Pinnacle Systems Interplay - 3.3 User Manual

Interplay® | Production

Best Practices Guide

Version 3.3

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Interplay | Production Best Practices • Created 6/25/15 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Interplay Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 1 Interplay | Production Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Interplay | Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Interplay | Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Interplay | Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Interplay | Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Avid Instinct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Interplay | Production Services Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Interplay | Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

iNews and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Archive and Restore Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

MediaManager to Interplay Migration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Interplay | Media Indexer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Service Framework Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Interplay | Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Access Control and Media Deletion Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Interplay Application Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 2 Setting Up a Folder Structure and a User Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Permissions and Folder Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay | Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Assigning Database Access on a Project Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Defining the Editor Database Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Managing the Instinct/Assist User Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Creating Folders for Capturing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 3 Developing an Interplay Delete Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Introduction to Interplay Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Interplay Database Folder Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating Avid Editing Projects in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Project Workflow Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Example: Deletion for Day-of-the-Week Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Example: Orphan Clips Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Deletion Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Determining How Much Space a Delete Operation Will Free Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Searching for Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Chapter 4 Refining Your Search in Interplay | Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using the Search Root and Attributes to Speed Up Interplay | Production Search . . . . 88

Basic Interplay | Production Search Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Searching in Interplay | Assist, Avid Instinct, and the Interplay Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Searching in Interplay | Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Example: Finding Assets By Using a Unique Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 5 Using AMA Material in Interplay | Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Overview of Working with AMA Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

AMA on Interplay | Production Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

How Interplay | Media Indexer Works with AMA Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Configuring Interplay | Administrator and Interplay | Media Indexer to Manage 

AMA Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Using Third-Party Storage for AMA Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Viewing AMA Clips in Interplay | Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Deleting AMA Clips Using Interplay | Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Resyncing AMA Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 6 Sony XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX End-to-End Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

MPEG-2 Long GOP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Supported File Formats for XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Long GOP Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Chapter 7 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Overview of the 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Editor MultiRez Workflow for 720p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

720p MultiRez Workflow Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Setting Up the Production Services Profiles for a 720p MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . 162

Chapter 8 Determining Interplay Database Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Definition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Total Used Database Pages and Estimated Database Page Limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Comparing Database Page Count and Cache Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Tips for Improving Database Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Establish a Stable Ratio Between Database Objects and Database Pages. . . . . . . . . 175

Chapter 9 H.264 End-to-End MultiRez Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

H.264 Resolutions Supported by Interplay | Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Installation and Configuration for an H.264 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Acquiring Media for an H.264 Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Editing with H.264 and High-Res . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Archiving, Restoring, and Deleting H.264 and High-Res Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Chapter 10 HD 23.976p and HD 24p Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Interplay Production Support for Native HD 23.976p and HD 24p Formats . . . . . . . . . 201

Interplay Production Support for HD 23.976p and HD 24p Proxy Resolutions . . . . . . . 205

Chapter 11 Apple ProRes Resolutions Supported in Interplay | Production . . . . . . . 207

Chapter 12 JPEG 2000 Resolutions Supported in Interplay | Production . . . . . . . . . . 210

Chapter 13 Support for Stereoscopic 3D Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Overview of Stereoscopic Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Stereoscopic Media and Stereoscopic Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay | Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay | Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

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

Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Properties for Stereoscopic Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Chapter 14 DNxHD Resolutions Supported in Interplay | Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Chapter 15 XAVC-Intra HD Resolutions Supported in Interplay | Production . . . . . . 224

Chapter 16 DNxHR Resolutions Supported in Interplay | Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Chapter 17 Using Frame Chase Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Frame Chase Editing and Frame Chase Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Understanding Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Workflow for Frame Chase Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Limitations When Working With In-Progress Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Chapter 18 Additional Interplay | Production Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Changing Source Information for a Clip in Interplay | Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Ingest and Playout of Ancillary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Support for AFD Ancillary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Dynamic Relink: Working with a Single Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Disconnecting an Avid Editing Application from the Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . 241

Chapter 19 Working with Interplay | Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

New Features for Interplay | Media Indexer V3.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

New Features for Media | Indexer V3.0 and V3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Interplay | Media Indexer Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Web-Based User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Managing Interplay | Media Indexers in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Troubleshooting Interplay | Media Indexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Interplay | Media Indexer Health Monitor Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Appendix A Interplay | Production Maintenance Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Interplay Daily Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Interplay Weekly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Interplay Monthly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Avid ISIS Recommended Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Complete Server Room Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Appendix B Archive Migration (Workgroup 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Searching for Migrated Workgroup 4 Archive Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Restoring Migrated Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Restoring Different Versions of a MediaManager Archive Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Working with OMF Media Files After an Archive Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Retained Workgroup 4 Clip Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of Interplay® Production, 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

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 installation programs to install and configure software on the various systems that make up a Interplay environment.

• Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide — describes how to set up a cluster configuration for the Avid Interplay Engine and the Avid Interplay Archive engine. There are two versions of this guide: one for SR2500 systems and one for AS3000 systems.

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

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

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

• Avid 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 Production Services Setup and User’s Guide — Avid Interplay Production Services lets you control and automate Transcode, Archive, and other Interplay Production Services.

Interplay Documentation

• 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 Framework 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 newsroom 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.

1 Interplay | Production Components

This chapter provides a brief overview of the main components that make up an Interplay

• Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink

• Interplay | Engine

• Interplay | Access

• Interplay | Administrator

• Interplay Window

• Interplay | Transfer

• Avid Instinct

• Interplay | Production Services Providers

• Interplay | Assist

• iNews and Avid Instinct

• Archive and Restore Services

• MediaManager to Interplay Migration Tool

Production environment.

• 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 Interplay Production 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 useful when 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 Avid Media Composer Editing Guide.

This information is also included in the Help for these products or the Interplay Production Help.For additional information, see

page 238.

Interplay | Engine

The Interplay Engine forms the backbone of the Interplay environment. The Interplay 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 Interplay Engine provides the following features:

Interplay | Engine

“Dynamic Relink: Working with a Single Resolution” on

• Management of Avid assets (for example, master clips and sequences) as well as file assets

(for example, Adobe Photoshop

and Microsoft® Office files)

• 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

- Permissions can be modified at the folder level

• Import on the desktop level to 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 (Interplay Engine and 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 Interplay Access software to place personal reservations on folders

For information on the Interplay Engine, see Interplay Engine and Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide and the Interplay Access User’s Guide.

Interplay | Access

The 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 Interplay Engine.

The 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.

Interplay | Access

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 Interplay Access to manage sequences and other 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 recapture it.

The following illustration shows Interplay Access.

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 Interplay Access, see the Interplay Access User’s Guide.

Interplay | Administrator

The Interplay Administrator is a cross-platform application used for basic administration of the Interplay Engine and the Interplay Archive Engine. Supported capabilities include the following:

• Database activation, creation, and security

• Scheduling backups

• Server licensing configuration

• Central configuration server setup of users

Interplay | Administrator

The following illustration shows the User Management window of the Interplay Administrator application.

For information on using the Interplay Administrator, see the Interplay Engine and Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide. For information on setting up a user database, see

“Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay | Access” on page 29.

Interplay Window

The Interplay window allow you to share Avid assets with other users in the Interplay Production environment. The Interplay window provide the following capabilities:

• Avid editing applications such as Avid Media Composer® can work with Avid assets through the Interplay window. The Interplay window displays the same folder structure you see in the Interplay Access interface. You can capture material to an Interplay window and edit those clips into a sequence in a bin. You can also check sequences into the Interplay window for asset management and for sharing with other editors.

• Avid Instinct and Interplay Assist allow you to access remote assets directly. The interface is similar to the 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:

• Capture (digitize) directly into the Interplay Window

• Save current state and restore on relaunch

• Drag from editing application bins to the Interplay window and vice versa

Interplay Window

• Edit remote clips directly into a sequence

• Search the Interplay Production database

• Create shortcuts

Avid editors must edit sequences, render, and consolidate in bins.

Interplay Window

The following illustration shows the Interplay Window within an Avid editing application.

For more information, see “Working with Interplay Production from an Avid Editing System” in the Interplay Production Help, the Help for your Avid editing application or the Avid Media Composer Editing Guide.

Interplay | Transfer

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 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-Interplay Production transfers from a MediaManager browser to a an Interplay Transfer Status window or to a bin in an Avid editing application within your Interplay Production 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 Interplay Administrator.

