KROCK.IO

KROCK.IO provides video review software with online proofing, audio annotation, a free storyboard creator, animatic tooling and project management, integrating with DaVinci Resolve Studio, Adobe Creative Cloud and Apple Final Cut Pro, with unlimited reviewers on every plan.

Covering storyboards and animatics alongside finished video is what distinguishes this from general video review, and it matters because animation is reviewed differently from live action.

An animation production is approved in stages that do not exist in other video work. The storyboard establishes shot composition and timing before anything is drawn. The animatic sets timing against audio using rough images. Only then does actual animation begin, and by that point the expensive work is committed.

Getting approval at each of those stages is what prevents catastrophe, because a client who says at the animatic stage that a sequence does not work has cost days, and the same objection raised after final animation has cost weeks that cannot be recovered.

A review tool that only accepts finished video handles the last stage and none of the earlier ones, which pushes the most consequential approvals back into email and shared folders.

Audio annotation is the other capability worth noting and it is rarer than it should be. In animation, timing against dialogue and score is fundamental, and feedback about audio needs to be placed against the waveform at a specific moment rather than described as roughly two thirds of the way through.

Integrating with DaVinci Resolve, Creative Cloud and Final Cut means comments reach the tools where the work is actually done rather than requiring an editor to transcribe them.

Pricing is published with a free tier at $0 including unlimited reviewers, one workspace and two projects, a $10 tier, and a $400 figure published within the range covering custom branding and storage additions.