Pinnacle Systems Interplay - 3.0 Best Practices Guide

Avid® Interplay

Best Practices Guide

Version 3.0

Legal Notices

Product specifications are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment on the part of Avid Technology, Inc. This product is subject to the terms and conditions of a software license agreement provided with the software. The product may

only be used in accordance with the license agreement. Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following United States Patents: 5,309,528; 5,440,348;

5,467,288; 5,513,375; 5,528,310; 5,557,423; 5,577,190; 5,584,006; 5,640,601; 5,644,364; 5,654,737; 5,724,605; 5,726,717; 5,745,637; 5,752,029; 5,754,851; 5,799,150; 5,812,216; 5,828,678; 5,842,014; 5,852,435; 5,959,610, 5,986,584; 5,999,406; 6,038,573; 6,057,829, 6,069,668; 6,141,007; 6,211,869; 6,336,093, 6,532,043; 6,546,190; 6,596,031;6,728,682, 6,747,705; 6,763,523; 6,766,357; 6,847,373; 7,081,900; 7,403,561; 7,433,519; 7,441,193, 7,671,871; 7,684,096; 7,836,389 and 7,916,363; 7,930,624; 8,023,568; 8,082,226; 8,154,776; D352,278; D372,478; D373,778; D392,267; D392,268; D392,269; D395,291; D396,853; D398,912. Other patents are pending.

Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following European Pat ents: 0506870; 0635188; 0674414; 0752174; 0811290; 0811292; 0811293; 1050048; 1111 910; 1629675, and 0972256. Other patents are pending.

This document is protected under copyright law. An authorized licensee of Interplay Assist may reproduce this publication for the licensee’s own use in learning how t o use th e soft w a re . This docu ment may not be reproduced or distributed, in whole or in part, for commercial purposes, such as selling copies of this document or providing sup port or educational services to others. This document is supplied as a guide for Interplay Assist. Reasonable care has been taken in preparing the information it contains. However, this document may contain omissions, technical inaccuracies, or typographical errors. Avid Technology, Inc. does not accept responsibility of any kind for customers’ losses due to th e use of this d ocument. Product specification s are subject to change without notice.

The following disclaimer is required by Apple Computer, Inc.:

APPLE COMPUTER, INC. MAKES NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THIS PRODUCT, INCLUDING WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY P ARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES IS NOT PERMITTED BY SOME STATES. THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY PROVIDES YOU WITH SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS. THERE MAY BE OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

The following disclaimer is required by Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics, Inc. for the use of their TIFF library:

Permission to use, copy, modify , distribute, and sell this software [i.e., the TIFF library] and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS , IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMA GES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FR OM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

The following disclaimer is required by the Independent JPEG Group:

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

This Software may contain components licensed under the following conditions:

Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are

duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, adv ertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software wit hout specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Permission to use, copy, modify , and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Copyright 1995, Trinity College Computing Center. Written by David Chappell. Permission to use, copy, modify , and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby

granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Daniel Dardailler no t be used in adv ertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the so ftw are without specific, written prior permission. Daniel Dardailler makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Modifications Copyright 1999 Matt Koss, under the same license as above. Copyright (c) 1991 by AT&T. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire

notice is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting documentation for such software.

THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR AT&T MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.

The following disclaimer is required by Nexidia Inc.:

© 2010 Nexidia Inc. All rights reserved, worldwide. Nexidia and the Nexidia logo are trademarks of Nexidia I nc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All Nexidia materials regardless of form, including without limitation, software applications, documentation and any other information relating to Nexidia Inc., and its products and services are the exclusive property of Nexidia Inc. or its licensors. The Nexidia products and services described in these materials may be covered by Nexidia's United States patents: 7,231,351; 7,263,484; 7,313,521; 7,324,939; 7,406,415, 7,475,065; 7,487,086 and/or other patents pending and may be manufactured under license from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation USA.

