Downloads
How you retrieve deliverable files, track large transfers, and review your download history.
How you retrieve deliverable files, track large transfers, and review your download history.
Downloads is where you retrieve the deliverable files for an asset and keep track of everything you’ve pulled down.
You can download an asset’s files directly from the asset or from a share. Large files transfer through Aspera, which handles big media reliably; these show up as Active Transfers with progress, speed, and pause, resume, and cancel controls. No Aspera software? Downloads automatically fall back to your browser over HTTPS — see Direct Download (HTTPS).
A download gives you the full-resolution deliverable file — not the in-app preview. Previews are for reviewing inside Pixwel; downloads are the real assets for distribution.
Downloading is permission-controlled. Whether you can download at all comes from the download permission on your group, and what you can download can be narrowed by:
Every download is recorded — the file, asset, project, and when you got it. The Downloads page lists your history, which you can filter by asset name and page through. This same record feeds the downloads report, so administrators can see who retrieved what and when.