Focus is where the reviews that need your attention gather — the ones still waiting on you to watch, or to move along. Rather than searching the whole library, you can glance here to see what's outstanding. It stays quiet until something needs you and clears as you work through it; anything you've finished with remains available under All Reviews.
What you see here depends on your role. For most people Focus is a single Queue; if you manage the workspace, it opens into a wider, workspace-level view.
Your Queue
The Queue holds the reviews currently waiting on you — the longest-waiting near the top, with anything new pinned above. Each one shows its type (Dailies Reel or Cut), where it came from, and where it stands with you:
To Watch — it's arrived and is waiting for a first look.
Watching — you've started, and it remembers where you left off.
Awaiting Release — you've watched it and you're a named releaser on its workflow stage, so it's waiting on your approval. Releasing it passes the review to the next stage and the people waiting there.
The thumbnail opens a review straight into the player. Clicking elsewhere on the row slides out the review drawer with more about what's inside — a closer look at the review's contents before you settle in to watch.
Reviews leave the Queue on their own once you've dealt with them, and you can clear anything you no longer need to watch by hand — the × shows on hover on the web, or on row swipe on iPad — keeping Focus tidy and free of deadwood. When the Queue is busy, the Project and Status filters narrow it down.
If you manage the workspace
Workspace Managers get an enhanced Focus, split into three tabs so you can see what needs attention across the workspace, not only what's landed with you.
Queue
Your own reviews, exactly as above — with one addition. Any review that stalls in a workflow anywhere in your workspace surfaces here as Blocked: once a review has sat on a stage for more than three days without anyone releasing it, it appears in your Queue even if it was never sent to you, so a hand-off that's gone quiet doesn't slip out of sight. You can release any stage of a review in a workspace you manage, so a blocked one is yours to move along.
Projects
A wider view of everything currently in flight across the projects you manage — the reviews still moving through a workflow, rather than the ones already finished with. A review stays in flight until it settles: right up to three days after it reaches the workflow's final stage, then it drops away. Reviews are grouped by project, each with a count of what's in flight and what needs your attention.
Coming soon: an at-a-glance view of who has and hasn't watched each review.
Workflows (coming soon)
A board of reviews laid out across their workflow stages, for a sense of what's moving and what's held up.
A New badge means the review reached you in the last three days and hasn't been opened yet.