Pinnacle Systems Interplay - 2.7 Best Practices Guide
Avid® Interplay
Best Practices Guide
Version 2.7
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Contents
Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Interplay Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 1 Avid Interplay Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Avid Interplay Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Avid Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Avid Interplay Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Avid Interplay Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Avid Instinct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Avid Interplay Media Services Providers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Avid Interplay Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
iNews and Avid Instinct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Archive and Restore Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
MediaManager Archive Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
MediaManager to Avid Interplay Migration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Avid Interplay Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Avid Interplay Low Res Encode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Service Framework Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
CaptureManager and Interplay Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Access Control and Media Deletion Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Interplay Application Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Chapter 2 Sample Configuration Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Small Broadcast, MediaNetwork v4.x, 10-25 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Medium Broadcast, Avid Unity MediaNetwork v5.x, 20 Ethernet Clients,
26 Fibre Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Medium Post, Avid Unity MediaNetwork v4.x,
10-25 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Medium Post, Avid Unity MediaNetwork v5.x, 20 Ethernet Clients, 26 Fibre Clients . . . 41
Large Post, MediaNetwork v4.x, 25-60 Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Medium Broadcast, Avid ISIS, 10-25 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Medium Post, Avid ISIS, 10-25 Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Large Broadcast, Avid ISIS, > 60 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 3 Setting Up a Folder Structure and a User Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Permissions and Folder Structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Assigning Access Rights to User Groups on a Folder Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Assigning Database Access on a Project Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Managing Database Roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Defining the Editor Database Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Managing the Instinct/Assist User Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Creating Folders for Capturing Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 4 Developing an Interplay Delete Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Introduction to Interplay Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Interplay Database Folder Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Folders Used by AirSpeed and CaptureManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Folders Used by Interplay Transfer Checkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Folders Used by Send to Playback Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Project and Bin Folders Created by the Avid Editing Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Creating Avid Editing Projects in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Creating Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Interplay Settings in the Editing Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Defining the Interplay Folder Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Defining the Media Creation Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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Project Workflow Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Broadcast Project Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Post Environment Project Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Using Project Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Example: Deletion for Day-of-the-Week Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Sample Delete Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Project Folders – Editor Projects (Daily) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Projects Folder – Ingest or AirSpeed Folders (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Incoming Media (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Sent to Playback (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Avid Instinct Assets (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Orphan Clips (Weekly). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Un-Checked In Avid Assets (Weekly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Deleted Items (Weekly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Avid Editing Application Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Example: Orphan Clips Deletion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Deletion Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Determining How Much Space a Delete Operation Will Free Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Searching for Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Saved Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Improving Search Response Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Examples: Using Search with Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Example: Searching for Unused Rendered Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 5 Determining Interplay Database Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Definition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Total Used Database Pages and Estimated Database Page Limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Interplay Engine Database Page Limits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Comparing Database Page Count and Cache Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Database Activity Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Tips for Improving Database Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Establish a Stable Ratio Between Database Objects and Database Pages. . . . . . . . . 114
Calculating the Ratio Between Pages and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Example: Using the Ratio to Plan for Database Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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Chapter 6 Refining Your Search in Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Using the Search Root and Attributes to Speed Up Interplay Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Basic Interplay Search Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Searching in Assist, Instinct, and the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Searching in Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Example: Finding Assets By Using a Unique Identifier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 7 Sony XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX End-to-End Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
MPEG-2 Long GOP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Long GOP Benefits and Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Supported File Formats for XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Long GOP Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Capture Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Editing Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Output Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Workflow for Background Processing of Long GOP Splicing and
Transferring of Long GOP OP1a Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 8 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Overview of the 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Editor MultiRez Workflow for 720p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Working with a MultiRez Clip in the Editor and Performing a Partial Restore . . . . 145
720p MultiRez Workflow Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Capturing High Res 720p Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Transcoding to 720p Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Archiving the High Res 720p Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Deleting the High Res Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Searching for and Restoring High Res Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Restoring a Full Clip from the Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Performing a Partial Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Setting Up the Media Services Profiles for a 720p MultiRez Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Creating Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Media Service Profile Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 9 H.264 End-to-End MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
H.264 Resolutions Supported by Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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Installation and Configuration for an H.264 Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
H.264 Workflow Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
