🎬 YOUR FIRST STEPS

Welcome to
Dailies Delivery

A home for your production projects and media, with a shared point of reference for your team.

The idea

Each project represents a shoot, film, or production. Browse folders and media inside it, then open an item in the viewer. Files stay in locations managed by your server; Dailies Delivery helps organize and review them.

📁 Create or import

Start a project or choose an existing folder.

🧭 Select a project

Find it in your project list.

🖼️ Browse and review

Use folders, thumbnails, and the player.

Your first five steps

Open the server address in your browser and sign in.
Choose “Import / New project”, then create an empty project or select an existing folder. Existing folders must be accessible from the computer hosting Dailies Delivery.
Select the project in “Project List”. Click its name to view its contents; archived projects can be restored from the archive control.
Browse folders and thumbnails, then click an item to preview it. Videos and images open in the viewer; PDFs use the browser’s built-in viewer, and common text files (TXT, Markdown, CSV, logs, and similar formats) appear directly in the viewer. Controls vary by format.
Use Preferences → Appearance to adjust personal settings such as language. Administrator settings are restricted to admin accounts.

Understand the main screen

🗂️ Project List

Choose a project, sort the list, or view archived projects. Shared projects appear in sections named after their source server.

🎞️ Viewer

The selected item appears in the center. Use the playback controls to review it.

🖼️ Thumbnails

Browse folders and identify media visually. Panel layout can be adjusted.

“Import media” opens the import workflow. Available folders depend on server permissions and configuration.

Plan work with a project timeline

Each project can have its own timeline of key dates. Open Timeline to add milestones with a title, date, optional note, owner, and status. Colors identify upcoming, in progress, delivery date, completed, and at-risk milestones. Week numbers appear softly in the background; when the timeline spans multiple weeks, blurred white vertical dividers mark the transitions between them.

Owners can be local users, people accessible through federation, or a name entered manually. Email is optional; without an email, the milestone can still be saved but reminders cannot be sent. Configure reminders such as 3 days and 1 day before a milestone; email delivery requires an address and SMTP configuration on the server.

A federated or external person's email can be entered manually if they should receive reminders.

Work with your team

Ask an administrator to create an account if you do not have one.
Groups help organize projects by team or production.
Personal preferences are under ⚙️. System settings are for administrators.
Administrators configure and check backups from the dedicated tab.

Project meetings

The project’s Team list shows everyone authorized to access it and indicates who is online. Click 👥 Meeting to open the shared group conversation, even when other people are not online at the same time. Federated team members can join too.

Each message is timestamped and added to Compte rendu de la Réunion.txt inside the project’s Compte rendu de la Réunion folder. Authorized participants can vote to approve or reject a shared media item. Its card gets a green outline when approved and a red outline as soon as a rejection is recorded; each person’s latest vote counts. Each shared media item also has an 📝 Annotation button that opens its own discussion drawer. Annotations show the author and timestamp and are shared with authorized federated participants.

Use ⬇ Text to download the conversation, annotations, and vote summary, or 📄 Illustrated PDF for a landscape edit notebook: a large thumbnail on the left, with status, location, and voter names in a side panel, followed by timestamped annotation pages for each media item. ✉ Send by email opens a form for recipients, subject, and message; the PDF is attached with an automatic “Sent via Dailies Delivery” signature. SMTP must be configured and enabled on the server.

Approve and certify a delivery

Prepare a delivery with Deliver and share it with its recipients. Each recipient can choose Agree without entering a comment. A comment remains optional; it is requested when reporting an issue or asking for a change.

When certification is pending, a shortcut appears beside Deliver and opens the delivery dashboard under Preferences → Deliveries. The dashboard summarizes delivery status and approvals. Once all media have been approved, an authorized user can certify the delivery and download its receipt.

Certification records the state saved in Dailies Delivery at the stated time. It does not, by itself, prove that a recipient downloaded or viewed the files.

Upload from the Android Companion

On the server, open Preferences → Assistance → Companion and generate a QR code or temporary pairing code. Scan it in the Android app to associate the device with your profile. The server address is remembered, and an administrator can revoke the pairing.

Choose an authorized project or create one, then select a source folder. Android must mount a camera or USB storage first; browse to it and search for DCIM if needed. Select photos, videos, or audio and start the upload. Per-item progress shows percentage and speed. Transfers can continue in the background, and the history separates in-progress and completed uploads. Original filenames are preserved and the server verifies received files.

The app can lock when sent to the background without stopping an active transfer. Read the full Companion guide →

Using multiple servers?

Federation is optional. It connects servers while projects, media, and accounts stay on their source server. Shared projects appear in a dedicated section named after the server that hosts them and are available in read-only mode.

Federated Library: an administrator can also publish one folder of shared resources. In Preferences → Federation, they choose the folder and share it with all servers, including future ones, or selected servers only. It appears in red and is read-only.

Read the Federation guide →

Quick help

No projects are visible

Create a project or import a folder. If a folder is missing, ask an administrator to check access from the server.

A folder cannot be opened

Visible paths depend on the host machine and allowed locations. Ask an administrator to check the configuration.

A video does not play as expected

Try another thumbnail, then ask your administrator to check format support and the media path.

See Troubleshooting, Installation, and Data and storage.