Pinnacle Systems Interplay - 2.2 Installation Manual

Avid® Interplay

Software Installation

and Configuration Guide

Version 2.2

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Arizona Images — KNTV Production — Courtesy of Granite Broadcasting, Inc., Editor/Producer Bryan Foote. Canyonlands — Courtesy of the National Park Service/Department of the Interior. Ice Island — Courtesy of Kurtis Productions, Ltd. Tornados + Belle Isle footage — Courtesy of KWTV News 9. WCAU Fire Story — Courtesy of NBC-10, Philadelphia, PA. Women in Sports – Paragliding — Courtesy of Legendary Entertainment, Inc.

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Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide • 0130-07635-04 Rev B • May 2009 • Created 5/26/10 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Interplay Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 1 Installation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the Interplay Installer DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Upgrading Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Installation Check Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Overall Interplay Installation Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Media Indexer Installation Checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Check List for Installing Components for Interplay Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Workspace Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Avid Unity MediaNetwork Setup and Configuration Documentation . . . . . . . . . 27

Avid Unity ISIS Setup and Configuration Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Network Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Time Synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers . . . . . . 30

Creating the Server Execution User Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Accounts for Copy Provider and Interplay Stream Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Accounts for Accessing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Manually Setting a Target Workspace For Voice-Over Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Accounts for Using Deletion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Accounts for Using AirSpeed Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Accounts for Using Interplay Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Service Framework Administrator Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Accounts for Avid Editing Applications, Assist, and Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Required Application Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Service Framework Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Software Installed on Interplay Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Software Installed on Interplay Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Software Installed on Interplay Media Services Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Different Types of Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Replacing 32-Bit Media Indexers with 64-Bit Media Indexers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Shutting Down a Media Indexer System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 2 Installing Software on Interplay Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Starting the Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Avid Unity MediaNetwork Compatibility with the Interplay Engine . . . . . . . . . . 50

Installing the Avid Interplay Engine Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Installing Avid Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Installing Avid Interplay Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Installing Software on the Interplay Transfer Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Installing Software on the Media Services and Media Services Provider Servers. . 63

Installing the Media Services Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Installing the Local Workflow Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Installing the WAN Workflow Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Installing Software on an Interplay Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Installing Software on an Avid Interplay Media Indexer Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Before Installing Media Indexer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using UNC Drive Mapping on Interplay ISIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Installing the Media Indexer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Turning Off Service Framework Services to Conserve System Memory . . . . . 68

Configuring a Media Indexer to Monitor Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Tips for Adding a Shared Storage Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Installing Software on the CaptureManager Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low Res Encoder Software . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Chapter 3 Installing Software on Interplay Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing Software on Interplay Assist or Avid Instinct Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Running Interplay Assist and Editing Applications on Same System. . . . . . . . . 78

Installing Software on an Interplay Access System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Macintosh Installer for Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Moving Editors Between Interplay Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Service Framework Workstation Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Configuring an Avid Editing System in the Service Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the

Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using the Processes Tab to Configure Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Configuring the Local Media Indexer to Index Local Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Panasonic DVCPRO P2 and Ikegami NLTEK Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Installing Software on a CaptureManager Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Video Satellite Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Establishing the First Connection Between Pro Tools|HD and Interplay . . . . . 105

Chapter 4 Installing Optional Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Performing a Custom Install of the Service Framework Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Verifying that the Service Framework Services Are Running. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Disabling Framework Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Installing Avid Interplay Access or Avid Interplay Media Services and

Transfer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Installing Interplay Media Services Client Updater for Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . 114

Browsing the Interplay Installer DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chapter 5 Installing and Configuring an Archive Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Installing the Archive Engine Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Installing the Interplay Access Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Installing the FlashNet Client Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Installing the Interplay Archive Provider Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Setting Up a Failover System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Updating the Archive Engine Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 6 Additional Configuration Topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using Antivirus Software in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Integration of Journal Data into the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Mounting Workspaces as Drives: Lettered versus Letterless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using Time Synchronization in an Avid Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Configuring the Time Sync Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Installing the Lookup Service on a Separate Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Configuring Lookup Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Configuring Lookup Servers on Avid Unity ISIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Configuring a Multicast Repeater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Understanding Multicast Repeaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Example of Configuring Multicast Repeaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Determining If You Need to Configure a Multicast Repeater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Checking Whether the System is Recognized by the

