Autodesk is excited to announce that our new application Creative Review has now entered public Beta. Our engineers and early testers have been working closely to bring you a smooth, intuitive and refreshed video review experience.
You’ll have the opportunity to try features like:
Live synchronized collaborative reviews
New ways to view and interact with media like our hold and ghost feature as well as compare modes
Re-opening previously made annotations back into the player to scrub through and review in realtime
And a lot more exciting features planned for upcoming releases.
In the Manage Apps screen, open the Creative Review configuration menu.
In the Overview tab, enable Creative Review.
To select the roles that can use Creative Review:
As an admin, open Apps > Manage Apps
In the Manage Apps screen, open the Creative Review configuration menu.
In the Configure tab, select the roles that can access Creative Review.These same permissions also define who can access a Live Review session.
As Creative Review continues to grow and evolve we’d love to hear from you and your experiences while we continue work on bringing you new features and increased performance. Your voice can help us as we continue with regular updates and releases. You can leave comments and feedback on our community forums which can help us make active improvements.
So from everyone at Autodesk, thanks for joining us on our journey to bring Creative Review to your workflow.
I followed the instructions but I see now download, or new page to open on the website, and there’s no difference to the media player. Can you provide more instructions on how to access the app?
Are you planning a webinar to demo the new features, how this compares to previous workflows, and any technical considerations for pipeline devs?
Glad you found the info you needed from the docs. No specific plans for a webinar at this moment but we will definitely post information for potential future events.
I just tried this out. There are some good quality of life improvements here.
One thing that stood out to me is the awkward interface of loading annotations into the timeline by using the dropdown menu on individual notes. Once loaded, portions of the interface become locked until you unload the annotations. In an ideal world, all annotations from all notes for a specific version should be loaded into the timeline by default. When you hit a frame that has an annotation the associated note/notes should be displayed somewhere for convenience. This could be either scrolling the sidebar to the appropriate note or by having a popup when you hover over the annotation in the timeline that shows a thumbnail of the annotation with any associated notes and who authored them.
Here are some other ideas that would be helpful for annotations.
Color annotation markers based on status color.
Filter options for annotations based on note status. Completed notes could be fully hidden or their markers opacity could be set to a lower value.
Hovering / Selecting a note in the side bar should add emphasis to the annotations in the timeline. My suggestion would be making the markers larger and lowering the opacity on markers unrelated to the current note.
Will uploaded webm be supported eventually, like in the Overlay Player ?
Right now, I’m getting an endless loading spinner (and a bunch of errors in the console) because the mp4 is unavailable.
Hey Carine,
If you’re still having issues with this we recommend creating a new forum post under bug with as much information as possible and we can look to address this item.
Thanks so much
Since 8.18 SG themselves have halted transcoding webm versions, I would imagine going forward there will not be support for that field in future tools.
I do wonder what happens if you upload a webm file to the uploaded_movie_mp4 field though.
Hey! Great to see that this beta is public! I’ve already provided a bunch of feedback that I won’t detail here. But I will reiterate that I really need to be able to edit notes in Creative Review. Right now, you cannot. You’d have to open them in Shotgrid just to fix a typo on a submitted note.
I’ll add that I can do this right now in SG normal web review
Also, you really need to be able to reply to a note. The modern idea of “conversations” born of social media is prevalent. If there’s a 10 notes, and I want to reply to note #5. I’d have to explain that in my note. I should be able to scroll up to note 5 and reply directly there.
Again, I can do this right now in SG normal web review.
I agree the annotations loading is awkward. I think in sync sketch you can just arrow up and down and it will cycles thought the notes/annotations and show you the markers on the timeline without needed to go to a menu dropdown.
This raises a question, what to choose between the many ways of doing reviews in Flow…
Nowadays we use RV, “Play in Browser” (I dont know how that one is called, screening room without the browser part)
General missing stuff:
when using Cut context, and scrub time to other shots, the notes dont show the current shot, always the notes from the version selected in the top center menu. (this is not great if i want to quicly check the notes on a prev/next shot)
version picker(top center) doesnt store the sorting config. (idally a global setting, similar how filters work in any flow page)
overall fix Notes pannel resize when creating a note, settings.
resize side pannels (seem to narrow)
start app from Version Page → selecting multiple versions → open in RV | open in create | open in Creative Review. (instead of having to create a playlist first)
audio scrubbing (+ display audio wave)
play from local files, if available? (show Movie | Streaming)
flip horizontal, vertical
Annotation missing features:
edit/add replies (match functionality with the other Flow review tools)
waccom preasure strokes
arrow, square, circle shapes
text tool
show all markers of annotated frames in timeline (instead of per note, ‘View annotations in player’) would it make sense to also show markers for notes that dont have annotations?
when clicking on a note, the timeline should move to the annotated time.
Compare features:
add more diff modes, overlay, add, difference, difference(inverted)
compare grid (per step/task) --currently can only compare 1vs1
label with the name of the version (some kind of tooltip for both compared versions )
apply compare to all/multiple items in the playlist. (If i want to compare all anim shots vs all comp shots)
Overall Im liking a lot this new way of reviewing, some things are missing but the direction looks pretty powerful.
I would like to be able to launch this directly from a cut, playlist, any list of Versions … creting playlists can slow things down.
Thanks for the feedback bmLucasMorante. Some of these items are on our radar, some are actively being worked on. We’ll ingest this feedback, and we can’t wait to show off exciting new developments and features in the near future. Cheers
