Share links

A share link uploads one finished export to DemoTake Cloud and gives you a short link to a clean player page. The take itself stays on your Mac. Only the export you pick is uploaded.

#Open the Share sheet

You can share from wherever you are:

• Library: right-click a take and choose Share….
• Export sheet: click Share Link…, or Share on a finished export.
• Reviewer Mode: Share with External Reviewer…, or Share Link… in the export menu. The sheet picks the latest Reviewer Pack, or renders a new one first.
• DemoTake Web: click Share in the editor. The free take can have public links and links with an access code, for up to 30 days; invite-only links need a subscription.

You can share videos (16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 1:1), GIFs, Reviewer Packs and interactive demos (Share Link… in the editor's Demo tab). If the take has none yet, the sheet asks you to export one first. See Formats and sizes.

#What you need

Creating links needs a DemoTake Cloud account on Local or any subscription. On the Mac, sign in under Settings › Account with the email you bought DemoTake with. Without that, the sheet shows Sign In… and See Plans instead of the form.

Watching never needs a plan. People open public links and access-code links without an account; invited people only sign in with their email.

#Public links

Choose Public Link, pick the export, give it a title and click Create Link. DemoTake uploads the file (keep DemoTake open until it finishes), then shows Link ready and puts the link on your clipboard.

The link looks like demotake.my/s/<random>. It is unlisted: nobody finds it without the link, but anyone with the link can watch. The page shows:

• a large player with a poster frame from the finished export, subtitles in each language you exported, and the take's scenes;
• the title, your name and workspace, the date and the length;
• Copy Link, Copy Embed Code for videos and interactive demos, and Download if you allowed downloads;
• your call to action, if you added one;
• comments, where viewers add their name and can attach the current time of the video;
• for a Reviewer Pack, Download Pack and the verification details from its manifest.

When someone pastes a public link into a chat app, the preview card shows the title and the poster frame, and tools such as Notion and Slack can embed the player. Private links never show a title or poster in previews. See Embeds, calls to action and analytics.

#Private links

Choose Private, then pick who can watch under Who Can Watch.

#Anyone with the access code

DemoTake creates a code, such as K7QM-XR4D, and shows it once with the link. Copy it with Copy Code and send it separately. "Save the code now. For privacy it isn't shown again; you can create a new one anytime." Viewers type the code on the link's page to watch. Codes ignore case, spaces and dashes, and repeated wrong guesses are slowed down.

#Only people I invite

Enter People as emails or names, separated by commas, and an optional Message. Each person gets an email with the link and signs in with that address to watch. Names only match people you already work with, such as members of your workspace. If a name doesn't match anyone, DemoTake tells you so you can use their email instead. Invited people also find the link under Shared with Me in DemoTake Web.

Someone who opens an invite link without being signed in enters their email on the page. If it is on the list, they get a one-time sign-in link that brings them straight back to the video.

#Link options

• Expires. Links on Local, and links to DemoTake Web's free take, last up to 30 days. Subscriptions allow longer links, and Never. Choosing Never without a subscription shows "Links without an expiry come with a subscription. Pick a date instead."
• Allow viewers to download the file. Off means the page streams the video only.

#Manage your links

Every link you made for a take is listed under Links for This Take at the bottom of the Share sheet, with its kind, its viewer count, its end date and "Streaming only" when downloads are off. Next to a live link, Copy copies it again, and the ⋯ menu offers:

The viewer count shows unique visitors per day, counted without cookies and without storing IP addresses (see Analytics). Your own visits, and visits by members of your workspace, don't count. When you open your own link you see "You shared this", the viewer count and the end date.

#What viewers see when a link ends

An expired link shows "This link has expired" and suggests asking the sender for a new one. A link you turned off shows "This link was turned off". In both cases the video no longer plays or downloads.

#Next

• Embeds, calls to action and analytics
• Interactive demos
• Collaborators and roles to let people comment on or edit the take itself
• Reviewer Packs
• Local and subscriptions
• Privacy and data