Service Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Determining if a System is on a Different Subnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Configuring a Multicast Repeater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Configuring Avid AirSpeed Multi Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Configuring Avid AirSpeed in Avid Interplay Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Interplay Adapter and AirSpeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Configuring Interplay Adapter, CaptureManager, and AirSpeed. . . . . . . . . . . 143

Updating Software on an AirSpeed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Appendix A SR2400 and SR2500 Slot Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

SR2400 and SR2500 Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

SR2400 Slot Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

SR2500 Slot Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter B Configuring the Copy Provider Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Copy Provider Slot Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Chelsio Adapter Board Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Chelsio Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

ISIS Connections and Client Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Making the ISIS Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Copy Provider ISIS Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Copy Provider and ISIS Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Installing the ISIS Client Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Client Manager Preference Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Configure Chelsio as the Default Network Connection on the Copy Provider . . . . 166

Creating Copy Provider User Accounts for ISIS and Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Chapter C Configuring the Move Provider Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Move Provider Slot Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Chelsio Adapter Board Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

ISIS Connections and Client Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Client Manager Preference Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Configure Chelsio as the Default Network Connection on the Move Provider . . . . 172

Creating Move Provider User Accounts for ISIS and Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Appendix D Installing and Configuring the Interplay Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Stream Server Slot Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Port Usage for the Interplay Stream Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Installing and Configuring the Stream Server Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Installing the Workflow Engine and Supported Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Uninstalling the Stream Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Delete Workflow and the Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Searching for Streamable Masterclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Removing a Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Moving and Renaming a Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Changing the Name of the Stream Server Execution User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Installing and Configuring Additional Stream Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Recreating the Network Share on the Stream Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Appendix E Avid Interplay Port Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Chapter Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of Avid®Interplay®, a powerful system for managing media in a shared storage environment. This guide contains overview installation instructions and configuration information for the Interplay components on the Avid Interplay Installer DVD.

This guide is intended for all Avid Interplay administrators who are responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining an Avid Interplay Engine or Avid Interplay Archive Engine (database, server, and all related client connections and user rights) in an Interplay workgroup.

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your

system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Date Revised Changes Made

05/26/2010 Updated for Interplay v2.2. Updated the following sections:

• “Port Usage for the Interplay Stream Server” on page 177

• Copy Provider: “ISIS Connections and Client Software Installation” on page 162

• “Avid Unity MediaNetwork Compatibility with the Interplay Engine” on page 50

• Mac installers on a separate DVD:“Installing Software on an Interplay Access

System” on page 79 and “Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems (Macintosh)” on page 97

• CaptureManager Vista Client installer: “Installing Software on a CaptureManager

Client” on page 103

Moved the Maintenance chapter to the Interplay Best Practices Guide.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), or (Macintosh only)

Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid product:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes, they are shipped with your application and are also available online.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document (README_Interplay.pdf) and is also available online.

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit

the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/readme.

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.

Interplay Documentation

The following documents describe how to use Avid Interplay:

Interplay Documentation

• Avid Interplay Best Practices — provides an overview of the major Interplay components, shows sample configuration diagrams, and describes several of the key features, such as setting up a user database and using the Avid Interplay Archive Engine.

• Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide — describes how to use the Avid Interplay Installer DVD to install and configure software on the various systems that make up a Interplay environment.

• Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide — describes how to set up a cluster configuration for the Avid Interplay Engine and the Avid Interplay Archive engine.

• Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide — describes how to administer your Avid Interplay Engine or Avid Interplay Archive Engine and Avid Interplay database.

• Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Access to browse, search, and work with assets in the Avid Interplay database.

• Avid Interplay Assist User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Assist for logging, archiving, and sending to Playback material in an Interplay environment.

