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Upload a new version and see version history
When you have a newer export of a file, upload it as a new version. revis.io stacks it on the original, and each version keeps its own comments. When you upload from a review, that review switches to the new version.
Before you start
- Who: to upload a new version, or switch a review to another version, the organization's Owners, Admins, and Members, and the project's Project Admins and Contributors. Anyone who can see the item can open its version list.
- Where: the web app.
- You need: the item in a review or in Files & Folders, the new file in a supported format up to 10 GB, and media uploads turned on for your organization.
Upload a new version
- In the player, point to the item's name at the top and select Item actions (the three dots next to it).
- Select Upload new versions, then choose one or more files.
- Follow the uploads in Uploads at the bottom right. You can pause one, or cancel it to skip that file.
On the Reviews page or in Files & Folders, right-click the item and select Upload new versions there instead.
When you choose several files, each becomes its own version, numbered in filename order: logo_v2.png comes before logo_v10.png. In a review, the item switches to the last of them.
The new version keeps the item's name and folder. In a review, the item switches to the new version as soon as the files have uploaded, and shows a version badge: V2 after the first new version, then V3, and so on. Other reviews that hold the item keep the version they had. In Files & Folders, the item's tile shows the new version. While revis.io processes the file, the item shows Processing....
Items linked to Autodesk Flow Production Tracking don't offer Upload new versions. Flow manages their versions.
Transcript
Here's how to stack a fresh export on the old one, and keep every version within reach. The editor just sent a new cut of the logo reveal. In the player, point to the item's name at the top.
Then select Item actions, the three dots beside it. Select Upload new version, then choose the new export. Uploads, at the bottom right, follows the file on its way up.
You can pause it here, or cancel it to keep the current version. As soon as the file has uploaded, this review switches to the new version. Its thumbnail now wears a V2 badge, and the next version you upload becomes V3.
To see every version, select the V2 badge, top left of the thumbnail. There's the whole history, newest first, with who uploaded each version and when. Say the director wants one more look at the original.
Select V1 to show it in this review. The badge turns red, a quiet reminder that a newer version is waiting. Now each new cut you upload as a version stacks on the same item.
The latest is always one badge away.
Add new versions by dropping files
When you drop or upload files whose names match items in the review, or in the folder you're viewing in Files & Folders, Matching files found opens. Choose Add as new versions to stack each matching file on its match. Add media to a review explains the other choices and how names match.
revis.io doesn't read version numbers in names, so shot_v002.mov doesn't match shot_v001.mov.
See version history
- Select the version badge at the top left of the item's thumbnail, for example V2. The list shows every version, newest first, with who uploaded it and when.
- To show another version in this review, select it in the list.
The badge is red when the version shown isn't the newest one. It shows in the player's playlist and in the grid of a review or Files & Folders; an item that has never had a new version has no badge. Switching the version in a review clears the item's trim, and other reviews that hold the item keep their own version.
From the list you can also select Upload new versions, or Compare versions when there are two or more.
If the upload doesn't go through
In each case, the current version stays as it is, unless the file uploaded but revis.io couldn't start processing it: then the new version is still added and the review switches to it. When you upload several files, the others still go through.
- Unsupported file format or File too large names the file revis.io refused. Check the supported formats and limits.
- Uploads disabled means an admin has turned off media uploads for your organization.
- Failed to upload new version, followed by the file name (or Failed to upload N new versions with the names listed), covers anything else. Try again, and see An upload stopped, vanished, or failed.