Upload a new version of a file

When a file changes (the client's new logo, a re-export of a cut, a better recording), upload the new one as a version of the file you already have. The Library keeps showing one file, now the newest version, and the earlier ones wait in its Versions tab.

Upload a new version

Open the file in the Library, choose ⋯, then Upload new version and pick the file. A video takes a video, a photo a photo and a sound file a sound file.

While it uploads, the Versions tab shows how far it's got. Once it's in, it's the file in the Library: it keeps the file's name, folder and Library fields, and is processed like any upload. Its tile shows which version it is, like v2.

Private files can't take a new version. Show the file to your team first.

Tools that make a new version

Some tools make a better copy of the same file, so their result goes in as its next version rather than a file of its own:

• Make the final on a Seedance draft.
• Upscale, on a video or a photo.
• Clean up audio on a sound file. Cleaning the sound out of a video makes a new sound file, since it isn't the same kind.

Tools that make something else, like Remove background, Dub, Extend or Reframe, still add a file of their own.

Reorder, look at, restore or delete a version

The Versions tab lists every version with who added it and when. The one at the top, marked Current, is the one in the Library. A new version goes to the top once it's in.

• Drag a version by its grip, the dots at its left, to a new place in the list. Whatever is at the top becomes the file in the Library. You can also drag a version from anywhere on it; on a phone, press and hold it first. With a keyboard, press Alt and the up or down arrow.
• Choose a version to see it in the viewer. On a phone, the list shows the versions without opening them.
• Restore moves a version to the top, making it the file in the Library again.
• The bin deletes one version, after you confirm with Delete version. If it was the current one, the next version down takes its place. Clips that use a deleted version go blank. The last version left has no bin: delete the file from the Library instead.

A version that didn't process can't go to the top.

Deleting the file from the Library deletes every version of it.

Edits, elements and links

Clips in an edit keep the version they were made with, so a new version never changes a cut someone has already seen. An element keeps its photos the same way.

When a clip's file has a newer version, the clip's panel in the editor says so, for example v3 of this file is in the Library. Choose Use v3 to switch every clip on that timeline that uses the older version. Each clip keeps its place, length, look and framing, and Undo puts the old version back.

A file's share link follows the file: whoever opens it sees the current version. Comments stay with the version they were left on, so after a new version the Comments tab starts fresh, and earlier comments are on the earlier versions.

Every version counts towards the workspace's storage until it's deleted.

Versions and takes

Making a prompt again gives you more takes, not versions: they're alternatives to choose between. The Library shows a prompt's takes as one tile marked with how many there are, like 4 takes. Open it to step through each one; the panel says which take you're on.