Windows 11’s free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive
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In summary:
- PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s Clipchamp video editor in Windows 11 now requires OneDrive for saving and editing video projects.
- This change has a significant impact on users who prefer local storage, because locally saved projects become non-editable archives.
- New Clipchamp projects automatically sync with OneDrive accounts, although media files in projects don’t always require cloud syncing.
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, Windows Latest reports.
Previously, users could save their project files locally on their computer. If you choose to store them locally now, the projects are archived, 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 works fully without OneDrive syncing. 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 was originally published on our sister publication PC för Alla and has been translated and localized from Swedish.