The following disclaimer is required by Paradigm Matrix:

Portions of this software licensed from Paradigm Matrix.

The following disclaimer is required by Ray Sauers Associates, Inc.:

“Install-It” is licensed from Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. End-User is prohibited from taking any action to derive a source code equivalent of “Install-It,” including by reverse assembly or rev erse compilation , Ray Saue rs Associates, Inc. shall in no e v ent be liab le for any damages resulting from reseller’s failure to perform reseller’s obligation; or an y damages arising from use or operation of reseller’s products or the software; or any other damages, including but not limited to, incidental, direct, indirect, special or consequential Damages including lost profits, or damages resulting from loss of use or inability to use reselle r’s products or the software for any reason including copyright or patent infringement, or lost data, even if Ray Sauers Associates has been advised, knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages.

The following disclaimer is required by Videomedia, Inc.:

“Videomedia, Inc. makes no warranties whatsoever, either express or implied, regarding this product, including warranties with respect to its merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose.”

“This software contains V-LAN ver. 3.0 Command Protocols which communicate with V-LAN ver. 3.0 products developed by Videomedia, Inc. and V -LAN v er. 3.0 compatible products developed by third parties under license from Videomedia, Inc. Use of this software will allow “frame accurate” editing control of applicab le videot ape recorder decks, videodisc recorders/players and the like.”

The following disclaimer is required by Altur a Software , Inc. f or the use of its Mac2Win software and Sample Source Code:

The following disclaimer is required by Ultimatte Corporation:

Certain real-time compositing capabilities are provided under a license of such technology from Ultimatte Corporation and are subject to copyright protection.

The following disclaimer is required by 3Prong.com Inc.:

Certain waveform and vector monitoring capabilities are provided under a license from 3Prong.com Inc.

The following disclaimer is required by Interplay Entertainment Corp.:

The “Interplay” name is used with the permission of Interplay Entertainment Corp., which bears no responsibility for Avid products. This product includes portions of the Alloy Look & Feel software from Incors GmbH. This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). © DevelopMentor

This product may include the JCifs library, for which the following notice applies:

Avid Interplay contains components licensed from LavanTech. These components may only be used as part of and in connection with Avid Interplay.

Interplay Production Streaming Server includes Live5 55, which is covered by the GNU Lesser Gener al Public License. “Live555 is Copyright (c) 1996-2011, Live Networks, Inc. and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, which is included with this product.”

This product includes software developed by Indiana University Extreme! Lab (http // :www.extreme.indiana.edu/)/

Attn. Government User(s). Restricted Rights Legend

U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS. This Software and its documentation are “commercial computer software” or “commercial computer software documentation.” In the event that such Software or documentation is acquired by or on behalf of a unit or agency of the U.S. Government, all rights with respect to this Software and documentatio n are subject to the terms of the License Agreement, pursuant to FAR §12.212(a) and/or DFARS §227.7202-1(a), as applicable.

