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For production houses

Your clients review each cut where the work is, your freelancers see the same notes, and everyone can see which version was approved. You keep editing in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

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A Shotread review of version 3 of a launch cut: the player, a timeline of marked moments, and comments pinned to timecodes.
A review in Shotread's sample workspace. Sample data.

What gets in the way

What post-production people describe in public discussions we read while planning Shotread:

Changes arrive everywhere

One change turns into several emails, a few chat messages and a conversation nobody wrote down.

Which master is final?

Versions pile up, and nobody is sure which file the client approved.

Seats for every freelancer

The team changes with each project, and a paid seat for every editor and producer who joins adds up.

Notes retyped into the edit

Client notes live in one tool and the edit in another, so someone copies them across by hand.

How Shotread handles it

Clients open a review link, type a name if they want, and comment on the exact frame or mark a region of it. No account and no password. Your team's internal notes stay apart from the client's, and a passphrase, an expiry date and a download switch are set per link.

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What a client sees from a review link: the cut with a watermark of the reviewer's name, and buttons to approve, approve with changes or request changes.
What the client sees from the link. Sample data.

Every version, and which one is final

Each version keeps who uploaded it and when. Notes still open on an earlier version show on the newest one, for your team and on the client's page. Your team compares two versions side by side, with an overlay wipe or the difference, scrubbers in step.

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The version stack of a cut with three versions and their uploaders, and two versions playing side by side with synced scrubbers.
Three versions of a cut, two side by side. Sample data.

Approval on record, then delivery

The client approves, approves with changes or requests changes, with named approvers in the order you set. After sign-off the client downloads the final file from the same link, and the record shows who approved which version and when. Each client's portal keeps the approval history and every delivered file.

Client notes in your editor

Export the client's comments as markers for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, or as a CSV file, at the version's own frame rate (23.976, 29.97 and 59.94 included). Your editors keep working where they work.

Masters a browser cannot play

Upload a ProRes master and the uploader's browser makes a light 1080p review copy for the client; downloads stay on the original. Files go from the browser straight to storage, never through Shotread's servers.

A menu for a production house

When you set up, choose Production house. The menu keeps to Home, Calendar, Content, Reviews, Library, Clients, Workflow and Agency Operations, and an item opens on its review. Show all tools brings everything else back.

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Shotread Home in Production house mode: cuts waiting on you, counts by stage, and a short menu of production tools.
Home in Production house mode. Sample data.

What Shotread does not do yet

Notes by WhatsApp or email

Notes a client sends by WhatsApp or email are still copied into the review by hand.

Editor panels and Frame.io

The Premiere Pro and After Effects panel waits for Adobe's Exchange listing; marker files work today. The Frame.io connection waits for Adobe to approve Shotread's developer app.

Compare for clients, other formats

Guests and client viewers cannot compare versions yet. DNxHR, MXF, HDR and 4K review copies are not supported; Shotread warns before a DNxHR upload.

The full list

Every Frame.io, Ziflow, Filestage and other review tool feature, with its checked status: switching from video review tools.

Coming from another tool?

Pick the tool your team uses today to see what carries over, feature by feature.

See it for yourself

Shotread is in private beta. Ask for access, take the product tour, or ask us to walk you through it with your own workflow in mind.

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