H.264 Card for AirSpeed Multi Stream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Folders and Shared-Storage Workspaces for an H.264 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Media Services Profiles for an H.264 Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Configuring Interplay Clients for an H.264 MultiRez Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Acquiring Media for an H.264 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Dual-Ingest for High-Res Media and H.264 Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Transcoding to Create H.264 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Editing with H.264 and High-Res . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Archiving, Restoring, and Deleting H.264 and High-Res Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Chapter 10 HD 23.976p and HD 24p Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Interplay Support for Native HD 23.976p and HD 24p Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Interplay Support for HD 23.976p and HD 24p Proxy Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chapter 11 Apple ProRes Resolutions Supported in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Chapter 12 JPEG 2000 Resolutions Supported in Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Chapter 13 Support for Stereoscopic 3D Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Overview of Stereoscopic Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Stereoscopic Media and Stereoscopic Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Stereoscopic 3D Support in the Interplay Window, Interplay Assist, and
Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Properties for Stereoscopic Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Chapter 14 DNxHD 100 Resolutions Supported in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Chapter 15 Using Pro Tools and Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
System Requirements and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
System Requirements and Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Pro Tools Interplay Integration Version Auto-Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
New Interplay Support Features in Pro Tools 10.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Video Satellite Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Setting Up Interplay for Pro Tools Check In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Checking the License Key for Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
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Software Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Using the Pro Tools Interplay Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Chapter 16 Using Frame Chase Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Frame Chase Editing and Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Understanding Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Workflow for Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Limitations When Working With In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Chapter 17 Additional Interplay Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Changing Source Information for a Clip in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Ingest and Playout of Ancillary Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Support for AFD Ancillary Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Dynamic Relink: Working with a Single Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Restricting Clips to a Single Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Turning Off Dynamic Relink for Avid Assist and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Disconnecting an Avid Editing Application from the Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . 232
Chapter 18 Configuring Avid Interplay Media Indexers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Media Indexer Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Configuring Media Indexers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Resolving Memory Threshold Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Using 64-Bit Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
The 64-Bit Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Replacing 32-Bit Media Indexers in the HAG with 64-bit Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . 239
Import and Export Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Media Indexer Restart Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Ignoring Global Delete Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Scheduling Large File Deletions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Changing the Media Indexer Full Resync Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Improved Logging Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Media Indexer Health Monitor Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Media Indexing Workers Thread Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Storage Activity, Storage Resync Status, and Storage Root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Media Table Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Media Table Operations and Media Table Queries Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
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Checking Media Indexer Memory Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Suppressing Alerts in the Health Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Changing the Resync Interval for a Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Improving Media Indexer Performance by Limiting the File Count in
Media File Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Limiting the Number of Files Captured by the Editor or by Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Multiple ISIS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Web-Based User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Configuration Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Statistics Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Storage Browser and Storage Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Troubleshooting Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Media Indexer Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
MI Logging Capability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
MI Logging Capability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Media Indexer, Interplay Assist, and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Checking Media Indexer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
If The Media Indexer Service Does Not Appear on the Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Shutting Down the Media Indexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Rebuilding the Media Indexer Cache on a Small Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Media Indexer System Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Appendix A Interplay Maintenance Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Interplay Daily Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Interplay Weekly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Interplay Monthly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Avid ISIS Recommended Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Complete Server Room Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Appendix B Archive Migration (Workgroup 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Searching for Migrated Workgroup 4 Archive Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Restoring Migrated Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Restoring Different Versions of a MediaManager Archive Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Locating the Correct Version to Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Setting the Correct Version Information for the Clip in Interplay Access . . . . . . . . 294
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Restoring the Clip from the MediaManager Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Working with OMF Media Files After an Archive Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Deleting the Online OMF Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Retained Workgroup 4 Clip Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
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Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of A vid®Interplay®, a powerful system for managing media in
a shared storage environment. This guide contains an overview of Avid Interplay and also
contains task-oriented instructions, conceptual information, and reference material you need to
use your Avid Interplay system. This guide is intended for all Interplay users, from beginning to
advanced
The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system
n
might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.
Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
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> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
(Windows), (Windows
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Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface
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recommendations, and strong suggestions.
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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.
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indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.
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operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.
items and keyboard sequences.
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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:
- 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 media as a PDF document (README_product.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 a v ailable. To
view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit the Kno wledge Base
at www.avid.com/readme.
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mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.
