"Projects, Clients, Events..."

As you know there are important differences between PJ Remix and the old software, Retro. We posted on this last year, but we have a lot more users now, so here's an updated introduction to one of Remix's basic concepts (for more info check out the web link below).

In Retro each job was in a separate PJF file and (as our support team can tell you) some of those files got very lost, or people ended up with multiple versions etc. Remix, on the other hand, keeps all of your work in a single database which the software can keep track of.

Remix uses certain words in a very specific way to describe that data. We work on Projects, which consist of four linked components: Clients, Events, Products and Exports:

We shoot an Event (eg a wedding) for our Clients (eg the bride and groom), who buy Products (eg albums).

Why do we use words like Event and Product instead of “wedding” and “album”? Because they’re more generic. Not all Events are weddings, and not all Products are albums.

Before you can create a new Product (let’s say an album) you need to take a few seconds to link it to both a Client and an Event. That way you'll be able to find it in the PJ database. You can view the database using the Project Browser (accessible from the Start window or the File menu). To illustrate, the following screen shot shows my copy of Remix after the FOCUS show in Birmingham UK recently – click on it to see it full size.



I have one of my Clients selected ("Focus Demo"), which is associated with a single event (Henry and Grace), which in turn has dozens of demo albums linked to it. There could be slide show "products" too, but as it happens there aren't any.

Your Products in turn have Exports or "Outputs". For example, the Outputs from an album design are the orders and image files that you export and either:

• Save to your hard disk, or
• Send to your album vendor and lab for manufacture.

After they have been created, these will appear in the right-hand "Outputs" column of the Project Browser.

Click here for an overview of Remix, including all the main windows and wizards, as well as the Project Browser.

HTH, Ian