Managing sessions

Every time you work with CoDirector, you're working inside a session. A session is a continuous conversation — your instructions, CoDirector's responses, and the edits it applied all form a shared context that CoDirector can refer back to throughout the exchange.

Understanding sessions helps you get more accurate results and gives you control over when to carry context forward versus when to start completely fresh.

What a session is

Within a session, CoDirector remembers what's been said and done. That means you can use natural follow-up instructions — "make the outro a bit longer," "actually, undo that last change," or "do the same thing to the second clip" — and CoDirector knows exactly what you're referring to. The longer a session, the richer the context CoDirector has to work with.

A session is tied to your project. Your session history is stored per project, so returning to a project brings back the sessions you had for that specific video.

Starting a new session

Click the New Session button — the + circle icon in the top toolbar of the CoDirector panel — to clear the current session and start fresh. The conversation history is cleared and CoDirector begins without any memory of what was discussed before.

Importantly, starting a new session does not undo any edits already applied to your timeline. Your video remains exactly as it is — only the conversation context is reset.

Use a new session when you're moving to a genuinely new editing goal, or when the conversation has become long enough that you'd prefer a clean slate.

Browsing session history

Click the Session History icon in the top toolbar — the clock/history icon — to open the session list. This panel shows all your past sessions for the current project, listed chronologically with the session title and the date it was created. Sessions are loaded 20 at a time, with a Show More button at the bottom if there are additional ones.

Restoring a past session

Click any session in the history list to load it. The full conversation from that session is restored into the CoDirector panel, and you can continue right where you left off. CoDirector picks up with full awareness of everything that was previously said in that session.

This is useful if you stepped away mid-edit, closed the tab, or want to revisit an approach you were exploring earlier.

Tip: Keep related edits within a single session rather than starting new ones for each instruction. CoDirector's awareness of what it has already done makes follow-up instructions significantly more accurate. Start a new session when you're shifting to a new editing goal or working on a different phase of the video — not just because you've sent a few messages.