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 troubl eshooting t ips, to do wnload updates, and to
read or join online message-board discussions.
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Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal
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.
Interplay Documentation
The following documents describe how to use Avid Interplay:
• 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.
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Interplay Documentation
• Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide — describes how to set up a cluster configuration for
the Avid Interplay Engine and the Avid Interplay Archive engine. There are two versions of
this guide: one for SR2500 systems and one for AS3000 systems.
• Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Arc hive Engine Administr ation 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 Instinct User’s Guide — describes how to use the Avid Instinct application to write
iNEWS stories and put together simple audio and video sequences.
• Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide — Avid Interplay Media Services
lets you control and automate Transcode, Archive, and ProEncode services.
• 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 Service Fr ame work User’s Guide — describes how to use the logging, monitoring, and
management features of the Avid Service Framework applications.
• 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 Capture User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Capture, a ne wsroom
ingest tool that enables automated recordings.
• Avid Interplay Capture Administrator’s Guide — describes administrative concepts, tasks,
and reference material for Avid Interplay Capture.
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• 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.
All documents are available in PDF form on the Interplay Porta l and also on the Avid Knowledge
Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport.
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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 offe rs ne w trai ning del i v ery met hods
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
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1 Avid Interplay Components
This chapter provides a brief overview of the main components that make up an Avid Interplay
environment.
• Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink
• Avid Interplay Engine
• Avid Interplay Access
• Avid Interplay Administrator
• Interplay Window
• Avid Interplay Transfer
• Avid Instinct
• Avid Interplay Media Services Providers
• Avid Interplay Assist
• iNews and Avid Instinct
• Archive and Restore Services
• MediaManager to Avid Interplay Migration Tool
• Avid Interplay Media Indexer
• Avid Interplay Low Res Encode
• Service Framework Services
• CaptureManager and Interplay Capture
• Access Control and Media Deletion Model
• Interplay Application Icons
Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink
MultiRez (a term derived from “multiple resolutions”) allows you to associate a single master
clip with multiple media files of different resolutions. For example, you can associate the same
master clip with low-resolution MPEG-2, JFIF 15:1s, and uncompressed media files. MultiRez
also works with audio files: you can associate an audio clip with more than one sample rate.
In an Avid Interplay environment, you can capture a master clip in multiple resolutions or
transcode a clip to another resolution, and you can easily switch between the different
resolutions. This switching is referred to as dynamic relink. Dynamic relink is us eful wh en you
want to work with low-resolution media and create your final master in high-resolution media.
For more information, see “Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink” in the following documents:
• Avid Media Composer Editing Guide
• Avid Symphony Editing Guide
• Avid NewsCutter Editing Guide
This information is also included in the Help for these products or the Interplay Help.For
additional information, see “Dynamic Relink: Working with a Single Resolution” on page 230.
Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink
Avid Interplay Engine
The Avid Interplay Engine forms the backbone of the Interplay en vironment. The Inte rpla y
Engine is a server that combines an asset database with workflow management software, both of
which are integrated with Avid shared storage and Avid archive solutions. This topic provides
basic information about the functions and components of the Interplay Engine.
The Avid Interplay Engine provides the following features:
• Management of Avid assets (for example, master clips and sequences) as well as file assets
(for example, Adobe Photoshop
• Version control for sequences and file assets
• Integration with Avid ISIS
• Support for MultiRez (multiple resolution) workflows
• Access control through groups as follows:
- Five fixed user roles: Administrator, Read/Write/Delete, Read/Write, Read, and No
Access
- A user can be part of several groups
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Avid Interplay Access
- Permissions can be modified at the folder level
• Import on the desktop level to Avid Interplay Access
• Use the Interplay Window to check in and check out to the database from the Avid editing
application
• Support for MXF media files and AAF metadata
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• Failover capability (using Windows
2003 Enterprise Server), including Auto-Failover to
hot spare (Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine only)
• Simplified workgroup delete rules including the following:
- The administrator can specify the delete permissions that users and groups have on
particular folders. You use Reservations to protect the media files related to Avid assets.
- Media can be protected by reservations that have time and date expirations
- Reservations protect assets and media placed in a protected folder
- You can use the Avid Interplay Access softw are to place personal reserv ations on folders
For information on the Avid Interplay Engine, see Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive
Engine Administration Guide and the Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide.
