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Dr.Flo42
Dr.Flo42
Participant
April 23, 2026

Videos nicht editierbar in Adobe Express!

  • April 23, 2026
  • 2 replies
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Issue Summary

After a recent update, existing Adobe Express videos are automatically converted into “Presentations,” which significantly limits video editing functionality.

Product & Version

Adobe Express (Web App) – latest version (April 2026 update)

Platform

Web browser (desktop)

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Adobe Express (web).
  2. Open a video file created before the latest update.
  3. Notice the file is now treated as a Presentation.
  4. Use File → Convert to Adobe Express file.
  5. Open the timeline and try to edit multiple scenes.

Expected Result

  • Existing video files remain videos after the update.
  • All scenes and layers are visible and editable together in the timeline (as before).
  • Any file-type conversion should require user confirmation (or offer an opt-out).

Actual Result

  • Existing videos were converted into Presentations automatically.
  • After conversion back, only one scene at a time can be edited in the timeline.
  • Normal multi-scene video editing is not possible.

Additional Notes

  • New videos created after the update work as expected.
  • The issue only affects existing video files, suggesting a problem with the Presentation → Video conversion.
  • This change impacts all existing videos and disrupts professional workflows.

    2 replies

    Rose DV
    Community Manager
    Rose DVCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 23, 2026

    Hi ​@Dr.Flo42,

    Thanks for the detailed report- I’m sorry this has disrupted your workflow. I can understand how frustrating it is to lose that timeline control on existing projects.

    I checked with our product team, and they shared that with the recent update (Click Order), older Express presentation-style files are automatically upgraded when opened. In some cases, this can affect projects that included video content within those presentations, which may be why your files are now behaving this way.

    With this new format, timeline editing across multiple scenes isn’t available inside presentations, which is why you're seeing one scene at a time.

    You can also find more on how presentations now work here:
    https://helpx.adobe.com/express/web/documents-and-presentations/control-animation-playback-with-click-order.html

    I know this is a big change, especially for existing content. I’ll make sure your feedback is shared.

    Rose

    Dr.Flo42
    Dr.Flo42Author
    Participant
    April 24, 2026

    Hi, thanks for the quick reply.
    One more thing to clarify: all the files that are affected were NOT presentatios before the update. They were normal Video-Files with animations and several scenes. I  do not work with presentations (yet) ;-)

     

    About your questions:

    1. yes after the re-format to an Express-Document, I can only edit one scene at a time, see screenshot:

      All files that were regular video-files before the update, look this way.

    2. I tried your idea and noticed another issue:
      The audio-track in all (!) original videos is missing!! They do not contain the original audio-Track that spanned across all scenes. Probably got erased when the system converted all files to presentations.
    3. Third issue: I cannot copy and paste multiple scenes from the corrupted video-files into a new file. I can only copy-paste single scenes and above that, it creates the same issue in the new file:

      Hence, I can only edit single scenes in the new video file as well! note: this is no presentation, this is an Express standard file!

     

    Please communicate to the dev-team that file-format have to stay as is during an update!

    I have to explore now how to edit the video-files completely from scratch. This is extremely time-consuming and will delay all our projects - we have 20 videos in the pipeline. I will communicate this with my superior and they have to decide if we still use your product or switch to something else…

    Personally, I like Adobe’s approach to have everything under one hood and enable multiple editing workflows in one environment. But changes/updates that corrupt this workflow make it hard on users.

     

    Sorry for the long reply. I hope you understand.

    Dr.Flo42
    Dr.Flo42Author
    Participant
    April 22, 2026

    Same here. The problem is, that AE automatically converted Videos into “Presentations”. 

    When you click on File → convert to Adobe Express file you can at least edit the timeline.
     

    HOWEVER: the timeline can only be edited for one scene at a time!
    This is a huge error, because it disables viewing or editing several scenes - which is crucial for any editing and a basic function.

    Adobe has to fix this ASAP. This is a crucial function for us as corporate customer. 


    Correction, 22. April 2026, 10.42 AM UTC+2: I have zeroed in on the problem. If you create a new video, the scene-editing works fine. You can add scenes, and the editing view shows all the scenes and layers.
    With EXISTING files, the issue persists. Editing is only possible for one scene at a time. So the transformation-function → Presentation to AE-Video is buggy. Please Fix ASAP.

    Addendum: all (!) existing videos were tranformed into presentations by the last update. This should not happen, at least not with an opt-out function before these changes are made. Software-Engineering 101 imho...

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