Interplay | Transfer

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

Interplay-to-OMF transfers are not supported.

Avid Instinct

Avid 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 Interplay Production environment:

• Support for MultiRez workflow

Avid Instinct

• Access to iNEWS stories and 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.

Interplay | Production Services Providers

The Interplay Production Services application supports the following services:

• 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 Avid editing application or from within Interplay Access.

• 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 different workspaces 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

Processing of Long GOP Splicing and Transferring of Long GOP OP1a Media” on page 140.

• The Delivery service lets you perform workgroup-to-workgroup transfers of shotlists, subclips, master clips, cuts-only sequences, and their media files. Interplay Delivery Receiver is also a service that is part of Interplay Production Services. However, it runs as a Windows service.

• The Interplay Archive service and the Interplay Restore service. See “Archive and Restore

Services” on page 22

For more information, see the Interplay Production Services Setup and User’s Guide. For hardware configuration information, see the Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

Interplay | Assist

Interplay Assist allows you to perform the following tasks:

Interplay | Assist

“Workflow for Background

• Search the Interplay Engine database

• Play media

• Add locators and locator information

• Select, view, and create shotlists

• Send to playback

•Archive

The following illustration shows Interplay Assist.

Interplay | Assist

You can also use Interplay Assist to quickly preview clips. All resolutions supported by the Avid editing applications are supported.

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 Interplay Assist User’s Guide.

iNews and Avid Instinct

The Avid 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 Interplay Engine.

For additional information, see the Avid Instinct User’s Guide.

iNews and Avid Instinct

Archive and Restore Services

An Interplay Production environment supports a separate asset manager known as the 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.

Archive and Restore Services

Safe image identifies the archive database

Avid Interplay online database

Avid Interplay Archive database

Tree view

The following illustration shows an archive database displayed in Interplay Access.

The Interplay Production 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 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 with 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 Production 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 310.

MediaManager to Interplay Migration Tool

You can migrate much of your MediaManager environment metadata to an Interplay Production 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.

Interplay | Media Indexer

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

“Working with Interplay | Media Indexers” on page 242.

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 environment.

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 Interplay Production:

• Scalable notification mechanism

• Configuration tool for centralizing configuration tasks

• Diagnostic Logging application for consistent logging across all Interplay applications

• Health and Monitoring application

Interplay | Capture

Interplay Capture is intended for customers who require a management system for video capture. This application is a key part of the MultiRez workflow. Interplay Capture stores its schedule and other metadata in the Interplay database, which allows for easy access to the captured material within the Interplay work environment.

For information on Interplay Capture, see the Interplay Capture Administration Guide, the Interplay Capture User’s Guide, and the Interplay Capture Install Guide.

Access Control and Media Deletion Model

One of the most essential aspects of asset management is developing a system by which assets and their associated media files (for example, video and audio files) can be automatically and accurately protected from normal deletion. The administrator can specify the delete permissions that users and groups have on particular folders. Administrators and users can also use folder reservations to protect media files.

• A reserved folder protects any media files referred to by the assets in that folder.

• Folder reservations can have an expiration date so they don’t needlessly protect media files after they are inactive.

Interplay | Capture

• Administrators and file owners can override folder reservations.

For more information, see the Interplay Access User’s Guide and “Developing an Interplay

Delete Strategy” on page 41.

Interplay Application Icons

Interplay Access

Avid Instinct

Interplay Administrator

Interplay Assist

Avid Health Monitor

Avid Diagnostics

Service Configuration

Workgroup Properties

This section describes the Interplay Production icons.

Interplay | Access, Administrator, Instinct, and Assist

The Interplay Access icon has a purple background to signify that it is the main entry point that most people will use to work with the Interplay Production database. The Interplay Administrator has a similar look but with a key to denote the administrator. The Assist icon represents adding metadata to a locator track in Assist. The Avid Instinct icon is based on the iNEWS icon that has the same script “i” with a circle around the character.

Interplay Application Icons

Avid Service Framework

The Avid Service Framework icons use a tools-based hex nut design in all four icons.

