Working Together in Real Time

When multiple people open the same shared project, Wayaframe connects them in a live session. You can see who is online, watch their cursors move across the canvas, follow their playhead position, and have your edits sync automatically without conflicts.

Who is online

Collaborator avatars appear in the editor header when other people are working in the same project. Each collaborator is assigned a unique color that stays consistent throughout the session.

• Avatars stack horizontally, showing up to three at a time. If more people are online, a +N badge shows the overflow count.
• Hover over an avatar to see the collaborator's name, email, and permission level.
• Avatars only appear for collaborators who have the project open right now.

Live cursors

When a collaborator moves their mouse over the canvas, their cursor appears on your screen in real time. Each cursor shows the collaborator's name and is colored with their assigned presence color.

Cursors are only visible when the collaborator is interacting with the canvas area. When they move to a different part of the editor (like the timeline or a sidebar panel), their cursor disappears from your canvas.

Following a collaborator

Click a collaborator's avatar in the header to follow them. While following, your editor syncs to their session:

• Playhead: your playhead moves to match their position, so you see the same frame they are looking at.
• Viewport: your canvas zoom and pan position syncs to theirs, so you see the same area of the canvas.

This is useful during review sessions when you want to see exactly what someone else is looking at, or when walking through changes together.

Click the avatar again to stop following. Following also stops automatically if you interact with the timeline or canvas, or if the collaborator you are following goes offline.

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During playback, presence updates are only broadcast when someone is following you. This keeps network traffic low when you are previewing on your own.

Real-time editing

All edits in a shared project sync automatically between collaborators. Wayaframe uses conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) so that concurrent edits from different people merge cleanly without overwriting each other's work.

This covers:

• Timeline changes: adding, removing, moving, and resizing clips.
• Clip properties: transforms, styling, effects, and animation settings.
• Project settings: resolution, frame rate, background color, and default styles.
• Track changes: adding, removing, reordering, and renaming tracks.
• Markers and groups: timeline markers and clip grouping.

Edits appear on other collaborators' screens within moments of being made. There is no save-and-refresh cycle, changes flow continuously.

Multiple sessions

Each browser tab or desktop window counts as a separate session. If you have the same project open in two tabs, both sessions show up in the presence system. Other collaborators may see multiple entries for you if you have multiple sessions active.

Each project supports up to 30 concurrent sessions.

Turning live collaboration off

If you prefer to work without seeing other people's presence and cursors, you can disable live collaboration for a specific project. Open the Share panel and turn off Live collaboration in your personal preferences at the bottom.

This hides the presence layer, cursors, and avatar stack in the editor. Your access to the project is not affected, and your edits still sync to the cloud. Other collaborators will not see your presence either.

What to read next

• How to Share a Project with Your Team
• Leaving Comments and Feedback