What’s new in ftrack Review

We’ve added alphanumeric sorting to the Vertical Playlist. Alphanumeric sorting makes it easy to quickly re-order your playlists based on their shot number, version number, etc. (We also made a design tweak to the dropdown view in the sidebar to make it even easier to use.)

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If you reload or leave a review and then return later down the line, be it within minutes, days, weeks, or months, your ftrack Review session will now remember your volume settings.

Previously, if you adjusted your review session volume to a lower setting and then left or reloaded the review, ftrack Review would reset the media volume to 100% – and that could result in some unexpectedly loud playback when returning to the review session and hitting play! Now, if you set the volume to 20%, the review volume will stay at 20%.

ftrack Review’s default volume setting is now set to 80% rather than 100% to avoid any surprisingly loud noises when starting a review!

Peace of mind and efficiency are what characterize this update of ftrack Review. This version delivers new features for Pro users to help secure your content and copyrights while speeding up your reviews so you can get more productivity out of each day. 

Know that your copyright is protected and that you are the rightful owner of your content with the new ftrack Review Workspace Security features. Available for Review Pro accounts, these features enable you to confidentially manage the secure access to your review sessions and protect your media content from unauthorized use. With features like Link Sharing Disablement, Passphrase Requirement, or setting live Watermarking to all your review content, you can have peace of mind knowing that your media is secure.

If you are concerned about the security of your unreleased content, take advantage of the new watermarking feature in ftrack Review (Pro). It’s a great measure you can take to protect your content from unauthorized access. You can easily add visible watermarks to your footage, which are unique to each participant, ensuring that it can be traced back to its origin if it is leaked or shared. With watermarking in ftrack review, you can have peace of mind while sharing your unreleased content with total confidence.

Speed up your reviews. ftrack Review’s “Play All” improvements helps you get through long sequences faster. With this update, you can create sequences of 100+ shots and review them as an assembly edit or context cut. No more waiting for large sequences to load—you can now review your shots in seconds.

Presentation Mode is now available in ftrack Review for Review Pro accounts. Presentation Mode gives the review session owner complete control over the review. Turning on Presentation Mode automatically pulls all session participants into sync (including those who join after Presentation Mode has been enabled); however, everyone but the review owner will be passive observers only, rather than active participants. Participants can see the session owner controlling the review but will have no ability to control the interface themselves. (Although they can still change volume, go full screen, and approve/require changes.)

We’ve redesigned and reimagined ftrack Review to make your review sessions more intuitive.

In ftrack Review’s latest update, you can enjoy a newly updated, modern user interface designed for highly intuitive, user-friendly review sessions, alongside a greater focus on efficiency. Browser-based review in ftrack Review now supports more streamlined, fast, and responsive reviews with fewer clicks, even when reviewing large projects with lots of guests and notes. The update also offers new features for the power user, including tools to manage reviews from within the player interface.

ftrack Review now sports a larger media window to give your media pride of place. You can also minimize the sidebar if you’d like to run full-width review sessions and see things in more detail.

We’ve also updated ftrack Review’s color scheme to introduce more clarity and give your review sessions a more modern feel.

We’ve done a lot of work under the hood to make ftrack Review more responsive than ever. As a result, you can now enjoy more responsive notes and faster session loading, even when working with a ton of notes and attendees!

You can now manage your feedback via a redesigned feedback bar. Using the feedback bar, you can add feedback (which we’ve moved from under the media player window), view asset information, manage your playlist, share reviews, access approvals, and more.

You can now view feedback per frame only—this will only show frames with annotations, making things super clear. You can still view feedback as a list if you wish, which will show a scrolling list of all feedback as ftrack Review has done in the past.

We’ve also made it possible to expand notes to see all annotations, saved frames, and attachments—you can then close them again to keep things tidy!

Colored timeline markers now reveal how recently feedback was posted. Red markers mean a comment is under three hours old; orange means between 3–24 hours old, and yellow means 24 hours +. With this system, users can quickly identify new feedback.

Users can now see annotations animated over several frames using ftrack Review’s new ghosting feature—it’s perfect for describing motion!

You can now invert images and videos and compare versions to see what approaches work best.

Guests now receive a prompt to join a synced session whenever one starts, so no one is left out!

We’ve added new additions to the toolbar, including compare mode, a resolution selector, an updated timecode counter, and new volume control options.

There are a ton of new things happening behind the scenes in ftrack Review:

• Drawing tools are enabled by default, so you can just dive in and draw.
• Your drawings and sketches are now saved automatically to a frame without you needing to hit Post.
• You can “Grab” annotated frames to capture their contents and add them to a note.