Video editing

Playflow can create a new playable revision from a ready video. Editing is asynchronous: viewers keep seeing the current revision while the replacement is rendered, verified, uploaded, and linked.

Trim, crop, and audio tools

Open the video editor to split the timeline at the playhead and mark segments for removal. At least one segment must remain. If source frame-rate metadata is available, arrow keys can nudge by one frame; otherwise one-frame nudging is unavailable and Shift plus an arrow still moves by one second.

Crop to the original frame, a preset aspect ratio, or a free selection. Audio can remain unchanged, be muted, or use gain from -30 dB to +12 dB. Live preview helps with the decision, but the server validates crop bounds, ordered nonoverlapping keep ranges, duration, and audio settings again.

Apply and render

Applying an edit queues background work and returns before rendering finishes. Only a ready, unclaimed video can start an edit, and a video can have only one draft, queued, processing, or reconciling edit at a time. Progress and the current stage remain visible in edit history.

The rendered revision is H.264 media. Playflow does not provide an arbitrary output-format or rendered-edit export chooser. Fleet original downloads and workspace exports are separate portability features.

Cancel and failures

A draft or queued edit can be canceled directly. Canceling during processing records a cancellation request, so work can take time to stop. Failed edits retain a reason and, when available, a stage such as source open, download, FFmpeg, verification, upload, or relink.

Revision safeguards

Each edit captures the source revision. Apply fails if the video changed after the draft was created. Completion also verifies the source and target identities before switching playback. This prevents stale work from replacing a newer revision.

A custom uploaded poster is retained. A poster known to come from the previous provider rendition is reset and regenerated for the edited media.

History and revert

Edit history lists up to 50 recent entries. After a successful edit, the immediately previous version can be restored for up to 30 days, provided this edit is still the latest revision and no conflicting master-storage operation or reconciliation state exists. Applying a later edit ends the earlier edit's revert window. Revert creates another revision; it does not erase history.

← Uploading video Replacing a video →

Every plan includes independent Play and Replay positions in video settings: use X/Y percentage fields or a 3×3 thirds preset. Reset clears that video's override and inherits the workspace position (50,50 if unset). The Interactive editor provides distinct labeled draggable Play and Replay ghosts and a same-position-for-both option. Coordinates refer to the video picture across contain, crop and fullscreen; rendering clamps the circle inside the visible picture without changing saved values. Auto checks the moved button rectangle against visible overlays; Hide ignores the position.