# Watch a Review

Playing Reviews in the Review Player

July 9, 2026

## Finding something to watch

For most studio users, the **Screening Room** is the way in — the most relevant content surfaces here automatically. Anything new, or that you recently left off, shows up without you going looking for it. You can also curate the space with **[Watchlists](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742848-create-a-watchlist)**, lining up reviews to watch later.

Anything that still needs your attention also appears in **[Focus](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742833-focus)**.

You can open the player from anywhere a review appears — Screening Room, Focus and **[All Reviews](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742844-all-reviews)**.

## Opening a review

1. Open **Screening Room** from the sidebar.

2. New arrivals appear in the **New** row; anything you've started is under **Continue Watching**.

3. Click a review to start playing.

## In the player

## Playback controls

Play/Pause and frame forward/back sit at the bottom left. You can also use the keyboard: **Spacebar** plays and pauses, and the **arrow keys** jog a frame at a time.

## General navigation

The current clip or shot name shows in the footer. The forward and back buttons either side of it step through the content.

- Click and drag on the progress bar to **scrub**.
- Click the **timecode** to switch between **Timecode** (SMPTE frame count) and **Time** (elapsed real time).

## Player controls

The footer also holds:

- **Mute** — toggles audio on and off.
- **Fullscreen** — expands the player to fill the screen.
- **Playback speed** — opens a menu to speed up playback: 1× (default), 1.25×, 1.5× or 2×.
- **View settings** (slider icon) — chooses how the review streams (picture quality and format). See [Get the best playback](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742849-get-the-best-playback).

The on-screen watermark is part of your production's security settings and can't be turned off in the player.

## Navigating dailies and cuts

### Dailies navigation

Dailies open in a browsing mode with shot-level navigation shown by default: a sideways-scrolling bar displaying every shot in the reel.

You can order and filter this view:

- **Order** by script or shoot order.
- **Filter by camera**, on a multi-camera shoot.
- Filter to **circle takes** only, where circle take information is available.

To hide the bar, click **Hide Shots** at the bottom left.

### Cuts navigation

Cuts open with scene-level navigation closed by default. Click **Show Scenes** at the bottom left to open it.

If scene-level navigation isn't available, the content was likely uploaded without timeline information.

If playback doesn't look or feel right, see [Get the best playback](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742849-get-the-best-playback).