Editor Projects

Everything you cut lives in a project: a timeline, its canvas settings, and the media it uses. Projects are saved to your account, so the list looks the same on every device you sign in from.

Create a project

1. Open Editor in the sidebar. The projects list opens.
2. Choose New Project.
3. Set the name, description, resolution, frame rate, and background color.
4. Resolution and frame rate define the export canvas and the timeline timing, so pick them to match where the video is going. You can change them later from the editor toolbar.

Canvas size and aspect ratio

The Resolution section on New Project offers presets for common platforms. Each card shows its pixel size and aspect ratio. Choose Custom to type an exact width and height.

To change the size later:

1. Deselect any clip so the properties sidebar shows the Canvas panel.
2. Edit the W and H fields to set the frame width and height in pixels.
3. Use Swap to flip width and height, for example to turn a landscape project vertical.
4. Use Reset to return the canvas to 1920x1080.

Dimensions snap to even numbers and run from 320x240 up to 7680x4320. Existing clips keep their position and scale when the canvas changes, so reposition anything that now sits outside the frame.

Your project list

• Search projects by name, and sort or filter as the list grows.
• Each card shows a cover image so you can spot the project you last worked on. A project that has nothing on its timeline yet borrows the thumbnail of its first video or image.
• Use Duplicate to branch a variation without touching the original.

How saving works

• Your projects are stored in your account, not in the browser. Every edit is saved to your account about a second after you make it. There is no Save button: switching tabs or going back to the project list with the editor's back arrow saves the last change first.
• Clicking another page in the sidebar saves your last edit first, then takes you there. If that edit cannot be saved, you stay in the Editor and see "Not saved. Trying again." If the save takes longer than five seconds you also stay, so click again.
• Opening a project loads the latest copy from your account, on any device.
• If a save cannot reach your account, for example because the connection dropped, the editor shows "Not saved. Trying again." and tries again about once a second. The edit stays open in the tab until it is saved, so keep the tab open until the message goes away. If you close the tab before that, the browser asks you to stay.
• A change to the canvas size or the project settings that cannot be saved is refused with a message, and the setting goes back to its saved value. Make the change again once you are back online.
• If the timeline of the same project was changed somewhere else while you had it open, the editor tells you it "was changed on another device" and keeps the timeline you are working on.

Trash and restore

• Deleting a project moves it to Trash instead of removing it straight away. It stays there for 30 days. After that it is deleted for good the next time your project list loads.
• Trash belongs to your account, so it shows the same projects on every device. Restore a project from the Trash section on any of them and it comes back as it was last saved.
• Empty trash permanently deletes the trashed projects from your account, on every device. In this browser it also removes the media only those projects used. Your other devices clear their own copies the next time you open the Editor there. That cannot be undone, so check the names first.

Move a project by hand

Export Project packages a project with its media into a bundle file, and Import Project brings a bundle back in. Use it to hand an edit to someone else, or to keep an archive copy of your own. Your projects already follow your account, so this is for moving work outside it.

Related

• The Editor
• Exporting