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Version History

Every export of a video is kept as a version (versions are created on export, not on preview recordings from screenci preview, which only refresh the live preview). One version is always the selected one: it is what a public URL serves and what embeds display. Version history lets you keep older renders around, compare them, and roll back by selecting a previous one, without re-recording.

Every plan keeps the 5 most recent non-selected versions per language (plus the selected one), so you always have a recent history to compare against and roll back to.

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What a version is

A version is one finished export of a video: the encoded media, its thumbnail, and the exact render options, narration, and overlays used to produce it. Because each export is preserved, you can change something in Editor, export again, and still fall back to the previous look if you prefer it. Versions are listed in the editor sidebar’s Exported group.

Versions are tracked per language: an English render and a German render of the same video each have their own independent history.

Selecting a version

The selected version is the one served at the video’s public URL and shown in embeds. Open a version in the Exported group and choose Serve at the public URL, or enable Auto-select latest version so the newest finished export is always served automatically. Serving an older version is an instant rollback: no re-recording, no re-rendering.

Retention

Every plan keeps the 5 most recent non-selected versions per language so you always have a recent history to compare against and roll back to. When that count is exceeded, the oldest non-selected versions are pruned first; the selected version is never pruned.

Newly rendered versions have a short grace period (about an hour) during which they are never pruned, even beyond the kept count, so a burst of quick re-renders is not deleted out from under you. Once they age past the grace period they are swept automatically back down to the kept count. To keep a render forever, download it via the authenticated screenci info download URLs.