Client video review for freelance editors

The usual routine is a transfer link or a Drive file, then feedback by email or chat. The client writes “the logo bit near the start needs to stay longer” and you go looking for which logo, near which start.

• Notes don’t point anywhere. Without a timecode, every note costs you a scrub through the cut and a guess.
• Feedback scatters. One person replies by email, another on WhatsApp, a third forwards the link to someone you’ve never heard from.
• Revisions blur together. It’s easy to lose track of which note was about v1 and which about v2, and transfer links expire before the client gets to them.

1. Upload the cut. Create a project and upload your video. Wait for processing to finish, then open the version you want reviewed.
2. Turn on guest comments. Open Share, select “Allow anonymous comments” and create the link. Without that option, clients can watch and read comments but can’t post.
3. Send the link with a deadline. Something like “Please review v1 by Tuesday and leave a comment wherever you’d like a change.”
4. Read the comments. Each one shows its timestamp. Click it and the player jumps to that moment.
5. Send the next version. Make your changes, upload v2 to the same project and create a new link for it. A share link always opens the version it was made for.

Your client opens the link in any browser, on a laptop or a phone, with nothing to install. They see the player and the comments already left on that version.

With guest comments on, they pause, write and post. Seamlift gives each guest a name like Bashful Bear or Feisty Fox, so you can tell one reviewer from another without anyone filling in a form.

We wrote down exactly what was checked in this flow, and what wasn’t, on the evidence page.

A comment like “hold the logo for one more second” at 00:18 tells you what to change and where. Clicking its timestamp takes you back to that moment, so you never hunt for it.

Team members can also draw on the frame, reply to a comment in a thread and attach reference files. New comments appear live while you’re watching the same version.

In the player, J and L jump back and forward 10 seconds, K plays and pauses, , and . step one frame, and C pauses and starts a comment.

Keep v1, v2 and later cuts in one project. Comments belong to the version that was reviewed, so you can check the original note next to the cut it was about.

If you edit in Premiere Pro, the Seamlift panel can send a sequence as a new version. Seamlift then compares two versions: it reads both timelines, shows what changed, and plays both renders side by side in sync, which makes it quick to confirm every note was handled.

When the client signs off, download the final version and deliver it however you usually do. Every version stays downloadable from the project.

You decide, per link, whether guests can comment. Anyone with an active link can open that version and read its comments, including someone the link was forwarded to.

Switch a link off and later requests through it are blocked. That doesn’t recall files someone already downloaded, so for sensitive work, share only with the people who need it.

Guest comments aren’t fully anonymous: Seamlift stores a visitor identifier to group each guest’s comments. If you need to know who said what, ask clients to sign their comments.

The link makes it easy to point at a moment; a short note in your message makes clients actually do it. Ask for the moment, the change and a deadline. For example:

v1 is ready to review. Please leave comments by Tuesday. Pause where you’d like a change and say what it should be, for example “00:18: hold the logo for one more second”.

For more on what makes feedback usable, see 30 examples of video feedback an editor can act on.

Seamlift charges for storage and nothing else. Every plan, including the free one, has every feature, unlimited projects and unlimited collaborators. Clients reviewing through a link don’t count toward anything.

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