Interplay | Production Services

The Interplay Production Services Engine icon represents a controller or Broker controlling the Production Services jobs. The image of the curved line and connecting dots is repeated in several of the icons. In the Stream Publish icon the image represents the fact that the service continually watches for files to publish. Delivery represents the files being delivered across the world to different Interplay environments. The Copy and Move icons also use the curved line to represent the fact that Copy works on one ISIS system (between workspaces) while Move works between two ISIS systems.

Interplay Application Icons

Interplay Delivery

Interplay Move

Interplay Restore

Interplay Production Services Engine

Interplay Transcode

Interplay Copy

Interplay STP Encode

Interplay Archive

Interplay FTP Clip List

Interplay FTP Media Browse

Interplay Production Services and Transfer Status

Interplay Transfer Configuration

Interplay Transfer

The Interplay Transcode and STP Encode icons use broken lines and arrows to indicate that the application processes the media. Interplay Archive and Restore use the metaphor of moving media to and from an archive.

Interplay | Transfer

The Interplay Transfer icons share a double arrow that represents transfers. In the case of FTP Clips List and FTP Media Browse, the arrows show that the application only transfers in one direction.

2 Setting Up a Folder Structure and a User

Database

This chapter describes the process of setting up a user database for your Interplay Production environment. This chapter includes the following topics:

• Permissions and Folder Structures

• Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay | Access

• Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups

• Assigning Database Access on a Project Basis

• Defining the Editor Database Settings

• Managing the Instinct/Assist User Settings

• Creating Folders for Capturing Media

Permissions and Folder Structures

The permissions that you assign to users in your workgroup define which folders users have access to. For example:

• At a small site, you might have a small group of editors and graphic artists that should always have Read/Write/Delete privileges on all files. You might also have a group of assistants that should have Read/Write privileges. In this case you can set up two user groups that have different sets of privileges. The access privileges you assign to those groups apply across the entire database. You can also change access for particular folders when necessary.

• At a larger site, you might have editors and graphic artists that work on different projects. Depending on the workload, they might be assigned to different projects at different times. In this case you might want to avoid confusion and not allow editors on one project to have Write/Delete privileges on projects they are not working on. This is easy to accomplish by creating project groups that have privileges that are inherited by any user that is added to the group. In this scenario, an editor can work on more than one project at the same time and they inherit permissions from both projects.

This chapter describes how to set up both scenarios.

Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay | Access

Catalogs folder used for common elements

Projects created within the Projects folder

Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay | Access

Every project that you work on must have a folder structure. You can create folders within the default folders or create new ones. You can set up a folder structure that complements your workflow and allows people in your Interplay workgroup to easily navigate to their working folders. The following illustration shows folders used by the DocWG database. The administrator uses the default Catalogs folder for common elements that might be used by different projects. A new folder was created in the Projects folder for a documentary named 01 Ice Island. For additional information, see

Environment” on page 49.

“Creating Avid Editing Projects in an Interplay

Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups

Assistants group has Read/Write permission on the entire database

Maximum Number of Characters for Clip Names, Folders, and Files

Avid recommends adhering to a best practice of a 255 character limit for clip names. While it is technically possible for clip names to be longer, folders and files are hard set at this 255 maximum and using it as a guideline may be easier to enforce over time across staff or teams.

Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups

If you work at a relatively small site where all of the editors have access to all of the current projects, then you can set user permissions by user groups. For example, in the following illustration, the Editors group and the Graphics Artists groups have Read/Write/Delete privileges for the entire database. The Assistants group has Read/Write access to the database. You set up the permissions for each group in the User Management View of the Interplay Administrator window.

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Using This Guide

Interplay Documentation

1 Interplay | Production Components

Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink

Interplay | Engine

Interplay | Access

Interplay | Administrator

Interplay Window

Interplay | Transfer

Avid Instinct

Interplay | Production Services Providers

Interplay | Assist

iNews and Avid Instinct

Archive and Restore Services

MediaManager Archive Solutions

MediaManager to Interplay Migration Tool

Interplay | Media Indexer

Service Framework Services

Interplay | Capture

Access Control and Media Deletion Model

Interplay Application Icons

Permissions and Folder Structures

Setting Up a Folder Structure in Interplay | Access

Basic Setup: Assigning Access to User Groups