History

The History tab on the right sidebar's rail lists every edit you have made since opening the file, oldest first, newest last, each with its name: Add edit at playhead, Delete clips, Effects, Captions…

1. 1.Make a few edits0:00
2. 2.Open History and click an earlier step0:01
3. 3.Click the last one to bring the rest back0:04

Description

The AI trailer in Edit. Three edits are made: the KA-POW shot is cut at the playhead twice and a piece of it deleted. The History tab lists them, newest last; clicking the first goes back to just after it, the later two dimmed, and clicking the last brings them back.

• Click a step to go back to just after it: every later step is undone and shown dimmed.
• Click a dimmed step to bring the steps up to it back.
• Opened, at the top, goes all the way back to how the file opened.
• Making a new edit after going back drops the dimmed steps, as undo does.

It is the same history ⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z step through, one step at a time. In a file others are editing live, undo steps through your own changes only, so the list is not shown there: use ⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z.