• Avid Service Framework User’s Guide — describes how to use the logging, monitoring, and management features of the Avid Service Framework applications.

• Avid CaptureManager User’s Guide — describes how to use CaptureManager™ in a newsroom environment to coordinate video feeds, schedule feed captures at both high and low resolutions, and record late breaking events instantly.

• Avid CaptureManager Installation and Configuration Guide — describes how to set up and configure CaptureManager.

• Avid Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration — describes how to set up and configure an Avid Low Res Encode system. Includes information on updating the bootset, root disk image, and configuring a Low Res Encode system to work with CaptureManager.

• Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Transfer to transfer media to and from another workgroup, send finished sequences to a configured playback device, ingest media from a configured ingest device, and perform standalone transfers between workstations.

• Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide — Avid Interplay Media Services lets you control and automate Transcode, Archive, and ProEncode services.

• Avid iNEWS Instinct User’s Guide — describes how to use the Avid iNEWS Instinct application to write iNEWS stories and put together simple audio and video sequences.

All documents are available in PDF form on the Avid Knowledge Base at

www.avid.com/onlinesupport.

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal

You can quickly access the Interplay Help, PDF versions of the Interplay guides, and useful external links by viewing the Interplay User Information Center on the Interplay Portal. The Interplay Portal is a web site that runs on the Interplay Engine.

You can access the Interplay User Information Center through a browser from any system in the Interplay environment. You can also access it through the Help menu in Interplay Access and the Interplay Administrator.

The Interplay Help combines information from all Interplay guides in one Help system. It includes a combined index and a full-featured search. From the Interplay Portal, you can run the Help in a browser or download a compiled (.chm) version for use on other systems, such as a laptop.

To open the Interplay User Information Center through a browser:

1. Type the following line in a web browser:

http://Interplay_Engine_name

For Interplay_Engine_name substitute the name of the computer running the Interplay Engine software. For example, the following line opens the portal web page on a system named docwg:

http://docwg

2. Click the “Avid Interplay Documentation” link to access the User Information Center web page.

To open the Interplay User Information Center from Interplay Access or the Interplay Administrator:

t Select Help > Documentation Website on Server.

Avid Training Services

Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit www.avid.com/support and follow the Training links, or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).

Avid Training Services

1 Installation Overview

This document describes how to use the Avid Interplay Installer DVD to install the various Interplay components. This includes the order in which to install items and any special considerations when you are combining services and applications on the same system.

See the installation check list for a list of the various steps required to install the Interplay products.

This chapter describes the following topics:

• Using the Interplay Installer DVD

• Upgrading Your System

• Installation Check Lists

• Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System

• Network Considerations

• User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

• Required Application Keys

• Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

Using the Interplay Installer DVD

You use the Interplay Installer DVD to install Interplay software components on the various servers and clients. This document describes how to use the Interplay Installer DVD and also points to appropriate documents for additional configuration information.

For Avid editing applications such as Media Composer, use the individual installer DVDs for the various Avid editing applications and then use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the software required to make the Avid editing application a client of the Interplay environment.

The application software for Avid Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct® is on the Avid Interplay

Installer DVD.

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Additional Installers on the Interplay Installer DVD

The following installers are also on the DVD although not accessible through the Installer user interface. You can also browse the DVD and select individual installers.

• Avid Low Res Encode software: see “Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low

Res Encoder Software” on page 75.

• Avid Service Framework Workstation Service. See “Service Framework Workstation

Service” on page 83.

• The installer for Mac Interplay Installer DVD, in the Mac_Installers folder.

For more information, see “Macintosh Installer for Interplay Access” on page 79 and

“Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems (Macintosh)” on page 97.

OS® X applications is located on the root level of the Avid

Upgrading Your System

Before you begin, see the Avid Interplay ReadMe for specific instructions on upgrading for a particular release.

The following items apply to upgrading the components on your Interplay system:

• Back up your Interplay database and any other user data before you upgrade. For information on backing up your database, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive Engine Administration Guide.

