diff --git a/technical-documentation/architecture/export-pipeline.md b/technical-documentation/architecture/export-pipeline.md
index 8d773d99f5..b1c99de54e 100644
--- a/technical-documentation/architecture/export-pipeline.md
+++ b/technical-documentation/architecture/export-pipeline.md
@@ -12,9 +12,13 @@ leave the native process. Performance numbers, the bench, and the rejected
 alternatives that drove the design live in
 [engineering/rendering-performance.md](../engineering/rendering-performance.md).
 
-GIF is out of scope here: it has no native encoder yet, so it keeps its own
-dedicated code path in `src/lib/exporter/gifExporter.ts` — the one format
-the document adapter still renders in the renderer.
+GIF also uses the native compositor. `ExportDialog` calls `exportGifNative`
+in [`compositorViewClient.ts`](../../src/native/compositorViewClient.ts), then
+`compositorViewService.exportGif` forwards the clips, scene and export settings
+to the addon's `exportGif`. The Rust
+[`gif_export.rs`](../../crates/compositor/src/gif_export.rs) walks the same
+composited timeline as MP4, then encodes the rendered frames as GIF. The
+renderer watches progress for both formats; it no longer renders GIF frames.
 
 ```mermaid
 flowchart LR
@@ -289,4 +293,4 @@ had `speedRegions: 0, zoomRegions: 0` while the real timeline held two 3× speed
 regions and a 1.80× zoom. Truncating to the valid prefix would have returned a
 project that opened cleanly and was silently stripped of its effects. **A partial
 document that parses is more dangerous than one that does not** — which is why the
-loader rejects rather than salvages.
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+loader rejects rather than salvages.