Working on the same video, at the same time
Most video editors assume one person. Open a project, make your changes, save. It works right up until somebody else has the same project open, and then it quietly stops working: two people edit, both save, and whoever saved second wins. The first person's work is simply gone, with nothing on screen to say so.
That problem arrives sooner than people expect, and not only on teams. If you start an AI agent on a project and carry on trimming while it works, that is two editors in one timeline. The agent keeps running after you close the tab, by design, so it is a genuinely ordinary thing to do.
Here is what happens in Vidmoat instead.
Your work is never quietly overwritten
This is the part that matters most, and it is the part you will hopefully never notice.
Every time you save, Vidmoat checks whether the project has changed since you opened it. If somebody else, or an agent, has written to it in the meantime, your save is refused rather than applied on top of theirs. Nothing of yours is sent, and nothing of theirs is lost.
You are told what happened in plain words, the project reloads onto the current version, and the badge in the header says Reloaded rather than Unsaved, because the document on screen is saved. It is just not only yours any more.
Your own changes are still in the history, so you can step back through them and reapply what you want. Nobody is left holding a copy of a timeline they cannot get back to.
You can see who else is in the project
Open a project somebody else is working in and their initials appear in the header, in their own colour. Hover to see who they are, roughly where in the timeline they are working, and what they are doing: three clips selected, exporting, or an agent run under way.
It updates every few seconds and disappears when they leave. If somebody closes their laptop or loses signal, they drop out of the room within about twenty seconds rather than lingering as a ghost who appears to be editing a section nobody is touching.
When you are the only person there, which is most of the time, nothing shows at all. An empty row of avatars telling you that you are alone is not information.
Agents show up as agents
An AI agent working on your project appears in the room the same way a person does, with a dashed outline instead of a solid one.
That distinction is deliberate. An agent is not a colleague you can ask to wait, and mistaking one for a person at a glance leads to the wrong decision about whether to start editing the same section.
While an agent run is writing to the timeline, the editor tells you and holds off on your own saves rather than letting the two of you interleave. When it finishes, you get the document back.
Coming next: claiming a section
Seeing each other prevents the worst outcome. It does not prevent the annoying one, which is two people spending an hour on the same thirty seconds and finding out afterwards.
So the next piece is claiming: saying out loud that you are working on 0:12 to 0:48, or on the captions track, so the rest of the team can see it against your name before they start there.
It will be a sign on a door rather than a lock. If you need to get into a section somebody has claimed, you can. Anyone who has used a tool that locks files knows what happens otherwise: people start working outside the tool, and the lock ends up protecting nothing.
For AI agents it works the other way round, and it has to. An agent gets a claim it physically cannot write outside of, which is what will let several of them work on one video at once: one on the cut, one on the grade, one on the music, none of them able to touch each other's work.
Every change is attributed
Vidmoat records who made each change to a project, whether that was you, a teammate, an agent, or an expert you handed the project to. A timestamp alone cannot answer the question people actually ask when a timeline looks wrong, which is not when did this change but who changed it.
The record is append-only. Nothing edits it after the fact, including us.
Who can be in a project
Personal projects are yours alone. Nobody else appears in them because nobody else can open them.
On a team plan, a project that belongs to the organisation is open to members of that organisation, and those are the people who show up in the room, can see each other, and share its history.
Handing a project to an expert works differently on purpose: while they hold it, they are the only writer, and you get it back with a full record of what changed and the option to revert. That is a deliberate exception to everything above, because paying somebody to work on your video and then editing underneath them helps nobody.
What this means in practice
If you work alone, nothing changes except that starting an agent and carrying on editing is now safe.
If you work with somebody else, you can both have the project open. You will see each other, you will see roughly where the other person is, and if you happen to save at the same moment the second save is refused and reloaded rather than applied over the top. The worst case is redoing a minute of work, and you find out immediately rather than a week later.
None of it needs turning on.
Frequently asked
Can two people edit the same Vidmoat project at once?
Yes. Both of you can have it open, you will see each other in the header, and neither of you can silently overwrite the other. If you both save at the same moment, the second save is refused and reloaded onto the current version rather than replacing it.
What happens if my save is refused?
You are told in plain words, the project reloads onto the current version, and the badge says Reloaded. Your own changes stay in the editing history so you can step back and reapply anything you still want.
Do I lose work if somebody else saves first?
No. Your changes are not sent, so nothing of yours reaches the server, and nothing of theirs is overwritten. That is the entire point of refusing rather than merging blindly.
Can I edit while an AI agent is working on the same project?
The agent appears in the room with a dashed outline and the editor tells you a run is under way. While it is writing, your own saves are held rather than interleaved, and you get the document back when it finishes.
Can I see who changed something?
Yes. Vidmoat records who made each change to a project, including agents and experts, in an append-only history.
Do I need a team plan for this?
Only to have other people in your projects. The safety around agent runs and multiple tabs applies on every plan, and there is nothing to switch on.