Separate shared and individual risks
A misspelled product name, wrong font or export setting can affect every file. A missing qualification may affect only one passage. Review the common configuration first, then inspect each clip against its own source. Fixing a shared setting can save repetition, but it does not establish that the individual edits are accurate.
Keep a compact acceptance table
For each file record source span, current version, meaning checked, caption checked, export checked and reviewer decision. Use held or not-reviewed states instead of treating an empty cell as approval. The table can be a simple local record. There is no need to adopt another client-management product to make the status explicit.
Do not sample away important differences
A few attractive examples do not prove every clip is suitable. At minimum, inspect each complete thought and the parts where its layout or speaker changes. If volume exceeds review capacity, reduce the deliverable count or change the process. More generated suggestions are not an operational success when the review queue becomes impossible to clear.
Freeze the delivered set
Create a clearly named release folder with only approved versions and the handoff note. Keep revisions separate and identify what changed. If an error is found later, you can locate the affected clips rather than recalling the whole batch from memory. The aim is a recoverable publication decision, not an impressive total of exports.
Do not carry approval across a global change
A template update can affect clips already reviewed. Identify which files were regenerated and inspect the changed captions, placements and ending frames. Keep the earlier approved set until the replacement is accepted. This is especially important when a shared style is applied late in production: the convenience of one click does not make every resulting change editorially insignificant or automatically safe to publish.
Sources used for this page
These records support the facts and comparisons above. Merchant-controlled records are labelled so you can separate product claims from independent evidence.
- Submagic custom-word dictionary — Merchant documentation · care.submagic.co · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-25