• Use the Interplay Installer DVD software to uninstall the previous versions of software components. You do not have to use the Control Panel to uninstall unless specifically instructed to do so in the Interplay Readme.

• Do not uninstall the Avid Interplay Engine or Interplay Archive Engine software unless instructed by Avid support. Uninstalling the software could require additional steps to reactivate your database. When upgrading, the installation software takes care of removing the previous version of the software.

Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems

Do not install or update Intel NIC drivers on cluster systems after the cluster setup is complete. Due to the technical aspects of changing resources and devices on a cluster, this can lead to problems with the cluster software and possible data loss.

The Intel drivers on cluster systems do not require updating for this release. Doing so could compromise the integrity of the cluster. In general, do not update the hardware drivers on a cluster system unless instructed to do so by the Interplay Readme or Customer Support.

Installation Check Lists

This section contains the following checklists:

• Overall Interplay Installation Checklist

• Media Indexer Installation Checklist

• Check List for Installing Components for Interplay Streaming

Overall Interplay Installation Checklist

The following checklist provides an overall view of an Interplay installation.

Check List for Installing Interplay Components

Task Section Reference

Installation Check Lists



Determine your Media Indexer server configuration. See the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide and

“Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers” on page 44.

Determine where the Avid Lookup Service will run. The Lookup service is part of the Service Framework.

If you use AirSpeed® systems to capture media, determine where you will install the Interplay Adapter.

If you are using Media Services providers such as Interplay Transcode or an Interplay Archive Engine, determine where your Interplay Media Services server will reside and where your Transcode, ProEncode™, and Archive providers will reside

One Transcode and one ProEncode provider can reside on the same system as the Interplay Media Services but an Archive Provider might require its own server.

Check your network environment.See “Network Considerations” on page 28.

See “Service Framework Components” on

page 37. Also see “Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems” on page 36, “Installing the Lookup Service on a Separate Server” on page 129, and “Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup Service” on page 131.

See “Interplay Adapter and AirSpeed” on page

142.

See the Avid Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

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Check List for Installing Interplay Components

Task Section Reference



Set up the Intel servers that will be used in your Interplay environment.

If you will be setting up a cluster (failover) configuration of the Avid Interplay Engine or Avid Interplay Archive Engine, set up the cluster system.

Set up and configure your Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISIS™ system.

Create a Server Execution User account for the Interplay Engine.

On the Interplay Engine server, use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the Interplay Engine and related software.

Make sure that you obtain and load the

Interplay Engine license key promptly. The license key must match the dongle for the Interplay Engine server. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid

Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

See the following:

• “SR2400 and SR2500 Slot Locations” on

page 149

• “Configuring the Copy Provider Server” on

page 157

• “Installing and Configuring the Interplay

Stream Server” on page 175

• “Avid Interplay Port Usage” on page 193

See the Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide.

See “Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity

System” on page 26, “User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers” on page 30 and “Avid Unity ISIS Recommended Maintenance” on page

257.

See “Creating the Server Execution User

Account” on page 30.

See “Installing Software on the Interplay

Engine Server” on page 49.



Install and configure your Media Indexers that will monitor shared storage.

At this point you can install and configure the following applications in any order:

Review the software components that should be installed on each Interplay client.

See “Media Indexer Installation Checklist” on

page 24.

See “Software Installed on Interplay Clients”

on page 39.

Check List for Installing Interplay Components

Task Section Reference

Installation Check Lists

• Install the Interplay software components for the

Avid editing applications.

See “Installing Software on Avid Editing

Systems (Windows)” on page 81. See “Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage” on page 86.

• Install the Interplay software components and

application software for Avid Instinct

and Av id

See “Installing Software on an Interplay

Access System” on page 79.

Interplay Assist.

• Install and configure Interplay Transfer.See “Installing Software on the Interplay

Transfer Server” on page 62.

• If your site is using the Media Services Copy

provider, install and configure the Copy Provider

See “Configuring the Copy Provider Server”

on page 157,.

server.

