Settings

The Settings tab is where you prepare your video for the world — its shape, its quality, its length, and the final export. Once everything looks right in the editor, this is the last stop before you download your finished video.

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Video format (shape)

Choose the format to match where you'll share the video. Every format is one of three shapes, and AvoMap fits your map to it perfectly with no awkward cropping:

There are ready presets for all the popular platforms too — each one simply picks the right shape above and names it for where you're posting:

So you can jump straight to a YouTube video, an Instagram Reel, a TikTok, a Facebook Story, and more, without thinking about aspect ratios at all.

Quality

Every AvoMap video renders at a smooth 60 frames per second — always, whichever option you pick. What you choose here is the resolution:

• Full HD – 1920×1080. Crisp and great for sharing, with smaller files and faster exports. This is the default.
• 4K Ultra HD – 3840×2160. Ultra-sharp, for the highest detail on big screens. Rendering in 4K adds 1 extra video credit and takes a little longer to produce.

Portrait formats — the ones made for Reels, Stories, and Shorts — export in Full HD, since those platforms don't accept 4K uploads.

Length

Your video's length is set by how long each part of your route plays, which you control on the timeline. A video can run up to two minutes. If you hit the ceiling, shorten a few legs on the timeline to make room for more.

The cap is there because rendering a map video is heavy work: longer videos mean longer waits and files that are harder to share. Two minutes is also about as long as anyone watches a map animation.

Units

Distances and heights follow the system you pick here, and the choice runs through everything on screen: the distance readout, the elevation chart, animated number overlays.

• Metric – kilometers and meters
• Imperial – miles and feet
• Nautical – nautical miles, for sailing and other trips on water

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Nautical miles are a water measurement, so choosing them switches the elevation chart off. There's little to plot when the whole route is at sea level.

Map language

The map language decides what the map itself says. Place names, cities, countries and roads are drawn in the language you pick, with around forty to choose from, including scripts like Japanese, Korean, Greek and Hebrew.

This is separate from the language of the editor's own buttons and menus, which lives in your account settings. A German video of a trip through Japan can have a German interface and Japanese place names, or English labels the audience can read — your call.

Title and details

Give your video a title so it's easy to find later and appears where you'd expect. You can also manage general details about your project here.

Editor theme

Switch the editor between a dark and a light theme. This one is purely about your eyes and your room; it changes nothing about the video you export.

Replacing the route with a GPS file

Upload GPS file imports a GPS file (.gpx, .kml, .kmz, .fit or .tcx) into the map you already have open.

Deleting this map

The last row deletes the map for good, after a confirmation. Videos you already exported aren't affected — they stay in your downloads until they expire.

Exporting your video

When you're ready, start the export. AvoMap builds your video on our servers, so you don't need to keep the tab open and wait, and you'll get an email when it's done. The Exporting and downloads page walks through the summary, the queue and where your finished files live.

Ready to render yours? Export your map video in the AvoMap editor.

Tips

• Choose the format first. Knowing the shape up front helps you place overlays where they'll look best.
• Preview before exporting. Play the whole video in the editor to catch anything you'd like to change.
• Start with HD. It's quick and looks great; step up to 4K when you need maximum detail.