Who can edit video on Air?
👨👩👧👦 Supported on any Air plan
✏️ Anyone that has edit access to a workspace, library, or board
Air lets you trim, split, and extract sub-clips directly from your video assets without needing external editing software or downloading raw footage. Whether you want to pull bite-sized highlights from long-form base footage or create organized clips for a campaign board, video editing tools in Air keep your creative workflows moving fast.
Who can edit videos
Video editing in Air is supported on all workspace plans. To trim or split video assets, you must have edit access in the workspace or board where the asset lives. Users with view-only access can play videos and view existing versions, but cannot access Edit mode.
Entering video edit mode
To start trimming or splitting a video file:
Open your video file from any board to open the Asset Detail Screen.
Select Edit in the top toolbar to switch into video Edit mode.
Orient yourself to the editing workspace:
The preview player sits in the center showing real-time playback.
The timeline displays video frames with timecodes across the bottom.
The playhead moves along the timeline to indicate your exact timestamp.
The zoom controls (fit, zoom slider, plus/minus icons) allow you to expand the timeline for frame-accurate selections.
Splitting and saving a clip
You can quickly split base footage at a specific timestamp and save that exact excerpt directly to a board:
Scrub the playhead to the frame where you want to make a cut, or drag the segment handles to define a range.
Right-click the selected segment to open the context menu and select Split, or click the split icon directly above the timeline.
To export a single segment immediately without altering the rest of your video, right-click the segment and select Save clip to Board. Choose your destination board to save the standalone sub-clip.
Working with multiple segments
You can perform repeated splits across the timeline to create several independent segments from one piece of raw footage.
Use the timeline zoom slider to expand the view when you need precise in and out points. Each split section behaves as an independent segment that you can select, trim, or delete.
Saving the edit
When you finish splitting and trimming your video, select Save edit in the top-right corner. Choose from the available save options depending on how you want to manage your assets:
Save as a new version: Adds the edited cut on top of the original asset in a version stack. This keeps iterations together and preserves the base footage in the version history without duplicating assets.
Create a new asset: Creates an independent, standalone video asset in your current board while leaving the original video file untouched.
Save as separate clips: Saves each cut segment on your timeline as an individual new asset in your workspace, ideal for batch-generating social cutdowns from raw footage.
Caution: Saving edits as a new version will update what workspace members see as the current preview for the asset, but you can always access or restore previous versions from the version stack. To exit Edit mode at any time without applying changes, click Cancel in the top toolbar.
For advanced post-production needs such as multi-track audio mixing, transitions, or complex color grading, see our guide on Using Air for Adobe Premiere Pro to connect your Air assets directly to your external timeline.