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Undo and redo changes
Undo reverses the most recent change to the open project. Use it for "that was wrong" — it is immediate and needs no dialog. When you want to see what changed before reversing it, or reach further back than the last few gestures, open Version history instead.
Undo works in the editor, on the project you have open. It is free on every plan.
Undo the last change
| Platform | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| macOS | Cmd+Z |
| Windows | Ctrl+Z |
Edit ▸ Undo does the same, and it names the change it will reverse — Undo merge shots, Undo metadata edit — so you can check before pressing it.
With nothing to undo, both are greyed out and the shortcut does nothing.
Redo a change
| Platform | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| macOS | Shift+Cmd+Z |
| Windows | Shift+Ctrl+Z or Ctrl+Y |
Redo becomes available after an undo, and Edit ▸ Redo names what it will put back.
Making a new edit after undoing starts a fresh chain from where you are — the run of undos you had been walking is finished, and redo has nothing to reapply.
Text editing undo vs project undo
The same keystroke means two things, and which one you get depends on what you are doing.
- While you are typing in a text field, Cmd+Z belongs to that field. It undoes your typing, character by character, the way it does everywhere else.
- Everywhere else — on the board, on a checkbox or a slider, or in a field you have focused but not typed in — it reverses the last change to the project.
An example. You click into a Location field, type Warehosue, and press Cmd+Z: the typo goes, because you are mid-edit. You click away, the value saves, and you press it again: the whole metadata edit is reversed, because there is no longer an edit in progress to undo.
Undo is also held back while a modal is open, so a dialog can never have a keystroke reverse something behind it.
One change, one undo
A value written across many shots is a single change, so it takes one undo:
- A metadata value applied to a multi-shot selection
- A paste of one field across fifty shots
- A bulk change made by a connected assistant, which is recorded the same way
Fifty shots never means fifty presses.
Pasting several fields at once is the exception worth knowing: each field is written as its own change, so a three-field paste takes three undos.
What undo can reverse
The same set Version history records: shot and video metadata, transcript and speaker corrections, project title and notes, folder moves, splits and merges, and shot-detection settings.
What undo cannot reverse
- AI Autofill. Autofill writes without creating a restore point, so there is nothing to step back to. Its guard is Only fill empty fields.
- Imports and exports. Neither is an edit to a project.
- Your media files. Undo never touches anything on your disk.
- Permanent deletions. Where the app says an action cannot be undone — deleting a collection, a quick filter or an archived field — it means it.
If undo did not do what you expected
- Check where the focus was. Inside a text field you were typing in, the keystroke belonged to the field.
- Check no modal was open.
- Open Version history and look at the most recent entry. If the change you wanted to reverse is not there, it is one of the kinds StoryFolder does not record.
- If undo reported that it could not revert a change, note the message and contact support.