Pinnacle Systems Interplay Assist - 2.2 User’s Guide

Avid® Interplay® Assist

User’s Guide

Version 2.2

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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 Assist User’s Guide • 0130-07606-03B • May 2010

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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

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

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 1 Getting Started with Avid Interplay Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Uses for Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Basic Interplay Assist Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Starting Interplay Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Disabling Desktop Compositing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Exiting Interplay Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using Interplay Assist Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Understanding Source Mode and Shotlist Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Understanding Undo and Redo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Undoing and Redoing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Changing the Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Printing the Logging Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 2 Preparing to Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Understanding Asset Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Navigating to Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Searching for Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Interplay Assist Search Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Navigating to a Folder That Contains a Selected Asset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Organizing Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Moving, Copying, and Duplicating Clips or Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Loading Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Updating the Application Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chapter 3 Customizing the Research Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Changing the Research Panel and Logging Panel Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using the Research Panel Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Asset Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Working with Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Modifying Values for a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Selecting Values for a Custom Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting Asset Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Displaying Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating New Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Enlarging or Reducing Column Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Working with Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Default Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Opening Multiple Tabs in the Research Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Changing Writable Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Viewing Thumbnail Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Chapter 4 Playing and Marking in the Video Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Video Monitor Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Changing the Video Monitor Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using Large Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using Medium Monitor Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using Small Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using Full-Screen Monitor Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Resizing Panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Selecting Functions from the Video Monitor Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Changing the Aspect Ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Playing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Playing Video Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the Position Bar and the Position Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the Transport Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Playing Footage with the J-K-L Keys (Three-Button Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Timecode to Find a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Displaying Footage at Full or Half Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enabling Two-Field Video Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Understanding Target Resolution and Working Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using the Zoom Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Marking and Cueing Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Marking IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Dragging IN Points and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Cueing the Footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Monitoring Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Working with the Local Audio Mixing Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Enabling Local Audio Mixing in the Interplay Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the Local Audio Mixing Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Creating Subclips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Using Match Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Chapter 5 Logging Events With Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Understanding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Adding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Setting Locator Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Locator Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Displaying Locator Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Adding Locator Text in Large Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Restricting Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Marking Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Creating Subclips of Restricted Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Using Match Frame to Apply a Restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Deleting Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Annotating Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Annotating an Existing Locator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing an Annotation from a Locator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Defining an Annotation Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Adding Your Own Annotation Icon Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Showing Other Users’ Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Displaying All Locators and Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Displaying Locators and Annotations for Particular Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Finding Items in the Logging Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Moving to Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Exporting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Chapter 6 Working with Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Understanding Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Entering Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Working with Metadata Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Displaying Metadata Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Adding a Default Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Adding a New Metadata Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Hiding a Metadata Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Finding Items in Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Chapter 7 Working with Shotlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Creating a New Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Saving Your Shotlist Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Opening an Existing Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Adding to a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adding a Source Clip to a Shotlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adding a Shotlist to a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Moving Through a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Finding Items in a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Changing a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Rearranging Shots in a Shotlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Removing a Shot from a Shotlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Changing IN Points and OUT Points in a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Changing Shotlist Starting Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Setting the Shotlist Start Timecode for Interplay Access and Interplay Assist 136

Entering Metadata for Shotlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Saving a Copy of a Shotlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Chapter 8 Sending Files Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Sending Material to Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Accessing Avid Unity Workspaces for Send to Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Working and Target Audio Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Setting the Working Resolution for Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Sending a Shotlist to Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Sending a Source to Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Sending Clips or Shotlists to the Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Selecting Interplay Media Services Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Sending a Source to the Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Managing the Archive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Appendix A Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Speeding Your Logging by Mapping Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Assigning Keys to Insert Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Assigning a Key Combination to an Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Removing a Key Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Editing Existing Inserted Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Viewing Predefined Key Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using a Mapped Key Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using Predefined Key Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid® Interplay® Assist application. You can use your application to log, annotate, and archive your work.

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

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

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

Courier Bold font

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

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.

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.

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

mouse action. For example, Ctrl+drag.

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 CD or DVD 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 available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit

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

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

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

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Portal

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

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

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

To open the Interplay User Information Center through a browser:

1. Type the following line in a web browser:

http://Interplay_Engine_name

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

http://docwg

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

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

t Select Help > Documentation Website on Server.

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Assist

Avid Interplay Assist provides you with tools to log and archive footage in several ways. You can log captured material and use locators to mark specific points of interest in footage. You can annotate the locators and note a usage restriction on a portion of the footage. You can also work with shotlists containing more than one clip, and you can archive the logs. Assist supports international character input. Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish are supported.

Video material comes from the Avid Interplay Engine and shared storage. Assist can search and browse the Interplay Engine, and it can access workspaces shared with Avid editing applications.

