How to use live review in Dropbox Replay
The information in this article applies to users with Dropbox Replay and the Dropbox Replay Add-On.
You can start a live review session in Dropbox Replay to review audio and video files with collaborators in real-time. During a live review session, you can comment directly on the frame, as well as see what others are commenting.
If you start a live review session for a video file, you and your collaborators can also draw on the frame to highlight visual elements and see what others are drawing. Anyone in the live review session can control audio or video playback.
Learn how to easily collaborate and review videos with Dropbox Replay.
How to start a live review session
To start a live review session in Replay:
- Log in to replay.dropbox.com.
- Open the audio or video file you’d like to review.
- Click Start live review in the top-right corner.
A note will appear at the bottom of your screen, notifying you that a live session has begun.
How to share a live review session
To share your file and invite collaborators to your live review session:
- Start a live review session.
- Click Share in the top-right corner.
- Next to People with this link can, select view and comment or view only.
- Click Manage settings to set a password or manage who can download your file.
- Note: Downloads are disabled by default.
- If you select view and comment, enter the email addresses of the collaborators you’d like to invite, then click Send. You can also click Copy link, then paste the link where you’d like to share it.
- If you select view only, select the file version you’d like to share, enter the email addresses of the collaborators you’d like to invite, then click Send. You can also click Copy link, then paste the link where you’d like to share it.
Collaborators can leave a live review session at any time by clicking Leave in the upper right. They can still post comments and drawings outside of a live review session as long as they have comment permissions for the file.
You can see how many people are currently in your live review session in the upper right corner, indicated by [x] watching.
Adding editor-only comments during a live review session
If a project was created by someone with the Replay Add-On, it’s possible to add editor-only comments during a live review session. This allows Dropbox project teams to add real-time comments to a Replay file without these conversations being visible to clients or other stakeholders.
Editor-only comments can only be added or viewed by people with edit access to the project or a project owner.
Notes:
- Editor-only comments have a padlock icon in the bottom right and a different background color to differentiate them from public comments.
- Editor-only comments can only be added to projects created by someone with a Replay Add-On, but editors don’t need to have an add-on to leave or review editor-only comments.
