Share an edit for review

A review link lets a client or a friend watch an edit and tell you what they think, without an account.

Turn the link on

1. Open the edit and choose Share.
2. Beside Anyone with the link, pick Can watch or Can comment.
3. Choose Copy link and send it however you like.

Can watch plays the edit and nothing more. Can comment adds a notes panel and an Approve button. Anyone who can edit the project can turn the link on, change it or set it to Off; once it’s off, the link says it isn’t working.

The link plays the cut you had open when you turned it on. If the project has several cuts and you’re looking at another one, the dialog says which cut the link plays, with Share this cut instead.

What reviewers see

The edit plays as it does in the editor’s preview. With Can comment, they pause on a moment, add their name and a note, and choose Post at that time. Each note marks the scrubber, and choosing a note jumps back to its moment.

People using the link see only the notes left through it, not your team’s.

Notes and approval

Notes come into the editor under Share → Notes on this edit, each at its time; choose one to jump there. Everyone on the project gets a notification for each note, and an email unless they’ve turned it off. See Notifications.

When a reviewer chooses Approve, the page and the Share dialog say Approved by and their name. If anyone changes the edit afterwards, the approval no longer counts and they’ll need to approve the new version. Pointing the link at another cut clears it too.

A link takes up to 30 notes and approvals an hour, so a busy link may ask people to try again a little later.