I Added a Queued Video Text Overlay Workflow to Reel Quick

Project repo: ronin1770/reel-quick I recently worked on a backend improvement in Reel Quick that solved a practical workflow problem around text overlays on videos. Instead of coupling overlay editing directly with processing, I moved the feature to a two-step queued workflow . What I changed I introduced two separate backend actions: POST /videos/{video_id}/text-overlays Saves or merges text overlay items for a video. POST /enqueue/text-overlay Queues processing only when the user is actually ready. Why I changed it The old approach risked a few common problems: processing could start before all overlays were finalized repeated edits could create duplicate overlay records there was no clean way to track queued, running, completed, or failed jobs By separating save from process , the flow became more reliable for users and much easier to reason about on the backend. Key implementation decisions A few details mattered here: multiple overlays can be saved for a single video duplicate ove