Framing guides in the player, approvals that say what they cover, and archived links that explain themselves.
A smaller release than August, aimed at the places where the app was letting people guess. Framing guides for anyone checking a delivery spec, approvals that state their scope, and a screen that finally tells your client the truth when a job is finished.
Safe areas and aspect ratio mattes. The video player can now overlay framing guides on any video, from the crop icon in the player controls. Safe areas draw action safe and title safe for 16:9 or 4:3, and picking 4:3 on a widescreen master measures them inside the centered 4:3 area, which is how you check center cut protection. Mattes mask off everything outside a target ratio, covering 2.39:1, 2.35:1 and 1.85:1 for cinema, 16:9, 1.66:1 and 4:3 for broadcast, and 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 for social. The masked area is dimmed rather than filled, so a boom mic just outside the crop is still visible, which is the whole point of looking. Guides are a display aid, never burned into the file, and they show up on your request page, the review link and the team view alike.
Approvals now say how many files they cover. A decision has always applied to the whole request rather than to the file on screen, and reviewers were reading it the other way round. On a multi-file request the button now reads "Approve all 4 files" and the confirmation lists every file by name, so anyone who only meant to sign off the file in front of them is pointed at Request Revisions instead. Single-file requests are unchanged. This came from a user telling us the wording was ambiguous.
Copy a single comment. Every comment has a small copy icon in its header, on your request page, on the review link and on the shared view. It copies the words the reviewer wrote without the badges, so a "Page 3" or "Line 42" marker never gets pasted into your edit list along with the note.
Archived links no longer look like a mistake. Archiving a finished job used to leave the old link reading "Review link not found, this link may be invalid or expired", which told your client you had sent them a bad address. An archived link now has its own screen saying the review has been archived and to get in touch if they still need it. A link that never existed still shows the not-found screen, so the two are told apart. There is a new help article on what archiving does and what your client sees.
Faster public pages, and a contrast pass. The marketing and help pages were loading the entire review app, including the PDF engine, before showing you anything. Those screens are now loaded only when you actually open one, which takes the initial download from 389 KB to 274 KB. Separately, a run through the site against WCAG AA lifted the contrast on buttons, badges and footer headings that were failing it, described the cookie banner link properly for screen readers, and fixed the logo rendering about half its proper width on phones.