Everything you need to run the studio.
Short, practical articles. If something is missing, write to us — the docs are written by the people who build Orbit.
Getting started
Your first project, start to finish
Install the Windows app, sign in, create the studio and invite the team. Then add one project, plan its shots, and send one client link. Everything else can wait.
Set up a project
Client, next delivery, budget and a short brief, then the shot list.
Plan it on the timeline
Drag shots into place and link the ones that wait on each other.
Send a review link
Per-recipient links with expiry, view limits, a watermark and a view log.
Invoice the work
Your own template, payments logged as they land.
Projects & shots
Statuses that follow the work
A project moves through the studio pipeline: Lead, Quoted, Planned, Accepted, Working, In review, Waiting on Client, Approved, Delivered, Completed (or Cancelled, Failed / Lost). Each shot inside it has its own stage.
| Shot stage | What it means |
|---|---|
| To do | Planned, not started. |
| In progress | Someone is working on it. |
| Internal review / Client review | A version is with the team, or with the client. |
| Changes | Notes came back; it’s being revised. |
| Blocked | Waiting on something: plates, a decision, another shot. |
| Approved | Signed off. Ticking a shot done approves it. |
Every shot can carry an owner, a start and due date, a priority, an estimate in hours, notes and one level of subtasks. Overdue shots turn red.
Timeline
Move a date, and later shots follow
The Timeline tab shows each shot as a bar from start to due, with today and the project’s delivery date marked.
Reschedule
Drag a bar to move it, or its edges to change the start or due date. Arrow keys move a selected bar a day at a time.
Link shots
Drag from a bar’s end dot onto another shot, or use “Waits for” in the shot’s details. Orbit refuses links that would loop.
Knock-on effects
When a shot slips, the shots waiting on it move later if they’d overlap, keeping their length. Approved shots stay put.
Broken links
If a shot starts before what it waits for, its arrow turns red. Click an arrow to unlink.
Review & client links
Notes on the frame, and links that behave
Review a cut with frame-accurate scrubbing, timecoded notes and drawings on the frame. Compare two versions side by side. Frame.io notes can be brought in when you connect an account.
One link per person
Each recipient gets their own link, with an expiry and a view limit, and you can revoke it any time.
Watermark and view log
The viewer’s name is burned into playback. Every view and download is logged.
Money
Received, outstanding, and nothing counted twice
Draft invoices in your studio’s own template and export them. Log payments against the invoice as they arrive, including partial ones. Expenses sit next to the project they belong to.
Card payments through Stripe, with sales tax at checkout, are on the roadmap.
Voice rooms
Rooms, screen share and control
The studio lounge and review rooms live in the sidebar of the desktop app. Share a screen or a single window from Orbit’s own picker, with system audio.
Remote control
You can let someone in the room control your screen. Ctrl+Alt+Esc takes it back from anywhere.
Browser guests Coming
Client guests joining from a browser, with a lobby the host controls.
Ask Orbit
Ask in plain words
Ask Orbit answers from your studio: projects, shots, deadlines, invoices and payments. It can make changes too, like “move delivery to Friday” or “invoice Aurora”, and every change comes as a card you apply or undo.
Account
Your sign-in
One Orbit account per person. From account security you can sign out of every device at once.
Two-factor sign-in is on the roadmap.