Trademarks

003, 192 Digital I/O, 192 I/O, 96 I/O, 96i I/O, Adrenaline, AirSpeed, ALEX, Alienbrain, AME, AniMatte, Archive, Archive II, Assistant Station, AudioPages, AudioStation, AutoLoop , AutoSync, Avid, Avid Active, Avid Advanced Response, Avid DNA, Avid DNxcel, A vid DNxHD, A vid DS Assist St ation, A vid Ignite , A vid Liquid, A vid Media En gine, Avid Media Processor, Avid MEDIArray, Avid Mojo, A v id Remote Response, Avid Unity, Avid Unity ISIS, A vid VideoRAID, AvidRAID, AvidShare, AVIDstripe, AVX, Beat Detective, Beauty Without The Bandwidth, Beyond Reality, BF Essentials, Bomb Factory, Bruno, C|24, CaptureManager, ChromaCurve, ChromaWheel, Cineractive Engine, Cineractive Player, Cineractive Viewer, Color Conductor, Command|24, Command|8, Control|24, Cosmonaut Voice, CountDown, d2, d3, DAE, D-Command, D-Control, Deko, DekoCast, D-Fi, D-fx, Digi 002, Digi 003, DigiBase, Digidesign, Digidesign Audio Engine, Digidesign Development Partners, Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction, Digidesign TDM Bus, DigiLink, DigiMeter, DigiPanner, DigiProNet, DigiRack, DigiSerial, DigiSnake, DigiSystem, Digital Choreography, Digital Nonlinear Accelerator, DigiTest, DigiT r anslator, DigiWear, DINR, DNxchange, Do More, DPP-1, D-Show, DSP Manager, DS-StorageCalc, DV Toolkit, DVD Complete, D-Verb, Eleven, EM, Euphonix, EUCON, EveryPhase, Expander, ExpertRender, Fader P ac k, Fairchild, FastBreak, Fast Track, Film Cutter, FilmScribe, Fle x ev ent, FluidMotion, F r ame Chase, FXDek o, HD Core, HD Process, HDpack, Home-to-Hollywood, HYBRID, HyperSPACE, HyperSPACE HDCAM, iKnowledge, Image Independence, Impact, Improv, iNEWS, iNEWS Assign, iNEWS ControlAir, InGame, Instantwrite, Instinct, Intelligent Content Management, Intelligent Digital Actor Technology, IntelliRender, Intelli-Sat, Intelli-sat Broadcasting Recording Manager, InterFX, Interplay, inTONE, Intraframe, iS Expander , iS9, iS18, iS23, iS36, ISIS, IsoSync, LaunchPad, LeaderPlus, LFX, Lightning, Link & Sync, ListSync, LKT-200, Lo-Fi, MachineControl, Magic Mask, Make Anything Hollywood, make manage move | media, Marquee, MassivePack, Massive Pack Pro, Maxim, Mbox, Media Composer, MediaFlow, MediaLog, MediaMix, Media Reader, Media Recorder, MEDIArray, MediaServer, MediaShare, MetaFuze, MetaSync, MIDI I/O, Mix Rack, Moviestar, MultiShell, NaturalMatch, NewsCutter, NewsVie w, NewsVision, Nitris, NL3D, NLP, NSDOS, NSWIN, OMF, OMF Interchange, OMM, OnDVD, Open Media Framework, Open Media Management, Painterly Effects, Palladium, Personal Q, PET, Podcast Factory, PowerSwap, PRE, ProControl, ProEncode, Profiler, Pro Tools, Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools M-Powered, Pro Transfer, QuickPunch, QuietDrive, Realtime Motion Synthesis, Recti-Fi, Reel Tape Delay, Reel Tape Flanger, Reel Tape Saturation, Reprise, Res Rocket Surfer, Reso, RetroLoop, Reverb One, ReVibe, Revolution, rS9, rS18, RTAS, Salesview, Sci-Fi, Scorch, ScriptSync, SecureProductionEnvironment, Serv|GT, Serv|LT, Shape-to-Shape, ShuttleCase, Sibelius, SimulPlay, SimulRecord, Slightly Rude Compressor, Smack!, Soft SampleCell, Soft-Clip Limiter, SoundReplacer, SPACE, SPACEShift, SpectraGraph, SpectraMatte, SteadyGlide, Streamfactory, Streamgenie, StreamRAID, SubCap, Sundance, Sundance Digital, SurroundScope, Symphony, SYNC

HD, SYNC I/O, Synchronic, SynchroScope, Syntax, TDM FlexCable, TechFlix, Tel-Ray, Thunder, TimeLiner, Titansync, Tit an, TL Aggro, TL AutoPan, TL Drum Rehab, TL Everyphase, TL Fauxlder, TL In Tune, TL MasterMeter, TL Metro, TL Space, TL Utilities, tools for storytellers, Transit, TransJammer, Trillium Lane Labs, TruTouch, UnityRAID, Vari-Fi, Video the Web Way, VideoRAID, VideoSPACE, VTEM, Work-N-Play, Xdeck, X-Form, Xmon and XPAND! are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