• If your site is using the Interplay Stream server,

install and configure the Stream Server and

related software.

See “Installing and Configuring the Interplay

Stream Server” on page 175 and “Check List for Installing Components for Interplay Streaming” on page 25.

• Install and configure Avid Interplay Media Services.

See “Installing Software on the Media Services

and Media Services Provider Servers” on page

63.

• Install and configure CaptureManager™. Also set up and configure any Avid Low Res

Encode systems.

See “Installing Software on the

CaptureManager Server” on page 74 and the

Avid CaptureManager Installation and Configuration Guide.

See “Installing and Configuring Avid

Interplay Low Res Encoder Software” on page

75.



• Install and configure Archive Engine. This is similar to installing and configuring an Interplay

See “Installing and Configuring an Archive

Engine” on page 117.

Engine as described earlier in this section.

Review the ISIS and Interplay maintenance procedures.

See “Interplay Maintenance

Recommendations” on page 251.

Create the Interplay database. See “Creating an Interplay Database” in the

Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

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Check List for Installing Interplay Components

Task Section Reference



Create Interplay users and folder structures to match your project workflow and define a delete strategy.

See “Setting up a Folder Structure and a User Database” and “Developing a Delete Strategy” in the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide.

Media Indexer Installation Checklist

The following checklist provides the main installation and configurations steps for Media Indexers in an Interplay Environment.

Check List for Installing Interplay Components

Task Section Reference



Determine your Media Indexer server configuration. Then perform the following procedures on the Media Indexers that will monitor shared storage.

If you are upgrading 32-bit Media Indexers to 64-bit versions, see the upgrade procedure in the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide.

Use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the appropriate Service Framework software. Do not install all components on a Media Indexer server.

When you install the Service Framework

software, you must name your workgroup. The name is case sensitive and should not contain spaces. You can either choose a useful name or use the default, AvidWorkgroup. The only time you are required to supply a unique name is when you have more than one Interplay workgroup on the same network. For example, this could happen at a large customer site.

See “Configuring Avid Interplay Media Indexers” in the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide.

See “Replacing 32-bit Media Indexers in the HAG with 64-bit Media Indexers” in the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide.

See “Software Installed on Media Indexer

Servers” on page 44.



Verify that the Service Framework is running. See “Verifying that the Service Framework

Services Are Running” on page 111.

Install the Media Indexer software. See “Installing Software on an Avid Interplay

Media Indexer Server” on page 67.

Check List for Installing Interplay Components

Task Section Reference

Installation Check Lists



Before you configure the Media Indexer software, make sure there is an Avid MediaFiles directory on each workspace that the Media Indexer will monitor. You can use an Avid editing system to capture or import media to the workspace. You can also create the directory manually but, if you do, carefully check the spelling and case of the text in the folder name.

Configure the Media Indexer in the High Availability Group to monitor your shared storage. You must use UNC paths to identify the shared storage folders.

See “Configuring a Media Indexer to Monitor

Shared Storage” on page 68.

If you are configuring Media Indexer delegates or 64-bit Media Indexers, see the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide.

Check List for Installing Components for Interplay Streaming

For streaming play in Interplay Access v2.0, the following table provides a check list of steps for installing and configuring the various Interplay components. The check list provides references on where to find more information about each step.

Check List for Installing Components for Interplay Streaming

Task Section Reference



Install the Interplay Engine. See “Installing Software on the Interplay

Engine Server” on page 49.

Install Interplay Access on one or more clients.

You do not need to install Interplay Framework

with Interplay Access.

Install the Avid Unity client software on the Interplay Stream server.

Install Interplay Framework where needed. Use the Service Framework installer from one

Use the Access installer from the editing clients install page or from “Installing

Software on an Interplay Access System” on page 79.

