Projects, files and your account

Saved as you work

The studio saves the project on this device a moment after each change; Saved in the top bar says so. A reload, or opening the studio tomorrow, picks up where you were: the project, the playhead, the zoom and what was selected. Ctrl+S saves at once. If the top bar says Not saved or Not stored, see Troubleshooting.

Projects

File, Open project (Ctrl+O) lists the projects on this device, newest first. Click one to open it; beside it, the pencil renames it in place, Duplicate copies it and Delete deletes it. File, Rename renames the open one too (or click its name in the top bar).

• New project starts an empty one.
• Save as new project goes on in a copy of the open project, under a new name: try something without losing the original.
• Duplicate makes a copy and keeps working in the one you have open.
• With more than five projects, Search projects finds one by any words of its name.
• A project made on another device, brought here by your account, is marked Another device, with how many of its files are not on this device. This device and Other devices show only those.

Deleting a project removes it and the media no other project uses from this device.

Project files

Project file in the top bar, or the File menu, saves the project as a .driftedit file:

• Save a project file (Ctrl+Shift+S): everything inside, the media too, to move a complete edit to another device or keep it safe.
• Save a project file without media: small, for an edit whose files are already on the other device.

Open a project file opens one. A project file carries who made it, if you add it. A large project file takes a moment: a window shows how much of its media has been copied to this device until it opens.

The free plan's lock

On the free plan, a project locks 48 hours after its last edit. Every edit restarts the clock, and the time left is shown in the top bar. A locked project is kept on your device with its media, never deleted: Pro opens it again. Exported videos never expire.

Signing in

Signing in is optional on the free plan. Use Sign in in the account menu at the top right: Google, Apple, Discord, TikTok or your email.

With an account:

• Your edits on every device. Your projects (without their media), your styles, transitions, effects, overlays, techniques, presets and templates, and the editor's settings (the theme, your keys, the language, the music grid, the lessons you have seen) follow you to your other devices. Open a project there and import the same files to see it whole. Turn it off in Profile and settings, under Your edits on every device; Sync now syncs at once.
• Pro, once it is on sale.

If a project was changed on two devices before they could agree, both versions are kept: the other device's beside yours, named "(other device)".

Profile and settings also has your name and picture, the ways you sign in, the browsers signed in (sign one out from here), a download of everything held about your account, and deleting the account.