Footage

Arri — Courtesy of Arri/Fauer — John Fauer, Inc. Bell South “Anticipation” — Courtesy of Two Headed Monster — Tucker/Wayne Atlanta/GMS. Canyonlands — Courtesy of the National Park Service/Department of the Interior. Eco Challenge British Columbia — Courtesy of Eco Challenge Lifestyles, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Eco Challenge Morocco — Courtesy of Discovery Communications, Inc. It’s Shuttletime — Courtesy of BCP & Canadian Airlines. Nestlé Coffee Crisp — Courtesy of MacLaren McCann Canada. Saturn “Calvin Egg” — Courtesy of Cossette Communications. “Tigers: Tracking a Legend” — Courtesy of www.wildlifeworlds.com, Carol Amore, Executive Producer. "The Big Swell" — Courtesy of Swell Pictures, Inc. Windhorse — Courtesy of Paul Wagner Productions.

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.

News material provided by WFTV Television Inc.

Avid Interplay Best Practices • 0130-07639-04 Rev J • Created 6/26/13 • 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 1 Avid Interplay Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Avid Interplay Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Avid Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Avid Interplay Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Avid Interplay Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Avid Instinct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Avid Interplay Media Services Providers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Avid Interplay Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

iNews and Avid Instinct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Archive and Restore Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

MediaManager Archive Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

MediaManager to Avid Interplay Migration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Avid Interplay Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Service Framework Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Interplay Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Access Control and Media Deletion Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Interplay Application Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter 2 Setting Up a Folder Structure and a User Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Permissions and Folder Structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Assigning Access Rights to User Groups on a Folder Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Assigning Database Access on a Project Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Managing Database Roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Defining the Editor Database Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Managing the Instinct/Assist User Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Creating Folders for Capturing Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 3 Developing an Interplay Delete Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Introduction to Interplay Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Interplay Database Folder Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Folders Used by AirSpeed and CaptureManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Folders Used by Interplay Transfer Checkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Folders Used by Send to Playback Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Project and Bin Folders Created by the Avid Editing Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Creating Avid Editing Projects in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Creating Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Interplay Settings in the Editing Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Defining the Interplay Folder Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Defining the Media Creation Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Project Workflow Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Broadcast Project Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Post Environment Project Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using Project Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Example: Deletion for Day-of-the-Week Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Sample Delete Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Project Folders – Editor Projects (Daily) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Projects Folder – Ingest or AirSpeed Folders (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Incoming Media (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Sent to Playback (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Avid Instinct Assets (Daily). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Orphan Clips (Weekly). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Un-Checked In Avid Assets (Weekly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Deleted Items (Weekly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Avid Editing Application Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Example: Orphan Clips Deletion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Deletion Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Determining How Much Space a Delete Operation Will Free Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Searching for Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Saved Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Improving Search Response Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Examples: Using Search with Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Example: Searching for Unused Rendered Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Chapter 4 Determining Interplay Database Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Definition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Total Used Database Pages and Estimated Database Page Limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Interplay Engine Database Page Limits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Comparing Database Page Count and Cache Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Database Activity Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Tips for Improving Database Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Establish a Stable Ratio Between Database Objects and Database Pages. . . . . . . . . 101

Calculating the Ratio Between Pages and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Example: Using the Ratio to Plan for Database Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 5 Refining Your Search in Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Using the Search Root and Attributes to Speed Up Interplay Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Basic Interplay Search Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Searching in Assist, Instinct, and the Interplay Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Searching in Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Example: Finding Assets By Using a Unique Identifier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Chapter 6 Using AMA Material in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

AMA on Interplay Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Viewing AMA Clips in Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

How the Media Indexer Works with AMA Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Checking AMA Media Into Interplay - Comparing OP-ATOM and OP-1A . . . . . . . 127