See “Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity

System” on page 26.

of the client installer pages. For example, from this page “Installing Software on Avid Editing

Systems (Windows)” on page 81

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Check List for Installing Components for Interplay Streaming

Task Section Reference



Install the Interplay Stream Server software. You need to install Interplay Access and Interplay Framework on the system you use as the stream server. Interplay Framework is required for the Interplay Auto-Publish Service and Workflow Engine, which you install on the same system as the Interplay Stream Server.

Install the Interplay Media Services Engine software and the Transcode service.

Install the Interplay Stream Publish service on the Stream Publish service provider.

Install the Interplay Workflow Engine and Auto-Publish service on the system where you installed the streaming server.

Install the Interplay Delivery service and the Interplay Delivery Receiver service.

See “Installing and Configuring the Interplay

Stream Server” on page 175.

See “Installing Software on the Media Services

and Media Services Provider Servers” on page

63.

See “Installing the WAN Workflow

Components” on page 65. Then see “Working

with the Stream Publish Service” in the Avid

Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

See “Installing the Workflow Engine and

Supported Software” on page 182. Then see

“Automatically Publishing QuickTime Reference Movies” in the Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

See “Installing the WAN Workflow

Components” on page 65 and “Working with the Delivery Service” on page 273. Then see

“Working with the Avid Interplay Delivery Service” in the Avid Interplay Media Services

Setup and User’s Guide

Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System

Before you install Interplay software, install and configure your Avid Unity system for shared storage. See the Interplay ReadMe for the supported versions of Avid Unity ISIS and Avid Unity MediaNetwork.

Depending on whether you have Avid Unity MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISIS, install the Connection Manager (MediaNetwork) or Client Manager (ISIS) on the client systems.

Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System

Workspace Names

Use the following guidelines when creating workspace names in an Interplay environment:

• Do not use special characters or spaces in your workspace names. Workspace names should only contain ASCII characters.

• Keep workspace name length as short as is reasonable to allow recognition of the workspace. Longer workspace names add to the path length and can affect performance in a large Interplay environment.

Avid Unity MediaNetwork Setup and Configuration Documentation

The main setup guide for Avid Unity MediaNetwork is the Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide. Depending on your configuration you might also need one of the

following manuals.

For Avid Unity MediaNetwork v4.x:

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork PortServer Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork LANServer EX Setup Guide

For Avid Unity MediaNetwork v5.x:

• Avid Unity Media Engine and Avid MEDIArray XT v5.0 ReadMe

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Administration Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Client Guide

• Avid Unity Media Engine and Avid MEDIArray XT Setup Guide

• Avid Unity Media Engine and Avid MEDIArray XT Site Preparation Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Performance Guide

Avid Unity ISIS Setup and Configuration Documentation

See the following ISIS documentation:

• Avid Unity ISIS System Setup Guide

• Avid Unity ISIS Administration Guide

• Avid Unity ISIS ReadMe

The Avid Unity ISIS System Setup Guide contains a section on upgrading ISIS software. For

additional information, see “Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems” on page 20.

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Network Considerations

This section contains topics related to setting up your Interplay network environment.

Computer Names

A hostname must comply with RFC 952 standards. For example, you cannot use an underscore in a hostname. For more information, see “Naming Conventions in Active Directory for Computers, Domains, Sites, and OUs” on the Microsoft Base. See also “Workspace Names” on page 27.

Verify Entries on the DNS Server

Service Framework can become sluggish and unstable if there are incorrect entries in the DNS server for any of the computers in the Interplay environment. Symptoms include excessive CPU usage by the Service Framework Lookup service and Interplay Diagnostics. The tree view in the Interplay Service Configuration or Health Monitor might also fail to populate if there are incorrect DNS entries.

Make sure that you correct any errors in DNS entries for name to IP resolution.

Configure the DNS Server to Support Reverse Lookup

Support Knowledge

If DNS is not configured for Reverse Lookup, Service Framework can not resolve IP addresses to host names. Symptoms include tree views failing to populate in the Interplay Service Configuration, Interplay Diagnostics, and Health Monitor.

Make sure the DNS server is configured to support Reverse Lookups.

