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SceneNote
Free video feedback tool for editors & clients
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Free video feedback tool for editors & clients
119 followers
Every other video review tool wants an account, an upload, or a subscription. SceneNote wants none of them. Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or Dropbox link, share it, and collect feedback in seconds. Timestamped comments, annotations drawn on the frame, voice notes that transcribe themselves, versions, and tasks. Your reviewers never sign up. Export as CSV or EDL and every note lands as a marker in Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut. Free because we build on links instead of hosting your video.
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@kiril_dobrev Congrats Kiril!
The idea is great!
Is there a versioning and comparison between?
@adana Hey thanks Adana! Yep we built in versioning, so you can add iterations (v2, v3) on the same project and switch between. Feedback stays tied to the version it was left on.
@adana We haven't built comparisons (yet). Is that something you think would be helpful in your workflow? Curious to hear your workflow and see if we can implement something like this!
@kiril_dobrev great product, love seeing products that solve real problems.
@andrew_tainton Solving our own problems haha. Appreciate it Andrew!
@kiril_dobrev Congrats. Can you give a pros and cons in comparison to other tools like vimeo.com? That we are using at the moment. Thanks!
@murad_ahmed5 Cheers Murad and good question!
Vimeo Review is conveniant if youre already living on Vimeo. Hosting, review and delivery in one place.
But .. what surprised me is how much sits behind the paywall on Vimeo review. On the free plan, when you go to create a review link, nearly every option has an upgrade badge next to it. Link expiry, download permissions, letting people view previous versions, even removing vimeo's branding from the page. You can share a link and collect comments, and that's roughly it.
The free tier is also 1GB of storage for the lifetime of the account, so 1 or 2 exports and you're out of space.
The feedback itself is text only as far as I can tell. I couldn't find any drawing or annotation tools, so a client can't circle the thing they're actually talking about. For a lot of work that's fine. For anything visual it usually costs you a revision round.
So my take would be that Vimeo makes sense if you want everything under one roof. It's a hosting platform first, so your videos live there, you can embed them, manage team access, and review is built on top of that. If you're already paying for the hosting, review comes along with it.
SceneNote is just the feedback layer, on purpose. No account for you or your reviewers, annotations drawn straight on the frame, voice notes that transcribe themselves, and notes you can export as CSV or EDL and drop into Premiere pro, DaVinci resolve or Final cut pro as timeline markers. It works off links rather than uploads, so there's no storage cap.
So ... they're not really either/or. If Vimeo is working for hosting, keep it and just paste the Vimeo link into SceneNote when you want annotations or markers on your timeline.
Either way, thanks for asking. If you do try it, tell me how you found the experience :)
@kiril_dobrev Congratulations! Organising video feedback in one place should reduce the repeated messages and unclear revision requests that editors often receive. Are you targeting freelance editors, creative agencies, or internal marketing teams?
@rodah_mwiti We built it for ourselves as editors first. But the more we build it out, the more we're also positioning it for creative agencies in mind (or really any business owner that makes use of video)
@kiril_dobrev Client review on video is where timelines quietly slip, usually because feedback lands as a vague email instead of a timestamp. I've managed editors where "make it pop" cost two extra rounds. Does the client side enforce frame-specific comments, or can they still leave the vague stuff?
The link model is the right trade, but it hands your accuracy to somebody else's player. YouTube seeks to the nearest keyframe and gives you a float in seconds, so a note that reads 04:12 can land a frame or two off by the time it's a marker in Resolve. And since you never touch the source file you never learn the true frame rate, where 23.976 against 24 drifts about a frame every 42 seconds, which is the kind of error an editor blames on themselves. Are you asking the editor for frame rate or inferring it from the link?
@asadmalik901 you choose your frame rate when exporting markers!
no hosting because the video already lives on youtube/vimeo is a smart cut, not a compromise. with no reviewer login, how do you tell whose note is whose?
@andrewzakonov There's and option to simply add your name within the project room and it will populate alongside all your notes.
@andrewzakonov Thanks Andrew - and yeah, like Bryn said - you just add your name here and then that little bell icon next to it let's you sign up for email notifications for the project (totally optional)
Pasted a Vimeo link and my reviewer left a note with a sketch in under a minute, no login wall. The Premiere marker export is the kind of feature that quietly saves an hour.
@qualityml This kind of reaction makes me genuinely happy because that was a big focus for us. We really tried to make it as seamless and as frictionless as possible, both for the editor and the people who are reviewing the footage. Nice!
The no-account approach for reviewers is the right call - asking clients to sign up somewhere is exactly where this kind of feedback falls apart. One thing I would want to understand about how it works in practice: when multiple people are reviewing the same cut, can I tell who left which comment, or does all the feedback come in without attribution? For a small project with one client it does not matter, but once there are two or three people on the review side, knowing who said what makes responding to specific notes much easier.
This is actually how I discovered SceneNote. My team and I are currently working on a video case study, and breaking down video references has always been a painful process—constantly writing down timestamps, taking screenshots, and organizing everything manually. The key words are: it used to be 🙂
Thanks for building this, @kiril_dobrev. Honestly, I don't even know what to nitpick at this point. I'll keep using SceneNote over the next few weeks and come back with more detailed feedback. Hopefully, I can help make the product even better.
Added it to my bookmarks already 🚀
@alvodsgn Very stoked to hear that Lesha! And please feel free to send any feedback / or feature requests so we can keep making this better and better for you!
Kiril, this hits a real sore spot for me. Getting notes that land on the exact moment someone means, without making anyone create an account just to comment, takes so much pain out of the back and forth.
@robin_de_lacroix Thanks Robin, that's exactly the itch. The account thing was the bit that annoyed me most haha! Would be curious how it holds up on your next round of notes. Do let us know!