Vidual Spaces
Cloud storage for studios that take craft seriously.
A stylish, friction-free home for your company’s whole work and the conversations around it — the paperwork, the shoot, the cut, the selects, the sign-off and the final send, everything in one rather lovely place, with no per-seat charges and no constant prompts to sign up from share links. Cloud storage, with style. That’s Spaces, by Vidual.
Fourteen days, no card required; bring one project, see whether it feels better.
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L1010823.jpgThe idea
Everything a studio reaches for, in the one place it would think to look.
A studio’s work passes through more hands and more tools than it used to: the photographs are graded in one place, the film is reviewed in another, the shortlist is argued over in a third, and the final files are sent from a fourth — and somewhere in all that handing-off, the thread of who said what, and when, and whether the client ever actually saw it, quietly gets dropped on the floor.
Vidual Spaces gathers those moments back together. The files live here; the comments live on the files; the approvals live where you can find them a year later; and the link you send a client carries its own quiet record of whether it landed. It is the same library you already have, kept somewhere you would actually choose to spend your afternoon.
Find
Search that remembers the way you do.
Ask for the thing you half-remember — the bikes shot in the rain last spring, the press release nobody can name — and search reaches into what was actually in the frame, where it was taken and when, the camera and the lens, rather than the exact filename typed, in haste, into a tiny grey box. It forgives you, every time, for not recalling whether the photograph was filed under Hoxton, or Q3-launch, or final-final-v3.
DSCF2894.jpgTideline · Photos · 8.4 MBSony · 55mm
L1006060.jpgTideline · Scout · 6.1 MBCroyde, Devon- tideline_lineup_v3.movTideline · Film · 1.1 GBFilm
Review
Watch the cut, leave a note on the frame.
Film is reviewed where it lives. Comments weld themselves to the moment they are about, so a note at forty-four seconds stays at forty-four seconds; versions sit side by side, so a fix is a fix and not a fresh argument; and when something is addressed it is marked resolved, so the conversation moves forward rather than in circles. No exports, no third window, no chasing the thread across three apps.
v2- 0:11Cal the water’s reading a little green here — can we push it bluer?
- 0:31You cooled the water, new cut uploaded Resolved
- 0:44Mara love this one peeling off the point — can we hold it half a second longer?
For creators
The whole of it, shown for photographers, filmmakers and musicians.
A photograph, a cut and a mix each ask something a little different of a review, so we have set the whole of it out in one place, craft by craft: the note pinned to the spot on the frame, the comment welded to the second of the cut, and the mix heard in full, at proper fidelity, and answered in your own voice.
Decide
Settle the shortlist together, without the politics.
Put the contenders in front of the team and let everyone vote quietly, without seeing who picked what, so the room’s real preference surfaces instead of the loudest one. When the picks are in, the winners can be tagged, gathered into their own folder, and sent on — the decision made, and a record of how it was made kept with it.
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A quiet eye on what has gone stale.
A library that has been worked in for a few years carries a certain amount of weight it no longer needs: the same file uploaded twice, the rough cut nobody has opened since the grade landed, the two-year-old brochure that has not been touched in earnest. Tidy surfaces the duplicates and the long-untouched, and tells you how much space sits behind them — and then it stops, and lets you decide, because it will never delete a thing on your behalf.
Nothing is deleted — just a clear view of what you could clear. 4.3 GB to reclaim.
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- Staleold_grade_v1.mov1.2 GB · never opened
- Stalebrand-guidelines-2023.pdfuploaded 14 months ago
Send
Send a link, and know it arrived.
A share is a clean, branded page a client can browse and download without an account, a login, or a moment’s confusion. And because the worst feeling in the work is silence — did it arrive, did they open it, did the email even reach them — the link keeps its own quiet record: how many times it was opened, whether the files were taken, and a gentle nudge the very first time someone reaches it.
- Fettle — Spring Rangeopened 2h ago12 opens5 downloads3 recipients
- Director’s cut — v2not opened yet0 opens0 downloads1 recipient
On your desk
It lives in Finder, alongside everything else you work with.
The native Mac app puts the whole library in Finder, the way a drive used to be, except it does not fill the disk: files are there to open the instant you want them and quietly absent until then, so a laptop holds a terabyte of work without holding a terabyte of bytes. Drag, drop, rename and right-click to share, exactly as you already do — the app simply keeps the home in sync underneath.
From your editor
It starts where you edit, in Lightroom and Capture One.
The work rarely begins in a browser; it begins in the editor, at the end of a long cull, when the selects are finally chosen. So the home reaches back to meet it: connect Lightroom Classic or Capture One once, and the frames you have just finished go straight from the export dialog into an Area, at full resolution, subfolders intact, with nothing to drag to a folder and nothing to upload a second time. By the time the export has finished, the shoot is already in Spaces, catalogued and ready to share.
Yours
Private where it needs to be, accountable everywhere, and never locked in.
Permissions follow how studios actually delegate: clients see what they were sent, freelancers see what they were brought on for, account leads see everything, and an area can be sealed to its owner alone when the work is not for the room. Every move, share and deletion leaves a trail you can read back; anything deleted is recoverable for thirty days; and if you ever decide to leave, your files come out cleanly, in formats other tools can read. It is your work — we are only keeping it somewhere better.
Try it for a fortnight.
Fourteen days, no card. Sign up with an email, claim a subdomain you can rename later, and put one project’s files inside. If it does not feel better than what you are using now, leave; we will not chase you, and your data exports cleanly on the way out.