In summary:
- PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s Clipchamp video editor in Windows 11 now mandates OneDrive for saving and editing video projects.
- This change significantly impacts users who prefer local storage, as locally saved projects become uneditable archives that cannot be modified.
- New Clipchamp projects automatically sync to OneDrive accounts, though media files within projects may not always require cloud synchronization.
Microsoft is changing how Clipchamp—the built-in free video editor for Windows 11—works. The program now requires video projects to be saved to Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service in order to continue editing them, reports Windows Latest.
Previously, users could save their project files locally on their computer. If you choose to store them locally now, the projects are archived instead, meaning they can no longer be opened in edit mode. To continue working on them, they must first be saved to OneDrive.
In practice, this change means that Clipchamp no longer functions fully without OneDrive synchronization. New projects created in the app are now automatically saved to the user’s OneDrive account.
According to Microsoft, the media files themselves (such as video clips and images) don’t necessarily need to be synced to the cloud.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Viktor Eriksson, Contributor, PCWorld
Viktor writes news and reports for our sister sites, M3 and PC för Alla. He is passionate about technology and is on the ball with the latest product releases and the hottest talking points in the consumer tech industry.