From one video shop to another
I know where every file is, and what I should be working on today.
I run a video company in Florida and I built Proofbin for it. The cut, the client's notes, the shoot date and the messages from my editor all hang off the job they belong to. Nothing sits loose in my email or on somebody's desktop.
- Review by the client, in the browser
- Notes pinned to the frame
- Drawings on the frame
- Files on the job they belong to
- Free plan no card
- Your team included
Four moments of the same job. This is the part I use every week.
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A client asks for a cut on Friday. The message becomes the job, with the date already on it, so nobody writes it down twice.
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When I do not know what I should be working on, I open the calendar and the day tells me. Move the shoot and the job moves with it.
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The note lands on the frame it is about, so you are not reading "around the middle somewhere" and guessing which middle.
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One approval, and the file lands in the client's portal and on my own drive at the same time.
Nobody on your team costs extra.
We charge the account. It is not counting people, so it has no reason to.
Most review tools are sold by the seat. A second editor costs more, a producer costs more, and the client who only wants to watch the cut costs more too. You end up deciding who gets to see the work by what it adds to the bill, which is a bad way to run a job.
Put your editors, your producer, your assistant and every client you have in it. The price does not move.
- They say "the part with the truck." You do not watch the whole cut twice looking for it.
- Draw on the frame. Circle the logo instead of describing where the logo is.
- You see the fix, you do not take somebody's word for it. v2 and v3 run next to each other.
- Nothing to keep in sync. You are not the person who remembers to update the other app.
Your client gets a portal, not a folder full of links.
To them, the place they pick up the work is part of what they paid for.
It carries their name, their logo and their colors, so it reads as their company and not as a file service. They open the link you sent and they are in. No account to make, no password to reset, no invitation lost in spam.
On the free plan the portal carries our mark. On a paid plan it carries yours.
- One link that keeps working. Send it once, add work to it later.
- Approve with one button. That is the whole ceremony.
- Video and stills together. Browsed like a website instead of unzipped.
- The work is not public until your client says so. It plays for the people you sent it to.
iPhone app
Answer from the truck.
Most notes come in while I am on a shoot. The app carries the same review, the same chat and the same calendar as the web, so I can watch the cut, answer the client and move the job forward before I get back to the desk.
Coming to the App Store. Your account works the same on the web and on the phone.
Ernesto Perez, ConnectArt Media.
Who built it, and why it is not a side project attached to a software company.
I shoot and I edit, most weeks both. ConnectArt is my video company in Port St. Lucie, Florida, a real shop with real deadlines and real clients waiting on cuts.
I built Proofbin because my own work was scattered across four apps that did not talk to each other. The task lived in one, the cut in another, the client's notes in email, and the backup happened when somebody remembered. Work does not get lost inside those tools, it gets lost in the space between them.
We still run every job through it. When something in it is annoying, I feel it before you do.
Three plans. Nobody on your team costs extra.
You pay for the video you keep, not for who looks at it.
For trying it on a real job.
- 1 hour of video, about 20 GB
- Review, calendar, chat and a client portal
- Unlimited people on your side
- The portal carries the Proofbin mark
For a shop running one brand and a full roster of clients.
- 10 hours of video, about 200 GB
- Your own brand on every client portal
- Unlimited people, clients and portals
- Everything in the free plan, without the limits
For a shop running several brands under one roof.
- Workspaces. Separate brands, clients and teams, one bill
- Most months it is $29.99. A month where you move a lot more video than the plan holds costs more that month
- Everything in Proofbin
Hit your limit and nothing gets deleted. Move the approved work to your own drive, which frees the space, or move up a plan.
Questions.
The ones a video shop actually asks before signing up.
Is the free plan a trial?
No. There is no clock on it and no card. One hour of video, and the client portal carries our mark instead of yours.
Do my clients need an account?
No. They open the link you send them and they are in. No password to reset, and they never show up on your bill.
Do you charge per seat?
No. Bring your editors, your producer, your assistant and every client you have. The price is for the account, on every plan, including the free one.
Can somebody pass my client's video around?
Not by copying the address. The cut only plays inside the portal you sent, which matters when the work is not public yet.
What happens when I hit my limit?
Nothing gets deleted and nothing stops working. You move the approved work to a drive you own, which frees the space, or you move up a plan.
What is a workspace?
If you run one shop you do not need it. It is for the person running two brands that should not see each other's clients, and who still wants one bill.
Who is behind Proofbin?
ConnectArt Media Agency LLC, a video production company in Port St. Lucie, Florida. We use it on our own client work every week.
Put one job through it.
Take a job you already have, upload the cut, send the link, and see where it ends up on Friday. The free plan is enough to run that test.