Keep a shared video (save your own copy)

Turn a video shared with you into an independent copy you own — it survives whatever the original owner does.

A video shared with you is borrowed — it expires, and the owner can revoke it. If you want one for good, Keep saves your own independent copy that survives whatever the original owner later does.

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    Open the shared video

    Open a video someone shared with you directly, through a team you're in, or via a share link you opened while signed in.

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    Click Keep

    On the video page, click Keep. It only appears when you have borrowed access — never for videos you already own.

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    Pick where it lands

    A video shared with you directly becomes a personal copy you own. A video shared into a team becomes a copy owned by that team — if it was shared into several of your teams, you choose which one.

Keep vs transfer

Both leave you with an owned video, but they're not the same. A transfer moves the only copy — the original owner loses it and every other share is revoked. Keep leaves the original untouched: you both end up with an independent video.

It counts against your storage — but costs almost nothing

A kept video reuses the original's files, so there's no re-upload and no waiting for processing. It still counts against your storage (or the team owner's, for a team copy), the same way photo apps count a video you save to your own library.

Who can keep a video

Anyone with borrowed access: a direct-share recipient, a member of a team a video was shared into, or someone who opened a share link while signed in. If you're not signed in, you'll see Sign up to save instead — create a free account, then keep it.

Wait for full quality

Keep needs the full-resolution version to be ready. If the owner is still uploading the high-quality file, try again once it finishes.

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