Ceyu

Images, video, PDF & 3D

Most whiteboards treat anything that is not an image as an attachment. On a Ceyu board, video, PDFs and 3D models are ordinary objects you can place, scale, annotate and comment on.

Supported formats

Supported media formats in Ceyu
Format Extensions On the board Works offline
Images .png .jpg .webp .gif .svg Placed at full resolution, scaled on the canvas Yes
Video .mp4 .webm Plays in place, frame-by-frame with Yes
Documents .pdf Page-through viewer, every page addressable Yes
3D .glb .gltf Orbit, zoom, reset — no external viewer Yes
Embeds YouTube, Vimeo, Figma, Miro links Live frame on the board No — needs the network
KindFormatsPlan
ImagesJPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, SVGAll, including Basic
VideoMP4, WEBMPlus and above
DocumentsPDF, multi-pagePlus and above
3D modelsGLB, GLTF, with texturesPlus and above

The Basic plan is limited to standard image formats. Everything else needs Plus or higher.

Images

Images are streamed at the resolution the current zoom level needs rather than decoded at full size, which is why a board of 4K textures does not exhaust memory the moment you open it. Crop and scale are non-destructive: the original file is untouched.

Video

MP4 and WEBM play in place on the board. Hovering reveals the transport, and the playhead can be dragged for scrubbing.

For animation review the useful part is stepping: the and keys move exactly one frame at a time, which is what you need to look at an arc or the anticipation before a hit. No external player, no round trip.

Not yet

A-B looping over a section and onion skinning across adjacent frames are planned, not built. If you need them today, keep your dedicated review tool for that step.

PDFs

Drop a multi-page PDF — an artbook, a brief, a technical manual — and page through it on the canvas. Useful for keeping a client brief physically next to the work that answers it, rather than in a tab nobody opens.

3D models

GLB and GLTF models load with their textures and can be orbited in place: drag to rotate, scroll to zoom the model's own camera. It is a viewer for checking silhouette, proportion and how a piece reads from another angle — not a DCC package, and not trying to be one.

The practical value is not having Blender or Maya open purely to look at a reference model while working on something else.

Embeds

YouTube, Vimeo, Loom and Sketchfab have first-class embeds, plus a generic web embed. An embed is a live object on the board rather than a screenshot of one, so a Loom walkthrough can sit inside the frame it is about.

Getting media onto the board

On the desktop applications a clipboard watcher can add anything you copy straight to the active board, which is worth switching on during a reference hunt and off afterwards.

Common questions about media

How large can a file on a Ceyu board be?

There is no fixed cap in the app. What limits you is the disk the board lives on and, if you sync, the storage in your plan — a board is a folder of files, not a database row. Very large videos run smoother if you place a proxy and keep the master beside it.

Does Ceyu re-encode or compress my file?

No. The file you place is the file that is stored. Ceyu writes a small preview for the canvas and leaves the original untouched, which is why an exported board can be handed to a client without a second thought.

Do videos and PDFs work without an internet connection?

Yes. Images, video, PDFs and 3D models are local files and play offline. Only embeds — a YouTube or Figma frame — need the network, because that content lives on someone else's server.

Can I scrub video frame by frame in Ceyu?

Yes. Hovering a video reveals the transport, and the left and right arrow keys move exactly one frame at a time, which is what you need to judge an arc or the anticipation before a hit.