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Getting Started›
  • What is HoldFast?
  • Upload your first video
  • Quickstart: send your first review link
  • Review links, reels, and presentations: which one to use
  • Set up your workspace in ten minutes
Projects & Uploads›
  • Organize a project with folders
  • Sort, filter, and switch view modes
  • Tag your library
  • Asset View: every clip across projects
  • Upload large files
  • Auto-ingest with a Local Watch Folder
  • What "Optimizing" means
  • Playback quality: 1080p free, up to 4K on paid plans
  • Find anything with search
Player & Review›
  • Review a cut on the asset page
  • Player shortcuts: J K L, frame stepping, and timecode
  • Trim a clip with Set In and Set Out
  • Set a custom thumbnail
Review Links›
  • How to send a video for review
  • Timecoded comments & annotations
  • Password-protect a review link
  • Set a review link to expire
  • Turn a review link off
  • Let reviewers download files
  • Attach files to comments
  • Brand a review link
  • Review link settings reference
  • Send a new cut without breaking the link
  • Draw on the frame
  • Compare two cuts side by side
  • Pre-generate transcripts before your client opens the link
  • Collect approvals on a cut
Versions›
  • How versions work: two switches, and the filename is the label
  • Add a new version
  • The quiet fix: swap the file, keep the link
  • Publish a cut for reviewers to browse
  • Stage a draft without making it live
  • Roll back with Make active
  • Rename or delete a version
Reels›
  • How to make a showreel
  • Brand a reel
  • Personalized links for sales outreach
  • Share a single video with a public link
  • Embed a reel on your website
  • Publish a gallery on your website
  • Display & Playback: auto-advance, titles, loudness
  • Director pages
  • Capture leads with an email gate
  • Vertical reels: curate by category
Presentations›
  • How to share a presentation online
  • Roll back a presentation to an earlier version
  • Per-recipient links for a presentation
  • Covers and social previews
  • Upload a PDF, PowerPoint, or web deck
  • Embed Google Slides, Figma, or Canva
  • Gate a deck with a password or an email
  • Watermark a deck
  • Add a personal intro video to a proposal
  • Read deck analytics slide by slide
  • Get pinged when someone opens your deck
Insights›
  • How to see who watched your video
  • Engagement scoring explained
  • The intelligence feed & morning brief
  • Get alerted when someone is watching
  • Explore viewers & events
  • Consent, Global Privacy Control, and what your viewers see
  • Set up Slack or Mattermost alerts
  • Fix a wrong company attribution
  • Why it says "Possible X visitor": how attribution is graded
  • Exclude your own team from analytics
  • Export or erase a viewer (GDPR / CCPA)
Transcripts›
  • Transcripts on a public review link
  • How to transcribe a video
  • Comment straight from the transcript
  • Export captions and transcripts
Integrations›
  • Verify webhook signatures
  • Sync engagement to Copper
  • Connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools over MCP
  • Create and manage API tokens
  • Premiere Pro plugin
  • HoldFast API reference
For Reviewers›
  • You've been sent a review link: leave your first comment
  • Draw on the frame to show exactly what you mean
  • Approve a cut or request changes
  • Download the files
  • Passwords, expired links, and access problems
  • Browse other versions of the cut
  • The cookie banner and what gets tracked
  • Watching a reel or presentation someone sent you
Contacts & Outreach›
  • Import contacts from Google, Outlook, vCard, or CSV
  • Send a reel or review link by email from HoldFast
  • Open and click tracking, honestly
  • Brand your notification emails
  • Send through your own email domain (SMTP)
Workspace & Plans›
  • Plans & limits reference
  • Roles & permissions
  • Set up your brand kit
  • Invite and manage your team
  • See what's using your storage
  • Add storage to your plan
  • Cancel or archive: what happens to your links
  • Create a second workspace
Backups›
  • Back up your Vimeo library
  • Fix Vimeo backup failures
Troubleshooting & FAQ›
  • My client says the video won't play
  • My upload failed or stalled
  • It still says "Optimizing"
  • There's a lock icon on a feature
  • Do my reviewers need an account?
  • Is my video public once I share a link?
  • Transcription is unavailable on this device
  • My PowerPoint renders wrong
  • My embedded deck shows a permission error
  • A reviewer can't open the link
  • Notification emails aren't arriving
  • Why am I my own hottest viewer?
  • What file types can I upload?
  • What happens to my links if I cancel?
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Player & Review

The frame-accurate player, J K L shortcuts, trims, and thumbnails.

Review a cut on the asset page

One page holds the whole internal review: frame-accurate player on the left, and everything about the asset in four tabs on the right.

Player shortcuts: J K L, frame stepping, and timecode

The whole keyboard: play, step, jump, mute, fullscreen, loop, and a timecode display that speaks editor.

Trim a clip with Set In and Set Out

In and out points without a re-export: the file stays whole, and everywhere the clip is shared plays only the range you chose.

Set a custom thumbnail

Scrub to the frame that sells the clip, click once, and that frame fronts the asset everywhere it appears.

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