Sequence Locking

Last updated on Jun 24, 2025

Learn about Sequence Locking and how it allows offline editing for conflict-free video editing collaboration using Team Projects.

Sequence Locking is an important concept in video editing that helps maintain consistency and prevent conflicts when multiple editors are working on the same project. This feature is particularly useful in collaborative editing workflows.

While you perform edit operations, such as trim, move, delete, and more, on the locked sequence, other collaborators will have view-only access to earlier versions of the sequence until you publish your changes.

Sequence Locking also offers visual indicators to your collaborators in several panels that show who is editing the sequence and which changes have been published. Indications appear in the Timeline panel, Project panel, and Program Monitor.

Collaborators see your edits only once you publish. While you edit, the sequence is locked and view-only for your collaborators to avoid conflicts.

Editing your sequence locks the sequence just to you. Your collaborators now have view-only access and cannot do edit operations.

Publish changes and add a note to unlock the sequence.

The Up to date status shows that all changes are published, and no other edits are pending to sync. Another collaborator can start editing the sequence, initiating the Sequence Locking.

When you're editing a sequence, other collaborators can play, seek, or scrub through the sequence, duplicate the sequence, and even copy clips from that sequence.