Projects

The backbone of Pixwel — how a project contains assets, and how assets contain the files that get localized and delivered.

Almost everything in Pixwel hangs off a three-level hierarchy: a project contains assets, and an asset contains files. Understanding this relationship makes the rest of the platform easier to follow.

Assets

The individual pieces of creative within a project.

Files

The real, downloadable deliverables of an asset.

Scripts

The source-language text that localization is built from.

Project

A project represents one campaign — typically a single film — and is owned by a studio. It’s the container everything else lives in.

A project holds:

• Many assets (the trailers, TV spots, posters, and other media for the campaign)
• A logo file (the project’s poster or key art)
• Occasionally, loose files attached directly to the project rather than to an asset

How they relate

Relationship	Cardinality	Meaning
Studio → Project	one to many	A studio owns many projects
Project → Asset	one to many	A project contains many assets
Asset → File	one to many	An asset has many file renditions
Project → File	one to many	Files can also attach directly to a project
Asset → Preview	one to many	An asset has previews per language/revision
Asset → Translation	one to many	An asset has an OV plus localized translations

The shape to remember: one project, many assets; one asset, many files — and each file is a specific localized or encoded version of its asset.

This page describes the concepts.