Studio Projects vs Studio Sessions

Designed for anyone working with project documents in Bluebeam Revu, this video explains the core differences between Studio Projects and Studio Sessions so you can choose the right workspace for each task. You will see how Projects act as your long-term document hub while Sessions provide a real-time collaboration space for PDF reviews.

Studio Projects function like a secure, cloud-based filing cabinet where you store drawing sets, contracts, photos, and other files as a single source of truth, complete with permissions, revision control, and check-in/check-out to protect document integrity. Studio Sessions, by contrast, act as a virtual meeting room for live markup and review on PDFs, allowing large teams to comment together, track every change, and communicate through built-in chat without creating extra versions. The video then shows how the two work best in tandem: keep your master files in a Project, launch a Session whenever a document needs collaborative review, and return the updated file to the Project so your records and version history stay clean and up to date.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the primary purpose of Studio Projects as long-term, cloud-based storage and version control for project documents
• Explain how Studio Sessions support real-time PDF markup, feedback, and tracked collaboration across your team
• Decide whether a given workflow belongs in a Project, a Session, or a combination of both