Some notes only make sense when you're both looking at the same frame. Over a call, "scroll down a bit, no, back up, the cut around 04:12" wastes minutes and still lands in the wrong place. You need to see exactly what your teammate sees.
In Sequence, click a collaborator's avatar in the project header and your view snaps to theirs. As they switch timelines, scroll, and zoom, your view moves with them — so you're watching the same cut, live, instead of describing coordinates. See Follow a collaborator's view.
While you follow, the avatar you clicked gains a highlighted ring and a frame in that editor's color appears around the timeline, so it's always clear whose view you're mirroring. Following mirrors what they're looking at — it doesn't take your cursor. You can still make your own selections and edits the whole time. To stop, click the avatar again, click anywhere outside the header avatars, or just scroll or zoom the timeline yourself.
What it's good for#
Review a cut together, live
- Follow the editor driving the session and watch changes land in real time
- No screen-share lag and no "which timeline are you on?" — you're in the same project
- Break away instantly to check something, then re-follow with one click
Catch up in seconds
- Drop into a project and follow whoever's working to see what just changed
- Follow a senior editor to learn how they trim and structure a sequence
- Keep a quick note flowing with Cursor Chat — press / while over the timeline
Fits how your team already reviews#
Follow Mode is for the people actively editing the project together — it slots into a working session alongside real-time multiplayer editing and comments, so a review doesn't mean exporting anything.
For reviewers who aren't in the project — a director, a client, an outside producer — send a screening instead. They get a shareable player and comment panel without editing access. See Share a screening for review.
Who it's for#
- Editors running a live review with a collaborator in the same project
- Assistant editors catching up on what changed since they last looked
- Junior editors learning a senior editor's cutting technique in real time
- Post teams coordinating a working session without a screen-share