Video Editing on Sked: How to, common actions and FAQ.
With our latest update, we’ve brought a swag of new tools to help you edit, create and move fast when managing your media Library and Video media in Sked. With full time line editing, joining clips, adding custom audio and project files giving you non-destructive editing, it’s a swiss army knife of creative tools right where you need them.
How to a open a video in the new editor
Click the context menu item (the 3 dots) when hovering on a media item to open the drop down, and select Edit from the list.
Crop and Resize videos
The video editor can crop and resize videos from landscape or portrait into the preferred platform dimensions either in the LIbrary or Directly in Create post.
Note: Read How editing and saving works for Library and media in Upcoming Posts below!
Simple Crop to new dimensions.
- Open the video editor from Create post or from The library
- Select “Resize” from the top of the Timeline editor
- You’ll see a list of platforms and their preset video resolutions, allowing you fast and accurate resizing
- You can reposition, zoom and pan the clip to capture the best section when resizing
Add Audio/Music to a Video
The Video editor can add music overlays to a video and create a new video with the custom audio track. Audio can be in applied from either an audio file loaded into the editor or from a video file that is added to the timeline.
Adding a music file.
- From the editor, click uploads to open the uploaded file manager. Note: These items live in a hidden directory in your library, and cannot be manually accessed or managed from the Sked Library.
- You can upload your own additional Videos, Images and Audio.
- Additional media can be added to the timeline by dragging and dropping from either the Uploads or from the respective VIdeos, Images and Audio sections.
Read How does trending Audio work on Instagram when uploading Reels from Sked.
Join or stitch videos together
The Video editor allows you to join or stitch multiple media assets together into a single video using a full timeline editor. There are many (many) more creative controls for layers, animations, visual effects that can be applied as well.
- Open a video from the Library
- Select Add Clip from the timeline
- Select the video to add from the Videos tab, opened automatically
- Double click or drag it to the timeline editor.
Media Edit Behaviour
When using the new Video and Photo editor on Sked, different behaviours will apply to saving your changes depending on where the media is being edited and if the post is being used in an upcoming post.
We’ve designed some straightforward rules to prevent you from taking destructive actions on items that are included on upcoming posts, and well as ensuring that edits within posts don’t make changes to the source media permanently. Plus, edits are saved in a design file, so you can pick it back up again later should further edits be needed.
Editing and Saving From the Library, 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.
The 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 post.
Media that is being used in a 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 post, we’ll create a new version automatically in the library so that the upcoming post retains the original media, and edits in the library aren’t accidentally 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 creating a new version, make a copy in Library if you would like to keep the original.
Note that if you have a media asset split across multiple posts, changes to one post will not cascade across each post individually.
Non destructive editing
When you save an editing Video, we don’t overwrite the original file with the render - we will save a hidden project file in your library allowing you to pick up the video in the library 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.
Copying Media Assets
You can quickly duplicate Images and Video in the updated editor, allowing you to quickly build variants for different platforms with different crops, audio or titles.
Note: copying will create a new version of the rendered video, and won’t duplicate the design file to bring the original timeline editing on the new version.