Send a Premiere Pro cut to your producer without the media

Your producer has opinions about the cut, and until now the only way to act on them was an email, a guess and another export. A review cut lets them show you. They rearrange, shorten and annotate the video you already rendered, without Premiere and without your media, and you take the changes you agree with back into your own .prproj.

What your producer does

They open a link. On it is your rendered video and the shots in a row underneath. They can:

• drag a shot to a new place,
• drag a shot's ends to make it shorter,
• remove a shot,
• pause and leave a comment,
• drop in a text card such as "shot of dog" where footage doesn't exist yet.

Then they press Send. They never see your project, your bins or your media, and they can't extend a shot past what you rendered. If they need more footage, they add a card saying so.

What you do

1. Save the project in Premiere Pro 26. Projects saved by older versions are refused until you open and save them in the current version.
2. Run the free check. Open the editor, add the .prproj and choose the sequence. The check says what the review cut can edit, what stays in your project untouched (effects, color, titles, markers), and anything to look at after export. Use "Try an import-ready example" first if you want to see it on a sample.
3. Share it with your render. Share the sequence, upload the review video you exported from it, and invite your producer as a commenter. The render must match the sequence's frame count and rate. Uploads are limited to 250 MiB and ten minutes.
4. Compare and accept. Your producer's version arrives as a proposal. Compare it with your cut side by side and merge what you want.
5. Export and open in Premiere. Run the free native check, export, and open the edited .prproj in Premiere Pro.

What comes back

The file you started with, with only the cuts you accepted changed. Clips still point at your original media. Comments and accepted proposals arrive as sequence markers at their frames. A text card becomes a gap of its length with a marker carrying the text. A Premiere sequence ends at its last clip, so a card after the last shot arrives as a Black Video clip of the card's length, with the marker.

We checked this with Premiere Pro 26 itself. A producer's reordered, shortened and carded cut, with a comment, was exported, saved by Premiere and read back. All 13 clip ranges and every marker matched. That was a test project, not your project, so open the result and check it against your media before you deliver.

What it won't write back yet

New titles typed in the browser, speed changes through effects, nests or ramps, and sources longer than ten minutes. The free check names any of these before you pay.

FAQ

Does my producer need Premiere or my footage? No. They see the video you rendered and the shots in a row. They never download your project or your media.

What happens to my effects and color? They stay in your project as they were. Only the cuts you accept change, and comments arrive as sequence markers.

What does it cost? Your first native project export is free after sign-in. After that it is $5 per project, or included with Pro. Producers never pay.