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CloudStudio gives you two ways to get a cut in front of someone outside your team: review links for asynchronous viewing and comments, and CloudCast for live sessions where you and the client watch the same playhead together. A review link is a shareable URL that streams a single asset (usually an export) with comments, scrubbing, and optional protections. Clients open the link in any browser — no account or app install required.
  1. From the project page, click the asset you want to share (usually an H.264 export)
  2. Click Share → Create review link
  3. Configure options (below)
  4. Copy the link
  • Password — protect the link with a password. Recommended for any external share.
  • Expiry date — the link stops working after this date. Defaults to 30 days; set shorter for sensitive cuts.
  • Watermark — burns the viewer’s email and timestamp into the player as a deterrent against re-shares. Recommended for confidential content.
  • Allow download — toggle whether the viewer can download the original file. Off by default for security.
  • Allow comments — usually on; turn off only if you want a read-only show-and-tell.

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What viewers see

The review page renders:
  • A full-resolution video player (streamed from CloudStudio’s edge cache, not your workstation — fast everywhere)
  • A scrub bar with frame-accurate seeking
  • A comments panel on the right
  • Click anywhere on the timeline to drop a timestamped comment
Viewers can:
  • Drop comments at specific timecodes
  • Reply to other comments
  • Mark comments as resolved (if they have permission)
  • Download the file (if you enabled it)

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Getting notified

You get email notifications when someone views the link or leaves a comment. The CloudStudio web app also shows comment activity in the project’s activity feed. To kill an active link:
  1. Open the project
  2. Click the asset
  3. Click Share → Manage links
  4. Click the trash icon on the link you want to kill
The link immediately stops working. Anyone with the URL gets a “link no longer available” page.

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CloudCast — live review

CloudCast streams your live edit session to a client’s browser, sub-second latency. You drive the playhead; they watch in real time. Think of it as a one-way video call where the “camera” is your NLE output.

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When to use it

  • Live client review where you want to scrub through cuts together
  • Director sessions where someone is calling shots in real time
  • Approvals where the back-and-forth would take ten emails

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Setup (one time)

CloudCast routes your NLE output through NDI → OBS → Cloudflare Realtime → your client’s browser.
  1. On your remote workstation, install OBS Studio (brew install --cask obs works fine)
  2. Install the NDI plugin for OBS — obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-ndi.528/
  3. Enable NDI output in your NLE:
    • Premiere: Preferences → Mercury Transmit → check NDI Output
    • Resolve: Preferences → System → Video and Audio I/O → set output to NDI
    • Avid: Settings → Video Output → NDI
  4. In OBS, add an NDI Source pointing at your NLE’s output
  5. Install the CloudCast streamer — link from your workstation’s CloudStudio menu
You only do this once per workstation. After that, starting a CloudCast is a single button.

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Starting a session

  1. From the project page, click Share → Start CloudCast
  2. CloudStudio gives you a link to send to your client
  3. Click Start streaming — your NLE output goes live
  4. Your client opens the link; they see your playhead in their browser
  5. They can chat with you in a sidebar — text only, not voice
  6. Click End when you’re done; the link goes dead immediately

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Session options

  • Password — protect the session link
  • Viewer list — see who’s currently watching (avatars in the sidebar)
  • Mute presence — viewers can mute the audio on their end without affecting you

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Latency

Sub-second under normal network conditions. CloudCast prioritizes latency over quality, so expect 1080p at moderate bitrate — fine for review, not for color-critical grading sessions (use a dedicated screening room or send a proper export for color review).

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Comment workflow

Comments accumulate on the asset, viewable from both the review link side (clients) and the project side (your team). A typical workflow:
  1. Client leaves comments on the review link
  2. You see them in the project’s comments panel
  3. You address each in your NLE
  4. Mark them resolved (or have the client mark them after re-reviewing)
  5. Re-export, drop the new version, share a fresh link (or send the same link if you allowed comments to persist across versions)
Comments are tied to the asset, not the link, so if you upload a new version of the same asset, the comments are preserved.

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