How to use live review in Dropbox Replay

Updated Jun 04, 2024

Dropbox Replay is available to all Dropbox users on dropbox.com. The Dropbox Replay Add-On is a paid feature available to customers on Dropbox Plus, Essentials, Professional, Standard, Business, Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise.

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.

See 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 dropbox.com.
Click the grid icon in the top right.
Click Replay from the menu that appears.
- Dropbox Replay will open in a new tab.
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 the gear icon to set a password or manage who can download your file.
- Note: Downloads are disabled by default for people with View only access.
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 top-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 top-right corner, indicated by [x] watching.

Exporting comments from Replay

You can export comments in the following formats:

XML
FCP XML
JSON
CSV
CSV (condensed)
Plain text
Avid Media Composer text

To export comments from Replay

Log in to dropbox.com.
Click the grid icon in the top right.
Click Replay from the menu that appears.
- Dropbox Replay will open in a new tab.
Open the Replay project you’d like to export comments from.
In the Comments panel on the right, click the Export comments dropdown beside Comments.
Select the format you want to export the comments in.

The Dropbox Replay and Avid Pro Tools integration also allows you to take comments from a review session and export them directly into your Pro Tools project.

Note: You can also export comments from the Replay app.

To import comments into Avid Media Composer

If you export comments from Replay as an Avid Media Composer text file, you can import them into Media Composer.

Open Media Composer.
Click Tools.
Select Markers.
Right click in the Markers box that appears, then select Import Markers.
Find the Replay file you downloaded, click on it, then click Open.

You can now review any general comments, timestamp comments, and timestamp range comments from Replay within Media Composer.

Note: You won't be able to see replies or multi-line comments when you import comments into Media Composer. You'll only be able to see the initial comment.

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