Patent ID: 8768924

Claim:
A method comprising: accessing a published first media project stored by a storage machine communicatively coupled to a client device, among a plurality of client devices, the first media project specifying a first set of published edits to a media frame stored by a source machine communicatively coupled to the client device; receiving a request from the client device to publish an unpublished second media project that specifies a second set of sandboxed edits to the media frame, the second set of sandboxed edits being accessible by the client device but no other device among the plurality of client devices; accessing the unpublished second media project that specifies the second set of sandboxed edits to the media frame; determining, by a processor and in response to the receiving of the request to publish the unpublished second media project, that the second set of sandboxed edits to the media frame is unobtainable from the first set of published edits to the media frame; and communicating a notification regarding compatibility of the second set of sandboxed edits to the media frame with the first set of published edits to the media frame.