look. An editable comp can be changed in your editor. Neither syncs back to Carvercat.

Rendered formats.

Deliver lists what your computer can export. Pick from that list.

• Check dimensions, frame rate, frame count and range.
• Check transparency in the actual output.
• Check audio duration and alignment.
• Keep original sources; preview proxies do not replace them.

Export a rendered file.

1. Save, then confirm comp, size, rate and duration.
2. Apply pending templates and fill missing media or asset slots.
3. Open Deliver, choose Files, then a method and format.
4. Check range, folder, name and what happens if the file exists.
5. Read the plan and any warnings, then export.
6. Check the first, middle and last frames, not only the success message.

DaVinci Resolve.

Carves an editable Fusion comp onto your timeline. Works with Resolve Free and Studio. Built against Resolve 21. Everything is generated on your computer.

1. In Deliver, choose Target → DaVinci Resolve and a method.
2. Choose track, frame, and insert or overwrite.
3. Read the plan, then send.
4. Check the comp on the timeline and change a control in Fusion.

Use a test timeline while learning.

Edit it again from Carvercat.

The scene is stored inside the Fusion comp. A clip Carvercat made can be edited in place, edited as new, or deleted from Carvercat. Carvercat checks the clip is still where it expects, and refuses if not. Audio cannot live in Fusion, so it is placed as separate audio clips.

Changes you make in Resolve do not sync back. Carvercat’s exposed controls do not become Inspector controls.

After Effects.

Carves an editable comp into the project you have open in After Effects.

1. In Deliver, choose Target → After Effects.
2. Choose Connection: Automatic or Manual.
3. Choose Placement: New comp, or Replace the earlier Carvercat comp of the same name.
4. Read the preflight report, then send.
5. Find the comp in a folder named Carvercat in your project.

Carvercat never saves your project and never creates an .aep. Save it yourself.

Automatic or manual.

No script or plug-in is installed into After Effects. Sends refuse, with the reason shown, when templates are pending or a font is missing.

What stays editable.

These arrive as native After Effects layers:

• Text layers: font, size, tracking, leading, point and box text.
• Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, path, star, polygon, fills, strokes, dashes, trim paths.
• Footage, audio, precomps, adjustment layers, track mattes, blend modes, parenting.
• Transform keyframes with matching Bézier easing.

These are baked or approximate: colour animation, animated paths, per-axis scale on different frames, blur, shadow and glow (glow is a stack, not After Effects’ own Glow), text outlines, merge operators Out and Held Out. Other effects are not mapped yet. Anything not mapped is listed in the report, not dropped silently.

Premiere Pro.

For now, work through After Effects. We have not tested this route, so treat it as a how-to:

1. Send the comp to After Effects.
2. Save the After Effects project.
3. In Premiere Pro, import the comp, or bring it in with Dynamic Link.

This route needs After Effects installed. Or export rendered media with Files and import it as usual.

Known failure versus unknown outcome.

After a known failed send, a retry can reuse saved output that has not changed. Changing the source or settings renders again.

Common reasons a send is refused: Resolve not running, scripting off, target changed, templates not applied, project not saved, media slots empty, frame rates not matching.

Other editors.

Final Cut Pro and other editors can import rendered media as usual. Its design controls stay in Carvercat. Check frame rate, transparency and audio in that app.