Commenting and the use of Restricted Comments are an essential part of real-time collaboration in any Media Production environment. In this series of articles, we explain how to swiftly share video fragments, for review and verification. This particular article explains how to use the Restricted comments.


Restricted comments give you the possibility to share comments with a restricted part of the team. In order to make use of this functionality, it needs to be enabled by the production admin on the workspace in question. Additionally, you need to have the permission to create and view restricted comments.


An eye icon is shown next to restricted comment to visualize them in the commenting panel.


Limecraft screenshot illustrating the icon that highlights restricted comments.


A user without permission to view restricted comments will not have them shown in their commenting panel. 


Limecraft screenshot showing the same view for someone without permissions to view restricted comments. No comments with the icon are shown.


This is how you use restricted comments


1. Mark one or more comments restricted to start collaboration with the restricted part of the team.


You can select the security level while typing the comment or select one or more clips to set the security level afterwards.


Limecraft screenshot illustrating how to create restricted comments. You can set the comment restricted while typing it. Or you can select the comment or several comments to set theis security status.


2. Schedule comments for team wide visibility. This makes it very easy to expose all comments with this security level at once.


Limecraft screenshot showing how to change comment visibility to scheduling for team wide visibility.



Limecraft Gif showing how to select all comments that are scheduled to be shown to the team and how to quickly change the visibility to team wide.



Changing the permission from restricted to team-wide visibility gives you the option to set the review status of the clip as well.