How to comment and annotate in Overcast

What you’ll learn

Learn how to collaborate effectively by adding comments and annotations to assets in Overcast. This tutorial demonstrates how to leave general feedback, create time-coded annotations, use drawing tools to highlight specific areas within a video, and manage comments throughout the review process. These collaboration tools help teams communicate clearly and provide precise, contextual feedback on media assets.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

  • Add comments to an asset
  • Create time-coded annotations on video content
  • Use drawing tools to highlight specific areas
  • Add shapes, arrows and freehand annotations
  • Adjust annotation duration and placement
  • Filter and sort comments and annotations
  • Review feedback in chronological or timecode order

Who should watch?

This tutorial is ideal for content creators, reviewers, editors, marketers and anyone collaborating on media assets within Overcast.

Prerequisites

  • An active Overcast account
  • Access to an asset that supports commenting
  • Permission to comment and annotate assets

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