Collaborators and roles

A share link sends one finished export. Collaborate shares the take itself: its scenes, edits and comments. Collaborators always see the latest version, and editors can change it.

Collaboration happens on the DemoTake Web copy of a take. Your take stays on your Mac as well, and the two stay connected through sync.

#What each role can do

"Open" includes opening the take in DemoTake for Mac. Members of your workspace already have full access to its takes, so you only invite people from outside it.

#Plans

• To invite people, the take's workspace needs a subscription (Director, Team or Enterprise). DemoTake Web and cloud takes are part of every subscription, and the workspace's plan covers the storage.
• To view or comment, collaborators need no plan at all. They only sign in with the email you invited.
• To edit, an editor needs a subscription of their own. Without one, they can still watch, comment and open the take in DemoTake for Mac, but changes they make there stay on their Mac.

#Invite people

1. Open the take's Share sheet: right-click it in the library and choose Share…, or click Share in the DemoTake Web editor.
2. Choose Collaborate. On the Mac, a take that isn't in DemoTake Web yet shows Put this take in DemoTake Web first. Click Sync to DemoTake Web once.
3. Enter People as emails or names, separated by commas, pick a Role and click Invite.

Each person gets an email with a link to the take in DemoTake Web and signs in with that address. They don't need an account beforehand. Names only match people you already work with, such as members of your workspaces or people you invited before. If a name doesn't match, DemoTake says "We couldn't find … Try their email address."

The People list shows each collaborator's status: Opened, Invited, or Invited · no account yet. Change a role with the picker next to their name, or click × to remove them. Removing someone stops their access right away.

#What collaborators see

Invited people find the take under Shared with Me in DemoTake Web.

• Viewers and commenters see a read-only page: the latest export or the recorded scenes, and the comments. From there they can Open in DemoTake for Mac.
• Editors with a subscription open the take in the DemoTake Web editor and work on it like their own.
• Editors without a subscription see the read-only page with "Editing in the browser comes with a DemoTake subscription. You can open this project in DemoTake for Mac now."

#Comments

Commenters, editors and workspace members can comment on the take. A comment can carry a time in the video; click the time to jump there. Viewers can read comments but not add them: "You can read comments. Ask the owner to let you comment."

Deleting the take removes its collaborators and comments.

#Editing from a Mac

Editors don't have to work in the browser. Open in DemoTake for Mac opens a demotake://take/<id> link, which launches DemoTake, pulls the take into the library and opens it. DemoTake asks you to sign in to DemoTake Cloud first if you haven't. Subscribers can also use Open from Web… in the Mac sidebar, where shared takes are listed under Shared with You.

Changes sync back to DemoTake Web, and edits made in two places at once are never silently overwritten. You choose what to keep; see Sync between Mac and DemoTake Web.

#Next

• Sync between Mac and DemoTake Web
• Share links
• Local and subscriptions