Timestamped video comments, left by clients without an account.
A timestamped video comment is a note pinned to one exact moment in the video rather than to the file in general. It shows as a marker on the scrubber, and clicking that marker jumps playback straight to the moment being talked about.
In VoiceDeck your client leaves one from a review link in the browser: stop on the moment, type the note, send. No account, no install — they are asked for a name only at the moment they first write, and email is optional.
Stop on the moment, type the note.
Focusing the comment box pauses playback on its own, so the note attaches to the moment you stopped on rather than one four seconds later. That one behaviour is the difference between a usable record and a list of times that are all slightly wrong.
A comment can also carry no timestamp at all, when the note is about the whole file. Everything else is anchored: to the moment, to that version, and to the person who wrote it.
A drawing is part of the comment, not a separate object.
Pen, arrow, and box marks are made on the paused frame and sent with the note that explains them. Open the comment again later and the drawing reappears over the same moment. Nothing floats loose in the timeline waiting to be interpreted.
The same comment layer works on images and PDFs, where notes pin to a spot or a page instead of a time. Audio gets time-pinned comments on the waveform — there is no frame to draw on. Details are on the video annotation tool page.
Your team's notes stay internal.
Comments written by your own team are internal by default — the client's link never shows them unless you choose to make one visible. That means the working pass ("kill the second lower third, we'll blame the brief") and the client-facing thread can live on the same file without leaking into each other.
Each client link is its own conversation, so one reviewer never reads another client's notes. When the round is done, approval is recorded per person and per version, and an approval on v1 never carries forward to v2.
Getting a client to that point takes one link and no signup — see sharing video with clients, or sending large video files if the cut is too heavy to email.