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url: https://docs.revis.io/reviews/open-a-review.md
description: >-
  Expand a review to see its items, preview them without leaving the page, and
  open the review in the player.
---

# Open a review and preview its items

Open a review from your project's **Reviews** page. Expand it to see its items, press **Space** for a quick look, or select the play button to open it in the player, where comments and item details sit next to the media.

::: info Before you start

* **Who:** any member of the project. Guests open a review from the share link they were sent; see [Comment, draw and set status as a guest](/sharing/what-guests-can-do).
* **Where:** the web app.
* **You need:** a review with at least one item.
  :::

## Expand a review

1. Open the project and select **Reviews** in the left sidebar.
2. Select a review's name to expand it. Its items appear below the row. You can expand several reviews at once.

Each row shows the review's status and how many items it holds. Point to the row for more buttons, such as **Open notes reel** (every comment in the review in one list) and the three-dot menu. Which ones you get depends on your role and the window's width; on a narrow window, right-click the row instead.

## Preview items without opening the player

1. In an expanded review, select the item you want to start with.
2. Press **Space**. Quick Preview opens over the page.
3. Press **Esc** to close it.

While Quick Preview is open:

* The left and right arrow keys move between items.
* **A** fits the item to the window, and **1** shows it at 100%.
* **G** switches between a grid of the items and a single item.
* **Space** plays and pauses a video.

## Open the review in the player

1. Select the play button at the right end of the review's row.
2. If the playlist on the left is hidden, select **Show playlist**, or point to the left edge to see the items.
3. Select an item in the playlist to play it.

To open the review in a new browser tab, hold `⌘` (`Ctrl` on Windows and Linux) while you select the play button. To start at a particular item, double-click that item in the expanded review. Double-clicking an item's name renames it instead.

## Find your way around the player

* **Notes**, **Activity**, **Details**, and **Metadata**, on the right edge:
  * **Notes** holds the comments on the current item. revis.io calls comments "notes" in some places.
  * **Activity** lists what happened to the current item.
  * **Details** shows the item's description, plus chapters and a transcript when the item includes them. Select a chapter to jump to it.
  * **Metadata** shows the item's technical information, such as its resolution, frame rate, duration, and file size.
* **At the top:** the item's name, with **Item actions** next to it when you point to it, then the review's status, **Share**, the notes reel, and **Chat**.
* **Hide playlist**, at the top of the playlist, gives the media more room.

If someone sends you a link to a comment, the review opens at that comment's frame. Open **Notes** to read the comment.