This chapter helps you get started with Avid Interplay Assist. See the following topics:

• Uses for Logging

• Basic Interplay Assist Workflow

• Starting Interplay Assist

• Disabling Desktop Compositing

• Exiting Interplay Assist

• Using Interplay Assist Help

• Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink

• Understanding Source Mode and Shotlist Mode

• Understanding Undo and Redo

• Changing the Font

• Printing the Logging Panel

• Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct

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Uses for Logging

Avid Interplay Assist offers a range of functions; one person can use it in different ways, or several different users can specialize in particular tasks. The most frequent uses are likely to be:

• Logging ingest or captured material, classifying assets based on where they came from, and entering basic information about the material. For example, a college student might be hired to work from a script and add a basic set of comments (metadata) to every clip that comes in.

• Adding locators to the previously identified clips. For example, you can mark all the significant plays in a championship sports event with locators and create subclips from the marked locations.

• Marking restrictions on particular clips or portions of clips. For example, you can mark beginning and ending restriction points to indicate the following: material that should not be used, material that can be used only after rights are available on a certain date, material that the organization will need to pay for upon use, material that has copyright requirements or other legal restrictions that limit its use, and so on.

• Providing a detailed description of the video. For example, a more experienced user of Assist might use the application to type a running commentary while watching the previously annotated video, associating words and sentences with specific timecodes and creating locators as a result.

• Searching for clips through the Interplay Engine and the archive that are relevant to a particular production, and annotating and creating new sequences. For example, a production assistant might search for master clips, find specific frames and annotate them for use in the production, find or create new sequences, annotate them with editorial notes, and so on.

• Reviewing clips, subclips, and sequences, marking up specific items with notes for the assistant or the editor, creating a rough cut for a final sequence, and sending the video to playback or to an Avid editing application. For example, the producer would review the material prepared by the production assistant, make changes, assemble the final sequence, mark up the production for last-minute changes, and send it to air.

• Archiving video at the end of the production workflow. For example, the archivist or librarian would review and update the metadata content for every clip, sequence, and shotlist going into the archive, assist others in finding material, define the location and hierarchy of stored video, and do other archival tasks.

Basic Interplay Assist Workflow

Basic use of Interplay Assist might include the following steps:

1. Start Assist.

2. Navigate to the material you want to log or search for clips sharing certain attributes.

3. Load a clip into the Video monitor.

4. Play the material and mark events with locators.

5. Add comments to the locators.

6. Add metadata to the clips.

7. Assemble the clips into a shotlist.

8. Add metadata to the shotlist.

9. Flag restricted material.

10. Save the shotlist.

11. Send the shotlist to play back on a playback device, if appropriate.

Basic Interplay Assist Workflow

Starting Interplay Assist

The Interplay Assist application runs as a client in an Avid Interplay system, which includes a shared storage systems, such as Avid Unity you use Assist, an administrator needs to complete the following requirements:

• Install Assist and other required Interplay applications on your workstation. For installation information, see the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

• (Option) If you are running Interplay Assist on Windows Vista or Windows 7, disable desktop compositing. See “Disabling Desktop Compositing” on page 21.

• Create an Interplay user account that you will use to log in to Assist. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

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MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISIS®. Before

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• If you need to send material to playback, you need to install Avid Unity MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISIS client software and create an Avid Unity user account with write privileges to a selected workspace. For more information, see “Accessing Avid Unity

Workspaces for Send to Playback” on page 141.

• Specify site settings in the Interplay Administrator. These settings are stored in the Avid Interplay database and are used by Assist when it is retrieving media objects managed by Avid Interplay. The settings include target and working resolutions, user permissions, and other workgroup settings. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

To start Interplay Assist:

1. Do one of the following:

t Double-click the icon on your desktop.

t Click the Start button, and select All Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Assist.

The Avid Interplay Assist Login window opens.

2. Type the name of your Avid Interplay Engine in the Asset Manager text box.

3. Type your name in the User Name text box.

4. Type your password in the Password text box.

Interplay Server passwords are case sensitive.

5. Click Login.

The Assist application opens, and you can work with assets in the Interplay database.

Disabling Desktop Compositing

To run Interplay Assist or Avid Instinct on Windows Vista or Windows 7, desktop compositing must be disabled. (Desktop compositing supports Aero desktop themes that include transparent window borders and other effects.)

Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct automatically disable desktop compositing when you launch the application and restore desktop compositing when you close the application. Alternatively, you can select a non-Aero desktop theme or disable desktop compositing through a system setting. These alternative methods prevent a brief flash from appearing when the application disables desktop compositing.

