Streamlining Feedback Loops in Collaborative Editing

A recent collaborative editing project taught me a lot about optimizing feedback loops. Our primary challenge was ensuring everyone's notes were clear, actionable, and centrally located, rather than scattered across emails and chat threads. We tried using a shared Google Doc for notes, which quickly became unwieldy with multiple contributors. The breakthrough came with integrating Frame.io directly into our Adobe Premiere Pro workflow. What worked exceptionally well was Frame.io's timestamped comment feature, allowing each stakeholder, director, producer, sound designer, to pinpoint exact moments and articulate their feedback verbally or textually right on the clip. The version stacking also proved invaluable, letting us cycle through cuts and see precisely what had changed. What didn't work was trying to conduct real-time 'live' feedback sessions through the platform; it felt clunky and less efficient than a dedicated video call for synchronous discussions. I found that asynchronous, detailed feedback through Frame.io, followed by a consolidated discussion call, was the sweet spot. I'm now curious: for those larger projects with 5+ stakeholders, what strategies do you use to synthesize potentially conflicting notes into a single, cohesive action plan for the editor?