Quick Pitch: Market7 is online video collaboration service that helps people save time, money and energy as they come together to produce video.
Genius Idea: Video production is typically a collaborative effort that combines the creative talents of producers, directors, film editors, writers, and a whole host of other parties. Market7's online product serves to bring these audiences together and make video production project management and group collaboration simple and efficient.
With Market7, users can create video projects that are subdivided with appropriate tools to support pre-production, production, and post-production. Tools include team setup, a comprehensive project brief, and script creation on the pre-production side, task assignment, even creation, and file sharing on the production front, and an annotative player to gather feedback during post-production.
One really neat feature of Market7 is the collaborative script. This particular module supports multi-user script creation and editing, and separates audio and visual elements into separate columns. Users can even add media (like photos or video) to scripts to enhance the storyboarding process, drag and drop scenes, assets and dialog boxes to reorder, add comments, and even get an estimate on the length of the script.
On the post-production side of things, Market7 supports collaboration between clients, producers, and editors with an annotative player. Their video player includes traditional video playback, but also comes complete with the ability to add comments and have threaded discussions within the actual video itself. It's essentially the prefect tool for a group of people to express their thoughts on rough cuts, and go back and forth over particular scenes via in video comments and replies.
Market7 is a freemium product that also includes file, task, and event management for video products. Pricing is based on storage and ranges from $49.95 to $299.95 per month, though there is a free plan that will get you 100MB of storage and 1 project.
As a whole Market7 does a really great job at providing an all-in-one solution for the challenges typically associated with collaborating on video projects. It's certainly something that we can see a number of video creators using to save time and improve communication on projects.
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