To disable desktop compositing:

1. Access the Control Panel.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click System and Security, then click System.

t In Classic view, double-click System.

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3. Click “Advanced system settings.”

4. In the System Properties window, click the Advanced tab.

5. Under the Performance area, click Settings.

6. Uncheck “Enable desktop composition.”

Exiting Interplay Assist

To exit Interplay Assist:

t Select Exit from the File menu or press Ctrl+Q.

If you exit Interplay Assist, and attempt to open it immediately afterwards, you might get a message that another instance of the application is already running or is still exiting. Wait approximately thirty seconds and start the application again.

Using Interplay Assist Help

Interplay Assist includes a Help system that contains the same information as this guide.

To view the Help:

1. Select Help > Avid Interplay Assist Help.

The Help opens.

2. For more information about using the Help, click the Contents tab and explore the Using Help topic.

Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink

MultiRez (a term derived from “multiple resolutions”) allows you to associate a clip with multiple media files of different resolutions. For example, you can associate the same audio clip with both low-resolution MP2 and uncompressed PCM, and the uncompressed files can be associated with more than one sample rate or bit depth. MultiRez works with both audio and video files.

When you work with MultiRez, 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 (working resolution) and create your final output in high-resolution media (target resolution).

Working with MultiRez and Dynamic Relink

Your Interplay administrator sets dynamic relink options in two locations in the Avid Interplay Administrator: in the Editing Settings tab of the Application Database Settings and in the Instinct/Assist User Settings. If dynamic relink is enabled, the following relink options must be changed from the default value (“not set”) before the functionality is applied to a site or a user:

Option Setting Description

Dynamic Relink (Editing Settings tab, Application Database Settings)

Send to playback (Editing Settings tab, Application Database Settings)

Video Settings (Instinct/Assist User Settings)

Audio Settings (Instinct/Assist User Settings)

Enabled or Disabled Enables or disables Dynamic Relink.

Target resolution, primary

Audio Target Resolution

Working Resolution Sets the user’s working video resolution.

Working Resolution Sets the user’s working audio resolution. If

Sets a resolution for output to a playback device. The default is DV 25 411.

Sets an audio resolution for output to a playback device. The default is PCM. Also sets the Sample Rate and Bit Depth of the audio for playback.

the working resolution is set to PCM, you can select a sample rate and a bit depth for audio clips.

When your Avid Interplay administrator enables dynamic relink, Assist or Instinct loads video and audio clips in your working resolution. When you send a sequence to playback, the media clips are automatically relinked to the target resolution. If dynamic relink is disabled, Assist or Instinct loads clips using the resolution the media clips are currently linked to, and Instinct does not relink media when you export it.

For more information on Avid Interplay settings, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide or the Interplay Help.

To check if dynamic relink is enabled:

1. Select Help > About Avid Interplay Assist or Help > About Avid Interplay Instinct.

2. Click the MultiRez tab, and check that the Dynamic Relink Enabled option is set to Yes.

MultiRez Enabled is also displayed and should be set to yes. MultiRez enabled means that the application is capable of using MultiRez and dynamic relink.

3. Click OK.

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Video monitor Source tabs Shotlist tabsSource button Shotlist button

Understanding Source Mode and Shotlist Mode

In Interplay Assist, you work in one of two modes: Source mode or Shotlist mode. You can add locators and metadata to either source clips or shotlists.

Source material comes from capture. To log material, you move through it, mark IN and OUT points, create subclips, and note significant events with locators, annotations, and metadata.

Shotlists are composed of source material. A shotlist can be an ordered set of clips that ends up as a rough cut for a sequence in an Avid editing application, for example. It can also be an unordered set of similar clips from which the best instance is chosen or which is archived as a group. Shotlists can be marked with locators and metadata.

Most of your work, after you find and navigate to clips and shotlists, is done in the Video monitor and the Logging panel. You click the Source button to enter Source mode, and the Shotlist button to enter Shotlist mode.Each mode includes a Metadata tab and a Locator tab, as shown in the following illustration.

You cannot modify a sequence (or shotlist) in Source mode and Shotlist mode at the same

time. For example, if you add a locator to a sequence in Source mode, then load the sequence in a Shotlist tab, you can no longer add locators to the sequence in Source mode. When you drag a sequence or shotlist from the Source monitor to a Shotlist tab, Assist saves the sequence automatically and then prevents further edits to the sequence in Source mode.

If you want to add locators to the sequence in Source mode, clear the shotlist tab by selecting File > New Shotlist, then View > Refresh All.

