Version history
StoryFolder records a restore point before each edit gesture, so you can look at any earlier state of a project and put it back. It's free on every plan.
How do I open it?
From the Version history button in the editor toolbar. It opens as two panes: the list of entries on one side, and the selected entry on the other with its own poster frame and marks on the shots it changed.
What gets recorded?
Deliberate changes to a video, one restore point per gesture. In the words the history uses:
- metadata edit — the shot fields you type by hand
- video metadata edit — the project-level ones
- transcript edit — including a speaker correction
- rename project and edit notes
- move to folder
- change shot detection, change minimum shot length, merge shots and split shot
That last group is the one people are surprised by. Changing detection sensitivity on a finished board rewrites every shot boundary in it, and it's captured, so it can be put back.
One gesture is one point, not one point per shot. A change written across forty shots arrives as one request and becomes one entry with one undo — exactly as it felt when you made it.
Can I just press undo?
Yes. Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows) reverts the most recent restore point straight after you make it, without opening anything, and pressing it again walks back another step. Shift+Cmd+Z (or Ctrl+Y) redoes.
While you're mid-edit inside a text field, the key belongs to that field's own undo, which is what you'd want.
Does looking at an old version change anything?
No. Previewing a version is worked out in memory and thrown away. Nothing is written until you click Restore this version.
Is restoring itself undoable?
Yes. Restoring records the state you had first, then writes the snapshot back — so the way out is the point it just made.
How do I tell my edits from an assistant's?
By the badge. When a connected AI assistant writes something it goes through the same path your own edits do, so it lands in version history tagged as the assistant's rather than yours. You can find exactly those entries and roll back exactly those.
You can also just ask the assistant what it changed — it reads the same history.
What isn't covered?
- AI Autofill runs. Autofill writes directly and creates no restore point, so there's nothing here to roll back. Its guard is Only fill empty fields and reviewing a small run before widening one. Don't treat version history as a safety net for it.
- Imports. Bringing a video in isn't an edit gesture.
- Your media files. Version history stores what you told StoryFolder about a video — the metadata, the transcript, the titles and notes, the folder, and the shot-detection settings that determine the cut. It is not a backup.