The media editor is where review happens in Soontra. Open a file and you get a viewer built for that kind of content — a player for video and audio, a full-size view for images, a page-by-page reader for PDFs — with the conversation about it running alongside.
Nothing lives in a separate tool: the file, the transcript, and the feedback share one screen.
Open any file in the media editor
Open a video, audio file, image, or PDF from your Drive and it loads in the media editor. The layout adapts to the file: video and audio get a player plus a transcript panel, while every file type gets the comments rail beside it.
The transcript panel
For indexed video and audio, the transcript panel shows everything said in the file, line by line. The transcript comes from AI indexing — the same processing that makes your files searchable — so it is ready as soon as the file is.
The transcript is interactive: click any line to jump the player to that moment. Skimming an hour-long interview becomes reading, not scrubbing.
Comments live next to the content
The comments rail sits beside the viewer, so feedback and content share the screen. Reviewers write comments, reply in threads, react, and resolve notes when they are handled — and comments can be anchored to an exact second, spot, or page, covered in detail in precise annotations. For how threads, reactions, and mentions work everywhere in Soontra, see comments and mentions.
Annotate images and frames
For images, the media editor includes drawing tools: circle the corner that feels off or mark the exact area to change, right on the image. The annotation is saved with your comment, so "this part" always means one specific part.
PDFs page by page
PDFs open in a viewer that flips page by page, with comments anchored to the page they belong to. A note on page 14 of a sponsor brief stays on page 14 — nobody has to describe where in the document they mean.