diff --git a/scripts/cutVideoSegments.sh b/scripts/cutVideoSegments.sh
index 9ee33cf..8f0e4c4 100755
--- a/scripts/cutVideoSegments.sh
+++ b/scripts/cutVideoSegments.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi
 
 echo "Cutting video into GIF segments based on scenes.json..."
 
-GIF_SCALE="1024"
+export GIF_SCALE="1024"
 
 # Parse scenes.json and cut video segments as GIFs
 node -e "