How series and scheduling work
A series is the recurring unit of the product, and its schedule is derived rather than drawn. You choose one publish time and a timezone; your plan decides how far apart the appointments fall. Understanding that division explains most of what people find surprising about when videos appear.
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What a series holds
One series carries a topic brief, a narrator language and voice, an art style, a caption style, optional background music, the platforms it publishes to, a publish time and a timezone. It is created at the moment your subscription starts, using the answers from setup, and it keeps running until you pause or delete it.
Every plan includes one active series per subscription. Running a second series concurrently means adding a series seat rather than moving up a tier — Pro does not include more series than Hobby, it includes more videos per day within the one series.
You pick the time; your plan picks the spacing
The publish time you set is the anchor. From there the scheduler steps forward by a fixed interval that comes from your plan, so the cadence is a property of the subscription rather than something you draw on a calendar.
- Hobby — 3 videos a week
- Appointments fall roughly every 56 hours, capped at 13 videos a month. Hobby is the one plan without priority rendering.
- Daily — 1 video a day
- One appointment every 24 hours, landing on your publish time, capped at 30 videos a month.
- Pro — 2 videos a day
- Appointments every 12 hours, so your publish time and twelve hours after it, capped at 60 videos a month.
Slots, and why videos are built early
Each appointment is a slot: a specific instant, computed in your series timezone, that one video is assigned to. The slot is fixed at the moment the video is created, and it is what the publisher aims at. That is why editing your publish time changes future videos rather than the one already built for tonight.
Work on a video starts at least six hours before its slot, and can start earlier when render capacity allows. Building ahead only changes when the file is ready — it never changes when it publishes, because the appointment travels with the video. A video finished twelve hours early still waits for its slot.
Only one video is ever created per slot per series, so a scheduler that runs twice cannot double-post, and a slot that has already been served is not revisited.
Why a post can land later than its slot
Three rules can move a publish later, and none of them can move it earlier.
- The night guard
- A post that is running significantly late is only allowed to land between 08:00 and 22:00 in your series timezone. If it becomes ready at three in the morning it waits for the next morning rather than publishing to a sleeping feed. Posts that are on time are never affected by this.
- Spacing between consecutive posts
- Two late posts to the same platform are separated by about 45 minutes so a backlog does not arrive as a burst. Again, a post hitting its own appointment on time is pinned exactly and is not spaced.
- Retries
- A post that fails for a temporary reason is retried on a widening curve over roughly two days, and every retry time is pulled back into the 08:00–22:00 window.
Pausing, deleting, and the difference
Pausing a series stops the scheduler creating new appointments, holds anything already queued, and leaves your subscription and your library untouched. Work that was in flight is deferred rather than destroyed, so resuming picks the series back up. This is the reversible option and the one to reach for.
Deleting a series archives it and discards its queued work — pending posts and unbuilt videos are dropped. Videos already published stay on your social accounts, because they belong to the platform at that point, and videos already in your library remain downloadable. Deleting a series does not cancel your subscription.
Editing a running series
Changes to a series apply from the next video onward, and the product deliberately pushes them down to work that is already queued but not yet built — so an art style changed this afternoon shows up in tonight’s video rather than tomorrow’s. What you cannot change is the interval: posting frequency is read from your plan and shown as a locked row, because changing it would break the quota it is derived from.
Common questions
Can I set different posting times for different days of the week?
No. A series takes one publish time and a timezone, and every appointment is derived by stepping forward from it at your plan’s interval. Pro’s two-a-day cadence, for example, is your publish time and twelve hours later, not two independently chosen times.
My video posted a couple of hours after the time I set. Why?
Something delayed it past its appointment — a retry, a render running long, or a platform holding it — and delayed posts are only released between 08:00 and 22:00 in your series timezone, spaced roughly 45 minutes apart. On-time posts are pinned to the exact appointment and are not subject to either rule.
What happens to queued videos when I pause a series?
They are held, not deleted, and the series stops producing new appointments. Resuming continues from there. Deleting the series is the destructive option: it discards queued work, though it leaves everything already published and everything already in your library alone.
Does upgrading my plan give me more series?
No. Every plan includes one active series; the tiers differ in how many videos that series produces and how far apart they land. A second concurrent series is an added seat rather than a tier upgrade.