How to Edit a Video Together Online (Remote Team Guide)

Can two people edit the same video at the same time?

Yes, but only in some editors, and "together" means very different things depending on the tool. There are three common setups:

A review tool is a fourth thing. Frame.io, for example, is built for watching an export and leaving frame-accurate comments. That's useful, but nobody edits the timeline there.

This guide is about the third setup: two or more people working on one live timeline from different places, without shipping hard drives or uploading every clip.

Why is editing video together so hard?

Because video files are huge, and most editors were built for one person on one machine.

Even Adobe, which has had Team Projects in Premiere for years, says in its Team Projects help page that "each collaborator needs access to the same media", and that customers still ship hard drives or use cloud storage services to get it there. So before anyone edits, someone has to get hundreds of gigabytes to everyone else.

The second problem is conflict. When two people change a project separately, someone has to decide whose version wins. That's how you end up with final_v7_REAL.mp4.

A live editor solves the second problem by merging every change as it happens, the way a shared document does. The first problem, media, depends on how the tool handles files. More on that below.

How do you edit a video together in Takejam?

Takejam is a browser video editor. On the Team plan, everyone in the workspace edits the same timeline live, in Chrome or Edge on Windows, Mac or Linux. Nobody installs anything. Here are the exact steps.

1. Create a team workspace

1. Sign in at app.takejam.com.
2. On your projects page, open your account menu and choose New team workspace. Give it a name and click Create.
3. Open Workspace settings → Plan & usage and upgrade the workspace to Team. It's $8 per seat a month, or $72 per seat a year, with a minimum of 2 seats.

2. Invite your people with the right role

1. In Workspace settings → Members, type a teammate's email.
2. Pick a role and click Invite. They get an email with a join link, and the link is copied for you too, in case the email doesn't arrive.

Choose roles carefully. They decide who can change the edit:

A good default for a small team: editors for the people who cut, commenter for the producer or the person who signs off. They can pin notes all day without accidentally moving a clip.

3. Open the same project

1. Create the project in the team workspace and import your media.
2. Click Share in the editor's top bar. This copies the project link.
3. Send it to your teammate. They open it, or paste it into Paste a project link to join on their projects page.

Now you're both on one timeline. You see each other's playheads and edits live. Each person has their own undo, so pressing Ctrl+Z only undoes your own work, never your teammate's.

4. Get the footage to everyone (without uploading it)

Takejam doesn't upload your media to its servers. Your files stay on your computer, and only the edit itself is synced.

When a teammate opens a project that uses clips they don't have, the Media panel tells them how many files "aren't on this computer yet". Those files are copied straight from the computer of the person who has them, as soon as both of you have the project open. If your teammate already has a copy (say, from a shared drive), they click Link missing files… and Takejam matches them by name or size.

This is the honest limit: a direct copy needs the person with the file to be online with the project open. If they're asleep in another time zone, either put the footage on a shared drive first or ask them to open the project for a few minutes before they log off.

5. Review, fix and approve in one place

Open the Review tab on the left of the editor.

1. Press N (or click Pin a note) and click the frame. The note is pinned to that exact moment and spot.
2. Teammates reply, fix it, and click Resolve.
3. Split the edit into scenes and mark each one Review, Fix or Approved, so everyone knows what's done.

Every note has a link to its exact moment, which you can paste into Slack or email. And because the Team plan keeps saved versions for 30 days, any change can be rolled back.

6. Send the client a review link

Clients shouldn't need an account, and they shouldn't see your editing tools. In the Review tab, click Share a video for client review. Takejam exports the current edit and copies a link. The client opens it, types their name, pauses anywhere and leaves a comment. Their comments appear in your Review tab at the exact second they're about. The link works for 30 days, and you can turn it off early.

This is the one time a video leaves your computer: the exported review copy is uploaded so the client can watch it. When you turn the link off, that video is deleted and the comments stay with you.

Can an AI edit alongside the team?

Yes, and this is where a live editor really earns its keep. Anyone on the team with the editor role can connect Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini to the workspace through Takejam's connector at https://api.takejam.com/mcp (setup guides for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini).

The AI joins the timeline like another teammate. Everyone sees what it changes, as it changes it. Two things make this safe for a team:

• Approved scenes are off limits. Once a scene is marked Approved, the AI leaves it alone.
• It can work through your notes. In the Review tab, click Send to AI. Takejam turns every open note and the scene status into one prompt you paste into your AI. It fixes what it can and replies to the notes, and a person checks the result.

A real example: the producer leaves eight notes in the evening ("caption too small at 0:14", "cut the pause at 1:02"). In the morning the editor clicks Send to AI, the AI handles the simple ones, and the editor spends their time on the two notes that need taste.

How does Takejam compare with other ways to edit together?

Prices and features below come from each company's own pages, checked on 3 November 2026.

Sources: Adobe Team Projects, WeVideo pricing, Frame.io pricing.

To be fair: Premiere is the stronger tool if your team already lives in Adobe and has fast shared storage. Frame.io is excellent at review and pairs with almost any editor. Takejam fits teams that want to edit in a browser, keep footage off the cloud, and let an AI handle the routine fixes.

What can't you do?

• No phone editing. Takejam runs on computers in Chrome or Edge. Clients can watch review links on a phone.
• Live editing needs the Team plan. The Free and Creator plans are for one person. Free still gives you 1080p export with no watermark and 50 AI edits a day, so you can learn the editor before you bring the team in.
• Media copies need someone online. As above, a teammate's file copies only while they have the project open.
• The review link is a video, not the project. Clients comment on the exported edit. Export a new link after big changes.

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