Avid Interplay Access
The Avid Interplay Access software is a dedicated application that can be used by system
administrators and other designated users such as editors, assistants, and producers to interact
with the Avid Interplay Engine.
The Avid Interplay Access user interface allows you to quickly search or browse its contents for
assets of interest. Drag-and-drop support allows you to obtain Avid assets by dragging them to
the Avid editing applications Interplay Window.
Av id Interplay Access provides search tools and an Object Inspector that allow anyone from
artists to editors to easily find shots, clips, sequences, or other elements defined for the project
without even knowing file names, and to quickly see the dependencies and relatives involved.
You can also use A vid Interpl ay Access to manage se quences and oth er Avid assets whose media
is no longer online. You can then search for these assets, view information about them such as
the source tape name, obtain the source footage, and recapt ure it.
The following illustration show s Avid Interplay Access.
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Avid Interplay Administrator
You can play Avid video and audio clips in the Interplay Access Monitor if the clips are
associated with MPEG-4/H.263 or H.264 video media, MPEG1 Layer 2 audio media, or both.
For more information about Avid Interplay Access, see the Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide.
Avid Interplay Administrator
The Interplay Administrator is a cross-platform application used for basic administration of the
A vid Interplay Engine and the Avid Interplay Archive Engine. Supported capabilities include the
following:
• Database activation, creation, and security
• Scheduling backups
• Server licensing configuration
• Central configuration server setup of users
The following illustration shows the User Management window of the Avid Interplay
Administrator application.
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Interplay Window
For information on using the Interplay Administrator, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid
Archive Engine Administration Guide. For information on setting up a user database, see
“Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay Access” on page 47.
Interplay Window
The Interplay window allow you to share Avid assets with other users in the Avid Interplay
environment. The Interplay window provide the following capabilities:
• Avid editing applications such as Avid NewsCutter
Media Composer
Interplay window. The Avid Interplay window displays the same folder structure you see in
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, and Avid Symphony™ can work with Avid assets through the Avid
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, Avid NewsCutter XP, Avid
Interplay Window
the Avid Interplay Access interface. You can capture material to an Avid Interplay window
and edit those clips into a sequence in a bin. You can also check sequences into the Avid
Interplay window for asset management and for sharing with other editors.
• Avid Instinct and Avid Assist allow you to access remote assets directly. The interface is
similar to the Avid Interplay window. For example, an Instinct journalist can work with
remote assets without copying the files locally and without having to check the files in and
out of the Interplay Engine. The interface provides quick access to story information. You
can work on and finish your stories without having to copy files to your local system.
Key features of the Interplay Window include the following:
• C apture (digitize) directly into an Avid Interplay window
• Save current state and restore on relaunch
• Drag from editing application bins to the Avid Interplay window and vice versa
• Edit remote clips directly into a sequence
• Search the Avid Interplay database
• Create shortcuts
Avid editors must edit sequences, render, and consolidate in bins.
The following illustration shows the Interplay W indow within an Avid editing application.
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Interplay Window
For more information, see “Working with Avid Interplay from an Avid Editing System” in the
Interplay Help, the Help for your Avid editing application or one of the following guides:.
• Avid Media Composer Editing Guide
• Avid Symphony Editing Guide
• Avid NewsCutter Editing Guide
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Avid Interplay Transfer
Avid Interplay Transfer lets you transfer Avid assets to and from another workgroup, send
finished sequences to a configured playback device, and capture media from a configured ingest
device. You can also use Interplay Transfer in a standalone environment (an environment other
than Avid shared storage) to move Avid assets between workstations.
The Avid Interplay Transfer Engine and client software operates as TransferManager does in a
MediaManager environment. In addition, it supports the following features:
• You can perform MediaManager-to-Avid Interplay transfers from a MediaManager brow ser
to a an Avid Interplay Transfer Status window or to a bin in an Avid Editing application
within your Avid Interplay environment.
• Standalone Interplay Transfer support is provided in the Avid editing applications.
• Support for a Transfer Cache Engine that can monitor transfers for a large number of users.
This removes the task of reporting transfer status from the Interplay Transfer Engine.
