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🚀 Join us for an exclusive Dropbox & Microsoft integrations webinar! 🚀
Hello everyone, Are you ready to supercharge your productivity and collaboration capabilities? If so, we have some exciting news for you! Join Dropbox Product Managers Austin Nichols and Megane Racat as they walk through exciting new ways to store, organize, and share content across two of your favorite tools, so your team can get more done with less hassle. Date & Time: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 ,at 11:00 AM PT | 2:00 PM ET You’ll learn how to: Collaboratively editMicrosoft desktop, web, and mobile files, and save them to Dropbox with no interruptions or conflicted copies. Search, preview, upload, and share contentstored in Dropbox without ever leaving the Teams app. Bring media files from OneDrive directly into Dropbox Replayfor reviews and approvals. Use Microsoft Copilot on Dropbox contentin Microsoft Teams to answer questions, serve rich content or actions, and include sources. Don’t miss this opportunity to help your team stay organized and push projects and decisions forward in even less time. Followthis linkto register now!Get to know Dropbox Replay
Update: We have some exciting new updates about Dropbox Replay, but rather than telling you all about it here, you can check out a new post here. You might have seen us mention Dropbox Replay before, but I don’t think we made it clear just how useful this new video editing tool is. So, here are some updates, some tried and true, some examples and some images to whet your whistle. Dropbox Replay makes it easy to consolidate comments, take action on feedback, and finalize your video and audio projects in one place. Here are some new updates to get you thinking about your own projects: Ability to set password protection on Replay files Right now, both view only, and view and comment shared links can be viewed by anyone with the shared link. Now you will be able to also have the option of adding password protection to your shared links. This means you can upgrade your security for certain files but ensures you can still share with the right people easily. Why not refresh on how to share links? Image and Audio feedback on Replay If you are a video editor, you might prefer to share images or audio for feedback from your clients as pasrt of your creative process. Upload Subtitles/Captions: Replay is launching the ability to support adding subtitles to videos. This will help you to ensure your videos are accessible and inclusive upon delivery. We’ll update you on the details of that soon so keep your eyes peeled! Those are the new features but of course, don’t forget you can already use Replay to: Create a virtual viewing room: Let everyone watch and mark up the same video at the same time—with smooth, high definition video playback that stays in sync for all viewers. Simplify video sharing: Send video and audio out for review with just a link—no more exporting compressed versions and cluttering your hard drive. Get feedback from anyone: Browser-based reviews let anyone provide frame-accurate feedback and on-screen markups—no special software or Dropbox account needed. Take action on feedback: Send revised versions out for review and respond to comments directly from editors including Adobe Premiere Pro, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, LumaFusion, and WeVideo. Keep versions under control: Track every version of your video project—including comments and markups for each—in one place. So, let’s imagine you are working on a promo video, no matter what you’re into, gaming, your small business, a recipe - anything at all. Chances are, you will want some feedback before you push it live, so you upload your video and send a link to your friends, family or colleagues. They can come back in their own time with specific feedback, and see each other’s comments (or audio and image feedback now as well) too so it’s a collaborative effort. All of your feedback and updated versions can live in one place, and ensure you push the correct version live when you’re ready. You can even password protect this file to ensure no one sends on the wrong version, and add captions to your files too. Sounds like a good process to me - and trust me, I have definitely clicked send on the wrong file more than once! But you don’t just have to take my word for it, here is a quote from Rachel Jedwood, the Production Officer of the National Rugby League: “We use Replay for our content that requires lots of feedback and iterations, like campaigns with our players and commercial marketing materials. With Replay, we can share our feedback in one place, keep all the conversations documented in the comment threads, and have everything we need for edits and final delivery.” Still need some more convincing? Our own Super User, Lukeyo uses Replay to keep his documentary edits in line too. "Getting towards the end of a recent project, I needed some really specific feedback on very specific sections of the film, and Replay kept that all in one place. I really like ti when something works that simply. When you tick off the feedback in Replay, it‘s ’like ticking off a real life to-do list - when I go shopping and I’ve bought the milk and I never need to think about that again, so it’s finished.” I have to admit, I love the simplicity of that lukeyo! Are you using Dropbox Replay yet? We want to know about it! Tell us in the comments below
Office Downloading Files Even Though Locally Synced through MacOS App
One thing our users have noticed is that in order to take advantage of the Co-Authoring ability, Word or Excel files need to be opened through File ➜ Open ➜ Dropbox (Beta) and navigating to the file. This causes Office to then display a "downloading" window and download the file even when it is already locally synced on the computer via the Desktop app. When users open up a document from the Finder, Co-Authoring is not available. Are there any plans to add the ability in the office plugin to detect when a file is already local and just open the file? Or to be able to add Co-Authoring from locally open documents? Most users have "muscle" memory to navigate to the file on their desktop/Finder and open from there vs the File➜Open menus in Office.Want to share your feedback?
Welcome to the Microsoft co-authoring beta for Dropbox space. If you’re here, you might already know that we are looking for feedback on our new desktop co-authoring tool. Any feedback you can share with us will be invaluable as we continue to work on this experience, so you can have your say now. If that sounds interesting to you, below are some of the guidelines for how to enable co-authoring and how to report your findings. How to Enable To get started, add Dropbox as a Place (Windows) or Storage account (Mac). To do so: Open Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel on your desktop. Click File. Click Open. Click Add a Place (Windows) or Manage Storage Accounts (Mac). Click Dropbox (Beta). Log in with your Dropbox credentials. Click Log in. This will now add Dropbox as a location to open and save files. Co-Authoring Requirements You will need the following in order to use the co-authoring function: Office 365 Business license is required Perpetual licenses (e.g., Office 2016, 2019 etc.) are not supported. Customers must be on a Dropbox Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus, or Enterprise plan. How to Submit Bugs? If you notice any bugs while testing, please submit them to this address: https://www.dropbox.com/support/email. Known Issues We’re aware of some issues already, listed below, so no need to share these ones, but if you see anything additional or have feedback on these, please report that: Files larger than 100 MB will be slow – especially if you have many other programs open at once. You cannot open files larger than 250 MB. If you’re collaborating with external partners (or anyone without co-authoring), they need to have co-authoring enabled to edit on web. If not, they’ll be able to open a “view-only” copy. If there are issues opening files directly from File Explorer or Finder, please try opening files inside Office 365 apps to start co-authoring. After adding Dropbox (Beta) - all other open Office applications should be restarted (to avoid necessity of signing-in multiple times) OAuth flow on mobile is a bit tricky. It will try to open the Dropbox app after you enter your email. You need to hit cancel in the top left and continue the OAuth flow inside the office app If Dropbox (Beta) is not present on mobile devices (iOS, Android) after successful sign in to Microsoft account - please restart application. For co-authoring Word Doc on MacOS - there is some lag for live edits (by other authors) to be shown regardless of the file size. This is especially true when just starting a session. Once users connect Dropbox storage inside Office 365 apps to enable co-authoring, Dropbox Badge will no longer be supported Joining Beta Waitlist If you and your team are interested in the Microsoft Co-Authoring beta, please submit this form to be added to the waiting list. We truly appreciate you testing this beta, and please share any and all feedback with us so that we can make desktop co-authoring experience the best it can be. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
