Kollaborate Server 2025.2.1 released with emoji comment reactions

We've just released Kollaborate Server 2025.2.1, a major update to our self-hosted workflow platform for video professionals.

The big new feature in this version is emoji comment reactions. Now you can add extra context to a comment by acknowledging it with a thumbs-up, or simply laughing at a joke. We support all modern emojis so you're not limited in the reactions you can choose.

We've also modernized the commenting system and comments are now being delivered by our new backend, which should make them much faster to load than before.

Comment exporting has options allowing you to choose the file encoding, which can help with issues importing certain characters into older apps, but the default of UTF-8 will suffice for the majority of cases.

We've added a new option to export comments to a blank slug in an FCP 7 XML file, which makes exporting into Premiere Pro easier. To import using this method, import the XML file into Premiere and place the slug on your timeline on a track above the content. You can then disable the track or hide the slug to see the content below, while still being able to access the markers. This is an alternative to using our Marker Import app and round-tripping an XML of your entire project. However, despite the existence of this feature, our recommended method of importing markers into Premiere Pro remains to use our Premiere panel.

You can view the full list of changes here after logging in.

There is also a new update to Kollaborate Encoder with minor bug fixes and improvements to burning in watermarks.

Kollaborate is an essential cloud workflow platform that allows you to share files with clients and team members while integrating with Digital Rebellion apps and services. Kollaborate Server allows you to host the platform in-house on your own servers and storage. To find out more, see the Kollaborate Server overview or register for the free cloud trial (Server trials are available on request).