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When frames finish, you download the full output through Blender.\n\n![The job workspace with header, frame details, frame grid, preview, job details, and charts panels](https://superlumin.al/docs/images/web/job-overview.png)\n\n*A running job in the web app: frame grid, live preview, job details, and per-frame operation timing in one workspace.*\n\n- [Annotation 1: Job status, progress, and actions](/docs/web-ui/job-details#workspace-panels)\n\n- [Annotation 2: Selected-frame details and re-render](/docs/web-ui/job-details#frame-grid-and-selection)\n\n- [Annotation 3: Frame grid](/docs/web-ui/job-details#frame-grid-and-selection)\n\n- [Annotation 4: Sequence preview](/docs/web-ui/job-details#preview)\n\n- [Annotation 5: Job and scene details](/docs/web-ui/job-details#job-and-scene-details)\n\n- [Annotation 6: Operations chart and render logs](/docs/web-ui/job-details#charts-and-logs)\n\n- [Start a first render](/docs/getting-started): Install the add-on, connect an account, create a project, and submit a test frame.\n- [Use the Blender add-on](/docs/blender-addon): Understand every control from upload mode through output download.\n- [Use the web app](/docs/web-ui): Inspect projects, jobs, frames, previews, metrics, and logs.\n- [Solve a problem](/docs/blender-addon/troubleshooting): Run focused checks and collect the details support needs.\n\n## The workflow at a glance\n\n### Prepare in Blender\n\nSave the `.blend`, test the intended frame locally, and choose whether the submission should be self-contained or reuse project files.\n\n### Submit through the add-on\n\nSelect a Superluminal project, frame range, render order, image format, Blender version, and any render-time add-ons.\n\n### Review in the web app\n\nWatch frame state, inspect previews and render layers, compare machines and operation timings, and search live logs.\n\n### Download through Blender\n\nChoose a local folder in **Manage & Download**. You can start before the whole job finishes. The downloader follows completed frames.\n\n## Current product boundaries\n\nFour limits cause most of the confusion. Each links to a full explanation:\n\n- Rendering is submitted from the Blender add-on. The [public API](/docs/automation) is experimental.\n- Full-quality output is [downloaded through the add-on](/docs/blender-addon/manage-and-download), not the web job page, and render objects are [retained for seven days](/docs/web-ui/outputs#seven-day-render-object-retention).\n- Rendering requires a [positive organization balance](/docs/web-ui/billing). When funds run out, active frames are not guaranteed to finish.\n- Storage, Production, and Workstations are visible in navigation but still [Coming Soon previews](/docs/availability).\n\nThe app shows current pricing, referral benefits, and available capacity. 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