How it works

Finished cut to published, in five steps.

Nothing to migrate, no account for your client to create, and no guessing which version was signed off. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.

The five steps

  1. Upload the finished cut

    The editor uploads the finished cut from their browser directly into Google Drive. The file never passes through ProdBeast servers, so there is no file size limit.

    • The upload is resumable, so a dropped connection on a 4 GB master picks up where it left off instead of starting again.
    • ProdBeast records a reference to the Drive file. That reference is the durable record — the video itself stays in the account that owns it.
  2. Get a review-ready copy

    ProdBeast prepares an adaptive streaming version of the cut so reviewers get smooth, seekable playback in the browser instead of downloading a multi-gigabyte file.

    • This happens in the background. A short clip is ready in seconds; a 1.4 GB master takes a few minutes.
    • The streaming copy is a cache with a deadline, not storage. It is deleted the moment you publish, and automatically after 14 days if you do not.
  3. Review with time-stamped comments

    Reviewers watch the cut in the browser and leave comments pinned to exact timecodes, with @-mentions, emoji reactions and file attachments.

    • Pinned comments appear as markers inside the player control bar, right under the scrub bar — hover to read one, click to jump straight to that frame.
    • A client or external reviewer can be sent a share link and needs no account at all. If you allow it on the link, they can approve from there too.
  4. Approve, or send it back

    The creator or client approves the cut, requests changes with a written reason, or denies it. Every decision emails the other party and is recorded in the status history.

    • When changes are needed, the editor uploads a new version against the same item — the comment thread and full history stay attached instead of restarting in a fresh file.
    • The status history answers the question that usually has no answer: which cut was approved, by whom, and when.
  5. Publish straight to YouTube

    Once approved, ProdBeast uploads the master from Google Drive to your connected YouTube channel with title, description, tags, category, privacy, thumbnail and scheduled publish time.

    • The upload streams from Drive to YouTube in bounded chunks, and the progress you see is the real byte count rather than an animation.
    • After it goes live, YouTube Analytics is pulled back in per video — views, watch-time hours, likes, comments and a daily views series — next to the video it belongs to.

Where you sit in it

Three people, three different jobs.

Editor

If you cut the video

You upload finished cuts, watch feedback land on the timeline instead of arriving as a scattered message, and upload revisions against the same item so nothing restarts in a new file.

Creator

If you own the channel

You review what your editors send, approve or send it back with a reason, and publish approved cuts to your channel with full metadata and a schedule. Analytics come back to the same place.

Client

If someone sent you a link

You open the link, watch in the browser, and leave comments on the exact moments you mean. No account, no install, no download. If the link allows it, you can approve from there too.

A note on your files

We don’t keep your videos.

Finished files live in your own Google Drive, under your account, and stay there. That is the difference between a tool you can walk away from and one that is holding your library. Stop paying us tomorrow and nothing moves.

We do make one temporary copy. Drive hands back a single fixed-quality original, which stalls the moment someone starts scrubbing, so we prepare a streaming version that does not. It is deleted when you publish, and expires on its own after 14 days if you never do. We would rather explain that than claim your video never leaves your Drive, which would not be true.

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