The following illustration shows the Interplay Transfer Status window viewed from the Avid
Interplay Administrator.
Avid Interplay Transfer
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For information on Interplay Transfer, see the Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.
Avid Interplay-to-OMF transfers are not supported.
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Avid Instinct
Av id Instinct™ is a story creation tool that introduces a story line designed to support the way
that journalists create a story. Avid Instinct, an iNEWS client, is a script-based application that is
tightly integrated with iNEWS. It uses iNEWS metadata for the story that is being written.
Instinct supports a subset of the Avid editing features, including the following:
• Recording voice-over to the story line
• Simple searches
• Edit while capture
• Send to Playback
Instinct also incorporates the following new features that support the Avid Interplay
environment:
• Support for MultiRez workflow
Avid Instinct
• Access to iNEWS stories and Avid Interplay Window assets eliminates the need to copy
media and story information to a local system
• Integrated asset management, providing search, query, and organization capabilities with the
Interplay Window.
For more information, see the Avid Instinct User’s Guide.
Avid Interplay Media Services Providers
The Avid Interplay Media Services application supports the following types of transcode
services:
• Avid Interplay Transcode allows you to transcode clips from one Avid-supported resolution
to another. For example, you can create a low-resolution version of a sequence or master
clip. You can perform transcode operations from within the A vid editing application or from
within Avid Interplay Access.
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• Avid Interplay ProEncode
operations. For example, you can transcode from an Avid resolution to Windows Media File
format.
services use third party software for non-Avid format transcode
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• The Copy service allows you to copy media and metadata between different Interplay
Workgroups.
• The Move service allows you to move media and metadata between dif ferent w orkspaces on
the same Avid ISIS system.
• The STP Encode service allows you off load time-consuming processing involved in
exporting and transferring of Long GOP OP1a media, during a send-to-playback request
from the Avid editing application or Avid Interplay Assist. See “Workflow for Background
Processing of Long GOP Splicing and Transferring of Long GOP OP1a Media” on
page 141.
For more information, see the Avid Interplay Media Services Setup an d User’s Guide. For
hardware configuration information, see the Interplay Software Installation and Configuration
Guide.
Avid Interplay Assist
Avid Interplay Assist allows you to perform the following tasks:
• Search the Avid Interplay Engine database
• Play media
Avid Interplay Assist
• Add locators and locator information
• Select, view, and create shotlists
• Send to playback
•Archive
The following illustration show s Avid Interplay Assist.
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Avid Interplay Assist
You can also use A vid Interplay Assist to quic kly preview clips. All resolutions supported by the
Avid editing applications are supported.
Av id Interplay Assist also provides the following additional features:
• Restrictions — Support for a restriction marker indicating that a range of media being used
is somehow restricted for use. These markers do not prevent usage, but alert the user that a
restriction is in place. This feature is also referred to as Digital Rights Management (DRM).
• Annotations — labels you can attach to locators. Annotations support special markers such
as the following:
- Restricted flag
- Best Picture
-Best Sound
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- User-created custom annotation markers
• Metadata — textual data you can use to identify and describe the creation, contents, and
disposition of a clip or shotlist
• Searching across multiple logs
• Log filtering
For more information, see the Avid Interplay Assist User’s Guide.
iNews and Avid Instinct
The A vid iNEWS newsroom computer system (NRCS) is a powerful tool for developing news,
rundowns, and stories. Avid Instinct allows producers, writers, and journalists to write Avid
iNEWS stories and combine them with simple audio and video sequences that are available
through the Avid Interplay Engine.
For additional information, see the Avid Instinct User’s Guide.
Archive and Restore Services
iNews and Avid Instinct
An Avid Interplay environment supports a separate asset manager known as the Avid Interplay
Archive Engine to track archived assets. The basic features and functionality that are used to
track assets in the online storage system, including MultiRez support, are also available for the
archived assets. The Interplay Archive Engine also supports partial file restore of Avid MXF
media in the archive. A partial restore refers to a situation where there might be a large master
clip in the archive but your sequence only uses a small portion of the master clip. A partial
restore restores only the portion of the file that you need.
The following illustration show s an archive database displayed in Interplay Access.
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