While working remotely has some amazing perks (hello, cozy sweatpants holding down the fort under my “meeting blazer”), one place where things get really challenging is collaborative feedback. 

You want to be able to get clear feedback and ensure that all critical stakeholders sign off on new edits and media without wasting tons of time going back and forth in endless email chains. You also want to make sure you’re able to make your notes accurate, and with video content, one of the best ways to do that is being able to point directly to the screen and go “that thing!” 

The next best thing to adding one more fingerprint on the monitor with the passive-aggressive “don’t touch” post-it in your editing suite is collaborative feedback software that allows you to annotate video content digitally. 

Thankfully, each year has brought along new tools for digital review and approval that make annotating video content a breeze. 

We’ve compiled our top 7 collaborative video annotation tools that will help your team work more in sync and give more precise feedback throughout the video creation process that can get you out of docs and preserve the magic of collaborative editing, even when you’re far away from the rest of your team. 

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The best video annotation tools for creative teams and beyond

Evercast

Evercast is a remote collaboration platform that allows you to share content, make notes, and communicate with your team in real-time. This allows you to gather your entire team in a virtual “room” where you can answer questions, gather feedback, and even re-edit your content while your team looks on. 

Annotation features:

• Easy on-screen drawing tools for visual annotation
• Timestamped feedback notes for easy, frame-accurate referencing

Other features creatives love:

• Live video chatting while giving feedback
• Recorded collaboration sessions that preserve all comments and annotations
• Can annotate both pre-recorded content and live camera/workstation feeds

Who it’s best for:

One of the biggest benefits of Evercast is that its platform is extremely flexible. You can use it to review advertising pitches, watch live camera feeds, or review new edit versions, all within a single room. 

It works great for any creative team that wants to recreate the feeling of sitting around a conference table and reviewing their work in real-time but enhanced with advanced digital collaboration features.