The slow part of a video job was never the timeline; it was the handoff: a drive in a courier bag, a review email with three attachments and a question about which cut is newest. Collaboration in the browser replaces the handoff with a project that everyone opens.
A cloud project is the single source of truth: the editor cuts, the colourist grades, the mixer levels, and each pass lands on the same timeline. Nobody merges folders or asks which version of the edit is current.
Feedback resolves against a frame instead of a timecode in an email. Notes arrive as markers on the timeline, the round of approvals is visible to everyone waiting on it, and nothing lives in an attachment.
When the cut locks, the grade and the mix continue in the same project, and deliveries render from the timeline the client approved. Earlier versions stay reachable for comparison without a folder archaeology session.
Shared projects reward a little discipline: name versions, park markers where notes were left, and keep private experiments in duplicate timelines instead of on the live one.
Collaboration questions that come up before a first render.
Yes, on different pages of the same project, which is how colour and sound passes run alongside an editor working through notes. Two people trimming the same clip at the same second stays a coordination question, not a technical one.
The project side of review lives in the studio. Where a client needs a no-account view, the practical route is a private link to a render with notes gathered in one thread, then entered into the project as markers.
The project lives in the cloud, so working sessions happen online. The desktop app covers fully offline days, and both read the same project.
Versions are part of the project: duplicate the timeline at milestones, name it clearly and keep it. Nothing is overwritten until it is deleted on purpose.
The studio is one project with several pages. These are the pages that usually come before and after this one.
Open the studio, leave the project in a state you can share, and collect the next round of notes as markers.
