Working with comments

How to navigate comments, manage notifications, reply to comments, filter and export feedback

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Written by Chris Potter
Updated over a week ago

If you click on one of the comments on the right side of the screen, the video will jump to the appropriate frame. The player overlays annotations on top of the video (indicated by a paintbrush beside the commenter’s name). 

Comment notifications

People that are providing feedback with review links will not be sent any comment notifications as we do not collect their email addresses.

People that are part of a project team (registered Screenlight users) will be sent a comment notification each time someone adds feedback to a project asset. These messages contain links that will take you directly to the appropriate file in Screenlight.

You can turn off comment notifications on any of the projects you are a part of. 

Reply and edit comments  

Anybody with permission to add comments can also reply to other people's comments. Comment replies are threaded to keep things organized. 

People that are providing feedback via a review link cannot currently edit or delete their comments.

Screenlight users that have signed into the application can edit or delete their own comments. Admins and Project managers can also edit or delete comments made by other users. 

Sort and filter feedback

By default, feedback is ordered by timecode. Click the sort button to order comments by date created or by the commenter. The next video that you load will use the same display settings. 

You can use the filter button to zero in on feedback from specific people or comments that contain a particular word. This case shows feedback filtered with the name Chris. 

Export feedback

If you have lots of feedback, it can be handy to either print it out or export it so that you can work with it in your NLE. Click the Print icon to begin doing this. 

Clicking Adobe Premiere Pro will export a CSV that you can import using our Premiere Pro marker import tool. Clicking Avid Media Composer will export a small text file that you can import into Media Composer. Clicking print preview will open a nicely formatted document that you can print off. You can also save it as a PDF for archiving. 

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