Non-DNS Environments

In an non-DNS environment, you must configure a host file on all systems, including Avid Low Res Encode systems. This is necessary so the Service Framework can list the systems in its client applications, such as the Interplay Service Configuration or Health Monitor.

Computers with Multiple Network Interfaces

Computers that have multiple network interfaces in use must be entered in DNS so that all IP addresses have the exact same hostname.

If you have multiple network interfaces on a computer and one is not used, use the Device Manager to disable the interface. If not, the computer might have problems communicating with the rest of the Interplay workgroup.

Configuring an Avid Unity ISIS System

Network Considerations

On an Avid Unity ISIS system, if your network extends outside of ISIS Zone 1, you must configure a router to communicate between the two VLAN

Know Where Your Subnets Are on the Network

Create a system diagram that identifies the subnets on your Avid Interplay environment. You have the following choices for allowing Interplay clients to communicate across subnets:

• Use Unicast Discovery. See “Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup Service” on

page 131.

• Install and configure the Multicast Repeater software on each subnet. See “Configuring

a Multicast Repeater” on page 132.

Diagnosing Service Framework Problems

Use the System Check tab of the Avid Workgroup Properties tool to detect and diagnose problems in your Interplay environment.

Time Synchronization

If you already have a system in place to maintain Time Sync on your network, you can continue to use that system, or you can use the Service Framework Time Synchronization service to perform the same task.

The Avid Time Synchronization Service enables time synchronization between different machines in a workgroup. The Time Synchronization Service can operate in either Master mode or Slave mode. In Master mode, the service retrieves a reference time from a configured time source and redistributes it to the Slave services within the workgroup. The time source can be the local PC clock, an NTP server, or an Adrienne™ timecode card installed in a server, such as the CaptureManager server. In Slave mode, the Time Synchronization Service listens for time notifications from the workgroup and (optionally) sets the local PC clock to match.

systems.

It is important to use only one time synchronism mechanism to set the local PC clocks in the Interplay environment. If a Time Synchronization Slave service is configured to set the local

PC clock and it detects that some other mechanism (such as Windows

32 Time Services) changes the local clock, then the Time Sync Slave service disables itself to avoid the local clock from jumping back and forth. The Time Sync slave also posts a Warning in the Health Monitor.

For more information on Time Sync, see “Using Time Synchronization in an Avid Interplay

Environment” on page 125 and the Service Framework ReadMe at the top level of the

Interplay Installer DVD or on the Knowledge Base.

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Using AirSpeed and Low Res Encode

When using Avid AirSpeed and Avid Low Res Encode to perform a dual ingest, it is important that you lock your video signal to your timecode source. For example, you can connect a video feed and a Time of Day timecode device into a sync device to lock the incoming video and audio with timecode.

It is also important that the two capture devices are in sync. If the captured high-res video and low-res video are off by a few frames, you should delay the video signal going to one of the capture devices in order to ensure that the two video signals match. For more information, see Avid Interplay Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration. This document is on the Avid Interplay installer DVD.

See “Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low Res Encoder Software” on page 75.

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

Some Avid products require user accounts on the Avid Unity system. The user names and passwords on the Avid Unity system must match the user names and passwords on the product server. If you are using a PortServer for Avid Unity MediaNetwork, these user accounts must also have the same accounts and passwords on the PortServer system.

Passwords are case sensitive; the passwords must match exactly.

Creating the Server Execution User Account

The Server Execution User is a Windows operating system user account that is used only to run the Interplay Engine processes. You need to specify the user name and password of the Server Execution User account the first time that you install the Interplay Engine software. This account must fill the following requirements:

• The account must have local administration rights on the operating system for the Interplay Engine Server (both nodes on a cluster system). The Interplay Engine installation software asks you for a user name and password and automatically creates the account in the Administrator group. In a domain environment, you can use an existing domain account.

The account must have the following local security policy settings:

- Act as part of the operating system

- Back up files and directories

- Restore files and directories

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