Features Overview

A quick guide to understanding Shift

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Set Up Your Account

Create and Manage Projects

Learn how to create your first project and manage its settings.

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Add Your Team

Learn how Shift handles user access and permissions and how to add your team.

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Enterprise Setup: Single Sign-On

Learn how Shift handles Single Sign-On to make authentication rapid and secure for enterprise customers

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Upload Your Files

Uploading Web-Playable Files

How Shift decides what video file to use in the player

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Upload Folders and Files

Learn how to upload folders and files to Shift.

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Upload Specifications & Supported File Types

See our file size limits, upload rules, and what types of files we support for preview and playback

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Manage Your Files

Display Preferences

Find out how to navigate the video player and the projects page.

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Moving/Copying Folders and Files

Learn how to organize folders and files within and across projects.

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Search, Filters, and Facet Menu

Learn how to take advantage of the extensive search features in Shift.

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SafeStream Watermarking

Protect your video assets with personalized visible and forensic watermarking.

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Share Files

Learn how to share files and how to control sharing settings.

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Add Your Audience (Viewer Users)

Learn how to grant confidential access to view-only users for review links and Spotlight presentations.

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Share from Multiple Projects via the Collection Bin

Learn to gather assets across multiple projects to share, download, and create playlists.

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Track Your Link Activity

Learn how to track activity and events on links you have shared.

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Insights

Learn how to track activity on your links, viewers, and shared assets.

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Update Existing Links

Change the settings on a link after it was sent.

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Review Your Files

Collect Feedback on Your Files with the Feed

Learn Shift's new way of organizing review and approval tasks in one place.

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Review and Approve Videos

See how our video player is optimized for review and approval/commenting.

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Review and Approve Images

Learn how to use commenting and annotation features on images.

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Review and Approve Documents

Learn how to use the comment and annotation features with documents.

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Importing Assets

Save time sharing and copying assets across workspaces and projects with the Import feature.

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Manage Multiple Versions

Track Version Changes

Upload new versions and show clients how their notes have been addressed.

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Add Workspaces for New Business Units, Production Partners

Manage Your Workspaces

Learn what a workspace is, how to create one, and how to switch between different workspaces.

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Administration

Administer Your Account

Apply universal settings to your workspace, and manage your users.

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Control Workspace Access with Multi-Factor Authentication Policies

Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication for users to access their workspaces.

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Track Your Usage

See how to manage your users and storage on individual and team accounts.

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Miscellaneous

User Profile Settings

Choose basic preferences for your user profile.

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Secure Your User Profile with Multi-Factor Authentication

Learn how to add an additional layer of security to your Shift account.

Written by Danny Boudreau
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