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Download your finished video from the editor’s Download menu, or use Share to copy a link or get an embed code. Download is next to Share in the top right of the editor; on narrow screens, open More (…) to find it. Share also lets you set who can watch or get an email code.

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Share your video

  1. Open your video in the editor.
  2. In the top right, click Share.
  3. Click Copy link to copy the video link to your clipboard.
  4. Paste and send the link to anyone you want to share it with. They can watch the video in their browser.
Tella renders videos instantly, so you can copy and share the link right away without waiting.

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Change who can access your video

In the share menu, you can choose who is allowed to view the video.
  • Private (only me): only you can open the video.
  • Anyone with the link: anyone you send the link to can watch.
  • Everyone in workspace: only people on your team can watch. This option only appears once your workspace has other members. If the video is embedded on an external site, viewers who are not signed in to your workspace see a “Video unavailable” message with a link to watch it on Tella.
  • Password: anyone with the link can open the page, but they will need the password to watch. Type a password yourself, or click the refresh icon next to the password field to generate a strong random one.
  • Embed only: the video plays only inside embeds, optionally restricted to domains you approve. See Domain restriction for embedded videos.
For additional, more granular preferences, click Viewer settings in the share menu.

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Preview what viewers will see

When you share your video, viewers will not see the editor. They will see the video view page instead.
  1. In the top right of the editor, click View (shortcut P).
  2. Review the view page to confirm everything looks right.
On the view page, you can:
  • Edit the video title
  • Add a call-to-action button
  • Play the video to review the final result
When you share a video link on LinkedIn, Tella supplies a three-second animated GIF as the preferred link preview if your video is set to Anyone with the link and has no uploaded custom thumbnail. A static preview is also supplied as a fallback; LinkedIn controls how the preview appears. Videos with an uploaded custom thumbnail or any other link access setting keep a static preview. Link previews on other platforms, including Slack, WhatsApp, Facebook, and X, are unchanged. If LinkedIn shows an old preview, use LinkedIn Post Inspector to refresh it. Sharing a link is separate from publishing the video to LinkedIn, which uploads the video itself.

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Call-to-action buttons

You can add up to two call-to-action (CTA) buttons to your video. CTA buttons appear on the video view page and in embeds, giving viewers a clickable link alongside your video.

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Workspace default CTAs

Your workspace can have default CTA buttons that automatically appear on all videos. When a workspace default is set, each video inherits those buttons without any extra setup. To change the workspace default, open Settings → CTA button.

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Customize or remove CTAs per video

From the video view page, click a CTA button to open the CTA editor. You have three options:
  • Keep the workspace default: the video uses whatever CTA is set at the workspace level. If the workspace default changes later, the video updates automatically.
  • Customize for this video: override the workspace default with a custom label and URL for this video only.
  • Remove from this video: hide the CTA on this video without affecting the workspace default or other videos.
If you are the video creator or an editor, you can also click the video title in the top-left of the page to access a dropdown menu with quick actions like rename, duplicate, manage playlists, viewer settings, and delete. Viewers can also control options such as captions, mute, and full screen. On desktop, they can change playback speed; in narrow players the speed control is under More (…). If you have downloads enabled, viewers see a Download button in the top navigation bar.

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Share via email

You can generate embeddable content to paste directly into an email, so recipients see a preview of your video without leaving their inbox. For a full walkthrough including customization options, see Embed Tella videos in email.
  1. Open your video in the editor.
  2. Click Share in the top right, then click Email.
  3. Choose a format:
    • Animated: an animated GIF preview. Works in all email clients.
    • Static: a still image preview. Works in all email clients.
    • Video: an HTML5 video that plays inline. Works in Apple Mail, iOS Mail, and Superhuman. Other email clients show a clickable thumbnail that links to the video.
  4. For Animated and Static, click Copy content to paste the rendered preview into Gmail, Outlook, or another email compose window. Use Copy code if your email tool accepts raw HTML. The Video option only offers Copy code.
If you uploaded a custom thumbnail, Tella uses it for the Static preview and the Video poster. The Animated option always uses an animated GIF from your video. For the Static format, the frame start-time and play button controls are hidden when a custom thumbnail is used because that preview no longer comes from a video frame. The controls remain available for Animated previews.
The Video option requires that your video has been exported at least once. If no export is available, you will see a message prompting you to export first.
For the Video embed to work, your video must be set to Anyone with the link. Email clients and their media proxies cannot authenticate, so the video needs to be publicly accessible.

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Download your video

Click Download in the editor to save the finished video to your computer, then upload it elsewhere if you want.
  1. Open your video in the editor.
  2. In the top right, click Download (next to Share). On a narrow screen, open More (…) and choose Download.
  3. Choose your download options:
    • File type: Video (.mp4), Audio only (.m4a), Separate clips (.zip), the raw recordings behind the video (paid plans only), a thumbnail (JPG, WebP, or animated GIF), subtitles only (.srt or .vtt), or the transcript as text (.txt)
    • Subtitles: Burned in, SRT file, or None
    • Size: HD or 4K (4K requires a paid plan and isn’t available during a free trial)
    • FPS: 30 or 60. 60 FPS requires a paid plan; on Pro it is limited to videos up to 5 minutes long, and Premium has no length limit.
    • Speed: 1x, Faster/slower, or Timelapse (paid plans only)
    Your export settings are saved automatically and remembered between sessions, so you don’t need to reconfigure them each time.
  4. Click Download video (or Download audio, Download subtitles, and so on, depending on the file type) to download the file to your computer.
Once downloaded, you can upload the file to other platforms.
To download several videos at once, select them in your library and use batch export. Tella zips them up and emails you a download link.

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While your download is preparing

Larger videos can take a few minutes to prepare. While the Preparing download modal is open, you can:
  • Close the window: Tella keeps preparing your download. If you keep the video page open, the browser download starts automatically when the file is ready. If you are signed in and export notifications are turned on, Tella also emails you a link. You can reopen the same download menu later to find the file.
  • Cancel: click Cancel to stop waiting for the download in this browser and close the modal. The button is only available if you are signed in.
If another teammate has already started the same download with the same settings, you’ll join their in-progress export instead of starting a new one. Cancelling does not necessarily stop a shared export; it can keep preparing for teammates who are still waiting.
Last modified on October 2, 2026