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Create your first workflow, run it on a video, and move clips toward posting.
Overlap is easiest to learn when you start with one simple workflow and one real video. This guide walks through the fastest path:
  1. Create and publish a workflow
  2. Drop in your first source video
  3. Review the clips and post them
If you want to publish directly from Overlap, connect your social accounts in Accounts before you schedule posts.

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1. Create your first workflow

Open Workflows from the left sidebar. This is where you manage every workflow in your workspace, review what is already live, and start a new one.
Current workflows list
Click New to open the workflow builder. For a first workflow, Manual Trigger is the simplest place to start. Begin with the empty builder, then click Manual Trigger to drop the trigger node onto the canvas. This is the fastest way to test with one source video before you move on to always-on sources like New YouTube Video, New Dropbox Video, or RSS Feed.
Empty workflow builder
Workflow builder with Manual Trigger added
As you build, think in three stages:
  • Trigger decides how the workflow starts
  • Editing defines what Overlap does to the content
  • Export decides what gets produced at the end
When the flow looks right, click Publish in the top-right corner to make the workflow ready to run.

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2. Drop in your first video

After you publish, return to Workflows and click your workflow from the list. This opens the workflow’s trigger page, which is where you drop in your first source video. If you started with Manual Trigger, you can paste a media URL, upload a file, or select a file from Dropbox. For a first pass, keep it simple: use one recording, webinar, interview, or podcast episode and let the workflow process it end to end. Once a run starts, Overlap surfaces the results back in Home under your projects and outgoing work so you can see new clips as they come in.
Workflow trigger page with upload and URL options
If you want a deeper walkthrough of triggers, nodes, and publishing states, continue with the full Workflows guide.

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3. Review clips and post

From the finished project, open the clips you want to keep and make any final edits you need. As clips move toward publishing, you can review scheduled posts in Social Calendar.
Social Calendar
Use this final pass to:
  • confirm the right account is selected
  • check the post copy
  • review the scheduled time
  • use Create Post when you want to add or schedule something manually
Once that looks good, your first workflow has gone all the way from setup to post-ready output.