For more information, see the following topics:

• “Playing and Marking in the Video Monitor” on page 57

• “Logging Events With Locators” on page 95

• “Working with Shotlists” on page 125

• “Working with Metadata” on page 115

Understanding Undo and Redo

You can undo many of the actions you carry out in Interplay Assist. Undoing reverses the last operation you performed.

Understanding Undo and Redo

Also consider the following:

• If you are working on a source clip and then load a new clip, the Undo history starts over. You cannot go back to the first clip and undo your actions.

• If you are working on a shotlist and then create a new shotlist, the Undo history starts over. You cannot go back to the first shotlist and undo actions.

• The Undo history is separate for the Source tabs and the Shotlist tabs. If you are in the Source Locators tab, for example, and then click and work in the Shotlist locators tab, you can still return to the Source Locators tab and undo an action. You don’t lose your Source tab Undo history by working in a Shotlist tab; the reverse is also true.

You can redo an action.

Undoing and Redoing

To undo an action:

t Do one of the following:

- Select Edit > Undo.

- Press Ctrl+Z.

Certain operations cannot be undone. These are noted in the appropriate topics.

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To redo an action:

t Do one of the following:

- Select Edit > Redo.

- Press Ctrl+Y.

Changing the Font

You can change the default fonts and font sizes for the following areas of the Interplay Assist interface using the Fonts menu options:

• Locator and metadata text

• Directory panel

• Research panel

Font changes are saved as user settings and do not affect other Assist systems.

To change the font in Assist:

1. Do one of the following:

t Select Preferences > Fonts > [font option].

t In any panel, right-click and select Set [font option] font.

The Select [font option] font dialog box opens. The dialog box allows you to select and preview options other than Font and Size, but those options do not take effect in the application; you can change only Font and Size. You must have locators displaying in a Locators tab if you want to change the locator text font.

2. Select a font and a size, and then click OK.

Printing the Logging Panel

The font in the Interface area you selected changes.

To restore the default fonts in the Assist interface:

t Select Preferences > Fonts > Reset Fonts to Default.

Printing the Logging Panel

You can print the currently open tab in the Logging panel. You can select a single locator or clip for printing or you can print the entire tab. You can print the contents of any of the tabs.

The Logging panel must be visible to print it. If you are in Large Monitor mode and are

viewing the Video monitor, you need to click the Display button to return to the panels view. See “Using Large Monitor Mode” on page 61.

To print the contents of a tab:

1. (Option) Select File > Page Setup, select options in the Page Setup dialog box, and click OK.

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2. Do one of the following:

t Select File > Print [printable item] Preview, then preview the item and click Print.

t Select File > Print [printable item].

t Right-click in a locator or a clip and select Print. (Do not right-click in the header

area.)

A standard Print dialog box opens.

3. Select one of the following:

t All: the entire tab prints.

t Selection: the currently selected locator or clip prints.

t Pages: specify which pages you want to print. In general, it is more effective to

select All or Selection.

4. Select other options and then click Print.

Headframes that are not visible on the screen might not be fully loaded when you decide to

print. The print function waits for the headframes to load; after a certain period of time, you might see a message box asking you if you want to wait longer.

The contents of the tab print. The header information from the tab, such as user name, working resolution, and so on, does not print. A default header prints, however, containing the name of the clip or shotlist, the name of the tab, and the date and time. If you print more than one page, the pages break at locator or metadata boundaries.

5. (Option) If the Logging panel is too wide and the right-hand edges of the locators print onto a second page, do one of the following and then repeat the printing procedure:

t In the Print dialog box, click Preferences, select Landscape, and then click OK.

t Click the right-hand edge of the application and drag it to the left to resize

application to a more narrow width.

Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct

An Interplay administrator has the option of letting Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct automatically time out after a specified period of inactivity. This feature helps in license management, because it enables an unused license to be freed up without the administrator manually finding and closing inactive applications on user desktops.

If a timeout period is set, and the application does not detect any activity during that period, the application displays a message that asks if you want to quit. Click Yes to quit, or click No to keep the application open. If you do not click Yes or No, the application quits in twenty seconds.

The default setting is one hour. This setting applies to the entire database.

To set the timeout period:

1. Start Interplay Administrator and log on to the database for which you want to set the automatic timeout.

2. In the Application Settings section of the Interplay Administrator, click the Application Database Settings icon.

3. Click the Application Defaults tab.

4. Select the database (AvidWG).

5. In the Assist/Instinct - Defaults section, enter a value in hours for the Automatic Timeout option. Decimal values are allowed. For example, for a timeout period of one and a half hours, enter:

1.5

If you do not want a timeout period, enter 0 (zero).

6. Click Apply.

The timeout period begins the next time you launch the application.

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