# Settings

> Connect Claude and ElevenLabs, pick a model and default voice, and check that your computer is ready to build and render.

Source: https://demovexa.com/docs/settings/settings

Settings holds everything that applies to the whole studio: your Claude and ElevenLabs connections, the database, and checks that this computer can build and render videos. Product-specific settings, such as brand and modules, live in Workspace settings instead (see [Workspaces](/docs/workspaces/overview)).

Open Settings from **Settings** in the sidebar, or press <kbd>⌘</kbd> <kbd>,</kbd> (on Windows/Linux <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> <kbd>,</kbd>).

## The status pill and checks

The header shows a status pill that sums up every check:

| Pill | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **All ready** | Everything passed |
| **Ready · N to look at** | You can make videos, but some checks have warnings |
| **N to fix** | Something needs fixing before everything works |

Click **Check again** to run all checks now. **Checked HH:MM** shows when they last ran.

Each tab lists its own live checks. A check that fails or warns shows how to fix it and, where it helps, a command with a **Copy** button. Paste the command into Terminal (macOS, Linux) or PowerShell (Windows), run it, then click **Check again**.

## Key fields

The Claude and ElevenLabs tabs each have a key field. They all work the same way:

- Paste a key and save it. Keys are stored in your computer's password store and only sent to Anthropic and ElevenLabs. They're never shown in full again.
- A saved key shows as **Saved …abcd** (its last four characters), with **Replace** and **Remove**.
- If DemoVexa found a key in its configuration file instead, it offers **Save to keychain** to move it into the password store.
- The eye button shows or hides what you've typed.

See [Privacy and your data](/docs/settings/privacy-and-data#where-your-keys-are-kept) for where keys are stored on each system.

## Tabs

### Account

Your DemoVexa account on this computer: who's signed in, your plan and its status, this month's new videos and renders against your allowance, and what the plan includes. From here you can **Open billing**, **Manage computers**, **Check plan now**, or **Sign out of this computer**. Signed out, it shows **Sign in to DemoVexa**. See [Your account and computers](/docs/account/sign-in).

### Claude

- **Connection**: click **Test connection** to check that DemoVexa can reach Claude.
- **How Claude runs**:
  - **My Claude login** uses Claude Code signed in with your Claude account. It's for your own use only; selling videos or sharing the studio with a team needs an API key.
  - **Anthropic API key**: every call is billed to the API key, at API prices.
- **Anthropic API key**: the key field, used when Claude runs with an API key.
- **Model**:

| Model | Best for |
|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Best results (the default) |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | About half the price |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Fastest and cheapest; simpler videos |

Checks: Connection, Claude Code, API key, Model, Agent permissions.

> [!TIP]
> Opus gives the best videos. If cost matters more, Sonnet costs about half.

### ElevenLabs

- **ElevenLabs API key**: the key field.
- **Default voice**: **Studio default (Sia)** or any of your ElevenLabs voices. It's used when a project hasn't picked a voice.

Checks: API key, Plan (warns when fewer than 5,000 characters are left), Default voice, Model.

### Database

The **Local database** card has **Back up now** and **Show in folder**, and shows:

- **Status**: the database type and size.
- **File**: where the database is. To keep it on another drive, see [Privacy and your data](/docs/settings/privacy-and-data#move-the-data-folder).
- **Contains**: counts of what's stored.
- **Backups**: the newest 5 backups, plus how many older ones there are.

Checks: Database, Migrations, Backups, Storage (warns when less than 5 GB is free). See [Backups](/docs/settings/backups).

### Rendering

This tab has checks only. They cover what DemoVexa needs to build and render videos: Video repo, Repo packages, Studio packages, Node.js, FFmpeg, Chrome Headless Shell, Photo conversion and Keep awake. On Linux it also checks the Chrome libraries and the folder picker.

> [!NOTE]
> Chrome Headless Shell downloads on your first render. If its check asks for it before then, copy the command it shows (`npx remotion browser ensure`) and run it.

### Folder access

DemoVexa tests that it can write, read and delete files in four places: **Studio data**, **Video code**, **Video assets** and **Previews and stills**. If a test fails, the check shows the fix for your operating system. See [Troubleshooting](/docs/help/troubleshooting#folders-and-permissions).

### Studio

Checks: Address, Password, Settings files, Work in progress.

Under **Setup**, **Run setup again** reopens the first-run setup window, so you can walk through connecting Claude and ElevenLabs, the system check, and adding a product again. See [First run](/docs/getting-started/first-run).

## Workspace keys

By default every workspace uses the studio's Claude and ElevenLabs keys from Settings. A workspace can use its own keys instead, set in **Workspace settings → Connections**. See [Connections and checks](/docs/workspaces/connections-and-checks).

## Related

- [Privacy and your data](/docs/settings/privacy-and-data)
- [Backups](/docs/settings/backups)
- [Troubleshooting](/docs/help/troubleshooting)