Configuring the Media Indexer to Index AMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Viewing Statistics about AMA Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Using the Storage Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Chapter 7 Sony XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX End-to-End Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

MPEG-2 Long GOP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Long GOP Benefits and Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Supported File Formats for XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Long GOP Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Capture Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Editing Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Output Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Workflow for Background Processing of Long GOP Splicing and

Transferring of Long GOP OP1a Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Chapter 8 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Overview of the 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Editor MultiRez Workflow for 720p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Working with a MultiRez Clip in the Editor and Performing a Partial Restore . . . . 147

720p MultiRez Workflow Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Capturing High Res 720p Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Transcoding to 720p Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Archiving the High Res 720p Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Deleting the High Res Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Searching for and Restoring High Res Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Restoring a Full Clip from the Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Performing a Partial Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Setting Up the Media Services Profiles for a 720p MultiRez Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Creating Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Media Service Profile Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Chapter 9 H.264 End-to-End MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

H.264 Resolutions Supported by Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Installation and Configuration for an H.264 Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

H.264 Workflow Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

H.264 Card for AirSpeed Multi Stream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Folders and Shared-Storage Workspaces for an H.264 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Media Services Profiles for an H.264 Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Configuring Interplay Clients for an H.264 MultiRez Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Acquiring Media for an H.264 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Dual-Ingest for High-Res Media and H.264 Proxy Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Transcoding to Create H.264 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Editing with H.264 and High-Res . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Archiving, Restoring, and Deleting H.264 and High-Res Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Chapter 10 HD 23.976p and HD 24p Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Interplay Support for Native HD 23.976p and HD 24p Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Interplay Support for HD 23.976p and HD 24p Proxy Resolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Chapter 11 Apple ProRes Resolutions Supported in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Chapter 12 JPEG 2000 Resolutions Supported in Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Chapter 13 Support for Stereoscopic 3D Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Overview of Stereoscopic Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Stereoscopic Media and Stereoscopic Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Stereoscopic 3D Support in the Interplay Window, Interplay Assist, and

Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Properties for Stereoscopic Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Chapter 14 DNxHD 100 Resolutions Supported in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Chapter 15 XAVC-Intra Resolutions Supported in Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Chapter 16 Using Frame Chase Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Frame Chase Editing and Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Understanding Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Workflow for Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Limitations When Working With In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Chapter 17 Additional Interplay Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Changing Source Information for a Clip in Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Ingest and Playout of Ancillary Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Support for AFD Ancillary Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Dynamic Relink: Working with a Single Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Restricting Clips to a Single Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Turning Off Dynamic Relink for Avid Assist and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Disconnecting an Avid Editing Application from the Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . 230

Chapter 18 Working with Avid Interplay Media Indexers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

New Features Added for Media Indexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Multiple ISIS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Changes for Log Files and Cache Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Improved File Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Managing the Order of Storage Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Viewing the Size of Indexed Workspaces and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Media Indexer Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Configuring Media Indexers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Web-Based User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Configuration Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Statistics Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Storage Browser and Storage Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Managing Media Indexers in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Improving Media Indexer Performance by Limiting the File Count in

Media File Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Media Indexer Restart Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Ignoring Global Delete Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Changing the Resync Interval for a Media Indexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Import and Export Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Troubleshooting Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Remote Mode Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Media Indexer Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Resolving Memory Threshold Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

MI Logging Capability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Additional Logging Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Media Indexer, Interplay Assist, and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Checking Media Indexer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

If The Media Indexer Service Does Not Appear on the Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Shutting Down the Media Indexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Media Indexer Health Monitor Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Media Indexing Workers Thread Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Storage Activity, Storage Resync Status, and Storage Root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Media Table Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Media Table Operations and Media Table Queries Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Checking Media Indexer Memory Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Suppressing Alerts in the Health Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Media Indexer Health Monitor Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Appendix A Interplay Maintenance Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Interplay Daily Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Interplay Weekly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Interplay Monthly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Avid ISIS Recommended Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Complete Server Room Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Appendix B Archive Migration (Workgroup 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Searching for Migrated Workgroup 4 Archive Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Restoring Migrated Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Restoring Different Versions of a MediaManager Archive Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Locating the Correct Version to Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Setting the Correct Version Information for the Clip in Interplay Access . . . . . . . . 291

Restoring the Clip from the MediaManager Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Working with OMF Media Files After an Archive Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Deleting the Online OMF Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Retained Workgroup 4 Clip Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

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

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

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

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.

