Sharing for review

Create a link from a finished clip (and, as more surfaces adopt it, from a finished film). Whoever holds the link can watch that version. You decide whether they can also comment and whether they can approve.

• One version, pinned. The link shows the exact file it was made for. Editing the clip afterwards and rendering again does not change what the link plays, so nobody is surprised by a cut they never saw. It also means the link opens that one file and nothing else in the project.
• It expires. Choose 3, 7, 14 or 30 days. After that the link says it expired, with the date, instead of failing blankly. Playback is held to the same deadline: a link with four minutes left hands out an address good for four minutes, not thirty.
• You can revoke it. See below for exactly what that does, and how fast.
• It is not an account. A link never grants editing and never shows the rest of the project. The address is a credential, so treat it like one — it is shown once when you create it; copy it then.
• The file itself is private. Your footage is not stored anywhere the public can read. Every time a reviewer's player asks for the video, we check the link before we hand over an address for it, and that address is good for minutes.

Revoking takes effect on the next request anyone makes — which is to say, at once for everything except a video that is already playing.

• The page stops immediately. Opening the link, reloading it, or starting the video again all fail from the moment you revoke, on every device, including one that had the page open.
• Comments and approvals stop immediately. A reviewer part-way through writing one cannot submit it after you revoke.
• Someone already watching can finish up to about fifteen more minutes. Their player is holding a short-lived address for that one file, and we let it run out rather than cut the stream mid-frame. It cannot be renewed: once it lapses, the film is closed to them.
• Revoking is not a recall. Anything a reviewer already downloaded or recorded is on their machine and stays there. No sharing tool can take that back, and we will not imply otherwise.

The feedback already given stays with you. Revoking removes access, not history.

The reviewer opens the address and gets the video, its shape and length, and the feedback so far. They type their name once. If you allowed comments, they can leave notes, optionally attached to the moment they are watching. If you allowed approval, they can approve the version or ask for changes, with a note.

An approval belongs to a version. If you edit the clip and render it again, decisions taken on the older render stop standing: the link list marks them, and the next reviewer is asked afresh. Nothing is deleted, so the history still reads honestly.