What are Media Mixes

Goal: understand what a Media Mix is, how it differs from a gallery or video collection, and how to turn the feature on for your company and your clients.

What a Media Mix is

A Media Mix is a single curated, shareable page that mixes photos and videos a client already has — pulled from their existing galleries and video collections — into one hand-ordered sequence. Instead of sending a client a photo gallery link and a separate video collection link, a Media Mix lets you build one page — a wedding highlight reel with the ceremony film sitting right in the mix among the stills, or a portfolio piece interleaving motion and stills — and share it as a single public link.

A Media Mix holds no photos or videos of its own. It points at items already uploaded to one of the client's galleries or collections — nothing is copied, moved, or duplicated, and it uses no extra storage. Editing, re-watermarking, or deleting the original photo or video is reflected in every Media Mix it appears in.

Visitors see one page, rendered the same way a photo gallery looks — a mosaic grid — with videos playing inline in the same lightbox as the photos, in whatever order you arranged them.

Off by default

Media Mixes is a feature you switch on, not something that appears automatically. Until you enable it, there's no Media Mixes link anywhere and nothing about your account changes.

The three switches

Enable Media Mixes (Settings → Features) — turns the feature on for your company. This adds a Media Mixes link to your admin sidebar and a Media Mixes stat card to your dashboard.
My Media Mixes (Settings → Client Portal) — additionally adds a Media Mixes section to the client portal, and lets clients build their own. On by default once Media Mixes itself is enabled.
Media Mixes (Settings → Dashboard) — shows or hides the "Recent Media Mixes" row on your dashboard. Visibility only; it doesn't affect the client portal.

See Company settings for a walkthrough of the rest of that page.

Who can build one

Media Mixes are the first delivery item your clients can create for themselves, not just view. With My Media Mixes on, a client can open their own picker of that client's galleries and collections, assemble a Media Mix, and publish it — no need to ask your studio to do it for them. Your studio can also build one for a client from the admin side at any time; both use the same curation screen. See Build, curate & share a Media Mix.

What enabling adds

Your sidebar — a Media Mixes link that opens a list of every Media Mix across all your clients.
Your dashboard — a Media Mixes stat card and a Recent Media Mixes row.
The client portal (when My Media Mixes is also on) — a My Media Mixes section in the client's sidebar and dashboard, and an add/curate screen of their own.

What a Media Mix isn't

A few things are deliberately out of scope for now:

No proofing or comments. Guest hearts/selections on photos and guest comments on videos — both available on galleries and video collections directly — aren't part of a Media Mix.
No Media Mix-level watermark. Each photo or video keeps whatever watermark its source gallery or collection already applies.
Not a place to upload new media. A Media Mix only pulls from photos and videos that already exist in a gallery or collection — see Upload photos and Upload videos to add new ones first.