TL:DR
| When editing the media from: | Used in Draft or Upcoming Post | Save action |
| Library | No | Saves changes to the original file in the Library, with a design file to allow for future edits. |
| Library | Yes | Creates a new version in the Library with your edits, leaves the media in upcoming posts unchanged. |
| Create post | Yes | Edits the media in that post or draft only. Note: Edits won't cascade to all scheduled items in a cluster, but can be updated manually as needed. |
Media Edit Behaviour
We’ve included guardrails to prevent you from taking destructive actions on items that are included in drafts or upcoming posts to ensure that edits from the Library don’t make changes to posts that have already been created or scheduled.
Edits are saved in a (hidden) design file allowing for continued editing in a timeline view, and won't save over your original media.
Editing and saving from the Library, item is not used in an upcoming post.
Opening a video and making edits in the library will always make changes to the original media asset in the library.
You’ll see a small message down the bottom right of the timeline
You are editing the original image, make a copy in Library if you would like to keep the original.
Media edits non-destructive and are stored in a design file in the library, so if you want to pick it back up again and make further changes, you can resume where you left off in the timeline editor with full creative control.
Editing and saving from the Library, media is used in an upcoming draft or post.
Media that is being used in a draft or upcoming post will have a small icon on the thumbnail indicating that it’s associated with a draft or scheduled post with a tooltip on mouse hover.
This video is being used in a draft or upcoming post.
When editing media that is in an existing draft or post, we’ll create a new version automatically in the library so that upcoming post is unchanges, and edits in the library aren’t cascaded through to scheduled items.
You’ll see a message down the bottom right of the editor
This video is being used in an upcoming post. You are creating a new version, make a copy in Library if you would like to keep the original.
Your edits will be saved in a new media file and be saved with timeline/design information allow you to make further changes as needed in the future.
Editing media from Create Post
Editing images or video that are in a post or draft will always edit the media used in the post and will not make changes to the original media file in the Library.
This prevents unintentional destructive edits to source materials, while ensuring that the post will always have the most recent version.
While editing an image or video that’s in a post from within Create Post, you’ll see the following message in the editor.
This video is being used in an upcoming post. You are editing the version that will be published.
Non destructive editing
When you save an edited video, we don’t overwrite the original file with the new render - we will save a project file (hidden) in your library, allowing you to pick up the video again with full creative control in the future.
This means if you need to create variants, make changes to accomodate last minute requests or even fix a small error, we’ll load your project file with the timelines in place.
Why is this important?
We’ve all needed to go back and make tiny changes to creative, and overwriting the original means there’s no possibility to undo or redo your work without starting from scratch once you locate the original video file.
This lets you keep moving through your editing process without having to worry about extensive version backups or accidentally destroying the original file in the process.