Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is editing a video after final cut approval out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Video editing isn't a development discipline at all, and this holds whether or not the video appears somewhere on the site the dev team built.
A video embedded on the site — however it got there — sometimes prompts a client to ask the dev team for edits, on the assumption that whoever touches the site technically can also touch the video content itself. Those are unrelated skills: embedding and displaying a video correctly is development work; editing the video's actual content is not.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Video editing is outside a development engagement's scope regardless of where the video lives on the site — the dev team's job is making the video display and play correctly, not producing or re-cutting it.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — video editing is excluded outright as an unrelated discipline, even for a video the dev team embedded.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Editing the video itself isn't something we do — that's a video editing discipline separate from development. I can make sure whatever updated version you get re-embeds correctly on the site, but the actual editing needs to go to a video editor.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags video editing requests outside_scope on development contracts regardless of whether the video is technically part of the site the dev team built, since embedding a video and editing its content are unrelated skills — the explanation makes that distinction clear.