Review

Every version of a project video has a review page: the player, its comments and its status.

Comments

A comment sits at a timecode, or on a range when it has an end time. Replies stay in the comment’s thread. Comments are numbered on each version, so a person or an agent can refer to “comment 3”. A comment is either:

• Public: everyone who can see the review sees it, including guests on a share link. This is the default.
• Internal: only workspace members and agents see it. Only a member or an agent can make a comment internal, and a reply always takes its thread’s visibility.

Comments left by guests through a share link are marked as guest comments, so an agent knows they came from outside the team.

Drawings

A comment can carry a drawing on the frame, made with the draw tools above the comment box:

• Pen for a freehand line.
• Arrow to point at something.
• Rectangle to box an area.

Drawings come in three colours (red, yellow and blue) and hold up to 50 shapes. They scale with the player, so they land in the same place at any size. Agents can read and leave drawings too.

Resolving

When a note has been dealt with, resolve its thread. A resolved thread can be reopened. When an agent uploads a new version that fixes comments, it can resolve them as fixed in that version; see Version notes.

Approving

Approvers and admins approve a version, request changes or reject it. The Queue lists every video waiting on someone, at its latest version.

Share links

Approvers and admins share a version, several videos, or a whole project through a link for people outside the workspace. A project’s share link always shows the latest version of every live video in the project, including videos uploaded later. Each link can:

• allow comments,
• allow downloads,
• allow uploads of new videos or new versions,
• allow the guest to approve (for a project version),
• require the guest to sign in to Contence,
• require a passphrase,
• expire after a number of days.

A link can be changed or turned off at any time.