For creators
Review and delivery, for the people who make the work.
Most of what a studio makes leaves the building before it is finished — a photograph goes out for a client’s eye, a cut waits on a director’s notes, a mix needs one more pass before anyone signs it off. The feedback comes back through email threads, expiring transfers and screenshots with arrows drawn on them, and within a month the record of who asked for what, and when, is scattered across three inboxes and somebody’s phone. Spaces gathers it into one place: you send a link, the person you sent it to marks the exact frame or second or bar they mean, and their notes come home to the file itself, where you will still find them a year from now.
Photography
A note that knows exactly where it means.
Send a shot for review and the client can draw straight onto the frame — a pin on the light through the window, a box around the crop they are not sure of, a thought pinned to the spot it is about — with no account to make and no downloading the file to mark it up somewhere else and mail it back. Because the note remembers where it was left, you are never again reading “the bit on the left, near the top” and squinting to guess which bit they meant.
The conversation inside the studio stays inside the studio, too: the marks your team leaves for one another never cross over onto the version the client sees, so you can be candid in the edit and considered on the share, on the same frame.
If shooting is the whole of your work, we’ve set out the full case — RAWs, culling, Lightroom, delivery — in cloud storage for photographers.
1PriyaGuest
Pinned point 1The light through the window here is doing all the work — this is the one for the cover, isn’t it?
You
Good eye — pulling this into the selects now.
Film
Watch the cut, leave a note on the second.
Film is reviewed where it lives, in a player built for the job, not a shared drive with a comments box bolted onto the side. A note left at nine seconds stays welded to nine seconds; versions sit one beside the last, so a fix reads as a fix and not as a fresh argument; and once something has been dealt with it is marked resolved, so the thread moves forward instead of circling. The director can be in Lisbon and the colourist in Leeds, and the notes end up in the same place either way.
v2- 0:09Marco the hand-off on the frame here is lovely — can we hold it a beat longer before the cut?
- 0:22You held it two frames longer, v2 up Resolved
- 0:37Elena the grade warms up nicely through the middle — really happy with this.
Sound
Hear the mix in full, and answer it in your own voice.
A mix can turn on half a decibel, and an approval sent as an MP3 throws away the thing you are being asked to judge, so Spaces streams the real file, losslessly, and buffers it whole before it plays — the client hears exactly what you made, and a stumble on the wifi cannot drop a click into the middle of your master. The waveform sits right there to be scrubbed by eye, so a note lands on the bar you mean instead of a timestamp copied out by hand.
And when there is something to say, you can say it out loud. Hold the button and talk, or hum the line you can already hear in your head — the thing people reach for when words will not quite do it — and the note is pinned to the moment, kept as the recording itself so that tone and hesitation survive, and transcribed so it stays searchable later. That transcription runs on a model we run ourselves, in Europe; nothing you send is used to train anything, by us or by anyone else.
Your actual recording is sent — they hear your voice, not a transcript of it.
And if a note is deleted, the recording is deleted with it — properly, from our storage, not just hidden from the thread. That may read as a detail, but a recording of someone’s voice is a serious thing to hold on to, and we keep it no longer than you would like us to.
If music is the heart of your work and not just one strand of it, we’ve written a frank comparison of Vidual Spaces as cloud storage for music — including the things a dedicated audio host still does that we don’t.
Tim1:32Voice note
The low end’s lovely, but the vocal’s sitting a touch hot right through this section — maybe half a dB down and see how it feels?
Heard in full, off the real file — and if a note is deleted, the recording goes with it.
Made by people who send this work, too.
We take photographs and we make music, which is mostly to say we have stood at both ends of this — the end waiting on a sign-off, and the end trying to give a useful note through a tool that seems to be fighting the effort. Spaces is the thing we kept wishing existed: quiet, quick, carefully made, and honest about what becomes of your files once they are in it. Bring one project across and see whether it feels better.