If You Need Help

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

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

Courier Bold font

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:

- 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/support.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

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/support. 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.

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.

Interplay Documentation

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 A vid Interplay installation progra ms to install and con fig ure softwa re on the v arious syst ems 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. 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 Training Services

• 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 other Interplay Media 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 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.

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

www .avid.com/onlinesupport.

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).

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

• Service Framework Services

• 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 228.

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

™

and Microsoft® Office files)

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. Interplay v3.0 adds support for AMA media.

• 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.

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.

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 35.

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

, and Avid Symphony™ can work with Avid assets through the Avid

, 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.

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

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

For information on Interplay Transfer, see the Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.

Avid Interplay-to-OMF transfers are not supported.

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.

™

• 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

• 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 143.

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.

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

- 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.

Archive and Restore Services

Safe image identifies the archive database

Avid Interplay online database

Avid Interplay Archive database

Tree view

The Avid Interplay Media Services application supports Archive and Restore services that manage the process of moving data. You can access the Archive and Restore operations from within the Avid editing applications and from within Avid Interplay Access.

You can send high-resolution media to archive and keep a low-resolution version of the asset in the online storage system. This allows you to edit wi th the low-res asset and conform a “partial” file of the high-res asset from the archive.

The Auto Archive feature includes the following:

• An auto-archive folder that triggers an archive of any material placed in the folder

• Duplication of archive items automatically prevented (default option)

• Ability to append metadata and logging information to archived material

For additional information, see the Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

MediaManager Archive Solutions

Starting at Interplay v1.1.4, you can migrate MediaManager v4.5.x (also known as Workgroup 4) archived assets to an Interplay Archive environment. See your Avid representative for details on performing the migration. See “Archive Migration (Workgroup 4)” on page 287.

MediaManager to Avid Interplay Migration Tool

You can migrate much of your MediaManager environment metadata to an Avid Interplay workgroup with the Migration tool. You can migrate clips, sequences, and effects from projects, catalogs, workspaces, and users. You can also migrate MediaManager Archive metadata to an Interplay Archive system. For more information, see your Avid representative.

Avid Interplay Media Indexer

The Avid Interplay Media Indexer is a background service that keeps track of the media files in storage locations that you identify. In an Avid Interplay environment, each Avid editing application has its own local Media Indexer that manages the local storage areas on that system. Each Avid Interplay environment also has at least one Media Indexer that manages media on shared storage. When the Avid editing application needs to access media on shared storage, it communicates with its local Media Indexer, which then communicates with the shared storage Media Indexer. For more information, see “Working with Avid Interplay Media Indexers” on

page 231.

Service Framework Services

Avid Service Framework is a common service distribution framework, which enables the configuration and monitoring of Avid services and applications in an Interplay en vironment.

Avid Service Framework consists of applications and services that provide dynamic discovery and lookup mechanisms, a scalable notification system, a centralized configuration tool, diagnostic logging for workgroup-enabled applications and services, system health monitoring, and so on. Some of the services are known collectively as Support services. The Support services are viewed, monitored, and configured using the Service Framework applications.

The Avid Service Framework provides the following tools for Avid Interplay:

• Scalable notification mechanism

• Configuration tool for centralizing configuration tasks

• Diagnostic Logging application for consistent logging across all Interplay applications

• Health and Monitoring application

+ 272 hidden pages

Pinnacle Systems Interplay - 3.0 Best Practices Guide

Contents

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal

Interplay Documentation

Avid Training Services

1 Avid Interplay Components

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 Archive Solutions

MediaManager to Avid Interplay Migration Tool

Avid Interplay Media Indexer

Service Framework Services