Tutorials

1. In the menu bar at the top of the page, the green “Upload Files” button is visible – click it to begin uploading your files.
2. A pop-up window will appear. Here you can select which files to upload from your computer, which projects they belong in and what keywords you’d like to associate with them.
3. When finished, click Upload Files.

1. To search for assets, use the Search Bar at the top of the screen.
2. Type the name of the asset or one of its related keywords and Overcast will show you the relevant results.
3. To filter assets with more granularity, you can use the advanced search by clicking the filter button at the right side of the search bar.
4. You can then filter assets based on: file size, resolution, duration and date along with other filters.
5. When you’ve inputted your desired filters, press “search”. 

1. To download a file, first go to the Asset Page of the file you wish to download.
2. On this asset page, look to the vertical icon panel at the leftmost side of screen. Click the 3rd icon (down arrow) on this panel (labelled “Download”). 
3. On the right-hand side of the screen, select which format you would like to download in and click “download”. 

1. To create a new project in Overcast, click into the projects tab on the left and click “create new project”
2. Put in your project name, make sure it’s enabled and then for the “client” tab you will only have one option so keep it at your account name.
3. Upload a custom thumbnail if you’d like, if you don’t, we will show a small thumbnail of a few files in the project.
4. Put in a small description if you’d like and create the project. 

1. Go into the project list.
2. Click “Add a collaborator” and put in the email of the person you want to add.
3. Choose the permissions that you want the collaborator to have. 
4. Press “Invite Collaborator”

1. While viewing an asset, click the button on the right which shows “send for approval”
2. We prepopulate an email to whoever you want to send the request to with the subject line pulled directly from the filename. 
3. Add in additional information to the email. 
4. Click who to send the request to.
5. They will get an email with a secure link where they can login and see the asset and will be able to click “approved” or “send back for revisions”

1. While viewing an asset, click the button on the right which shows “send for approval”
2. We prepopulate an email to whoever you want to send the request to with the subject line pulled directly from the filename.
3. Add in additional information to the email.
4. Click who to send the request to.
5. They will get an email with a secure link where they can login and see the asset and will be able to click “approved” or “send back for revisions”

1. To make a comment on or add an annotation to a video or image, click the comments tab on the left.
2. To add a comment type it into the box and it will appear on the right. You can do the same thing for annotating.
If you add an annotation, it will appear on top of the image or video.
3. For videos, if you add comments while watching the video, the comments and annotations will be timecoded.
4. You can also use the “Cycle markers” button to cycle through the comments and annotations on the video
If required, you can also download the comments in many different formats.

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