Pinnacle Systems Interplay Capture - 1.0 User’s Guide

Avid® Interplay® Capture

User’s Guide

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Avid® Interplay® Capture User’s Guide • 0130-03248-01 Rev A • Created 11/5/09 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 1 Introduction to Avid Interplay Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Architecture and Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Starting the Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Support Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Chapter 2 Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Working with Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Configuring Schedule Panel Display Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Moving Recordings on the Schedule Panel Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting the View Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Recording Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Status Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Schedule Item Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Channel Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Channel Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Health Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Router Crosspoints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Chapter 3 Capture Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Starting the Capture Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Customizing the Capture Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Chapter 4 Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Recordings and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Scheduled Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Status, Health, and Transport Indicators for Recordings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using a Favorite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Moving Recordings on the Schedule Panel Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Date, Duration, and Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Editing Schedule or Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Cloning a Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Deleting a Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Transfer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Manual Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Recurring Recordings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Multi-Resolution Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Multi-cam Recordings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Instant Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Chapter 5 Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Device Clip Updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Master Clip Start and End Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Clip Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Clip Retransfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Appendix A Button and Tool Quick Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Appendix B Icon Quick Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid Interplay Capture. Avid Interplay Capture is a newsroom ingest tool that enables automated recordings. It is comprised of individual applications, which allow you to schedule and monitor recordings, and to capture video from a video feed or VTR. 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.

This guide contains all the task-oriented instructions, conceptual information, and reference material you need to use your Avid Interplay Capture software.

This guide is intended for all users, from beginning to advanced.

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The following provides an overview of the Avid Interplay Capture system, its workflow, and user interface.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Overview

- Architecture and Workflow

- Features

• Starting the Software

• The User Interface

• Support Dialog Box

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Overview

Avid Interplay Capture is a newsroom ingest tool that enables automated recordings. It is comprised of individual applications, which allow you to schedule and monitor recordings, and to capture video from a video feed or VTR. 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.

Avid Interplay Capture works with Avid Service Framework applications and services to ensure you always have the best system performance. These applications and services provide health monitoring, diagnostics, and discovery so users and system administrators can monitor the system and sub-system health, as well as the health of connected devices and channels.

As an option, Capture can use Avid Router Control to dynamically route media from sources to destinations. Sources are routed to particular destinations, which may be devices configured to be controlled by Capture, such as Avid AirSpeed, Avid Multi Stream, Avid Interplay Low-res encoders or VTR tape decks.

Architecture and Workflow

The Avid Interplay Capture broadcast news workflow starts with the ability to control the capture of ingest feeds from any source, such as satellite downlinks, microwave relays, field tapes, and studio input. Capture also provides user rights management for ingest. The Capture system includes channel pools and dynamic channel allocation, which helps automate some resource management tasks, and adds another layer of fault tolerance. It has the ability to create pools of channels for specific assignment, such as a channel pool used only for “sports”. A pool could also be specified by format or resolution, such as “720p”. Since Capture has redundant services, mirrored channels, and channel failover, the risk for system failure is minimized.

Capture interfaces with a wide range of industry standard components, allowing for easy, simultaneous control of routers, VTRs and video servers. The Schedule application provides users a way to schedule recordings in advance, on a single day or on recurring days. Users can also perform instant recordings by ensuring the synchronous start of multiple ingest devices—for late-breaking news events. In the Interplay environment, each Capture Server can control up to one hundred simultaneous encoding streams—that is, one hundred channels.

Overview

Features

The Avid Interplay Capture system provides the features described in the following table:

Feature Description

Shared Interplay Database Capture stores a complete copy of its database, settings, and user

permissions in the Interplay database.

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Feature (Continued) Description (Continued)

Interplay Authentication All Interplay users can log into Capture because Capture uses Interplay

authentication methods. Capture user permissions, such as whether or not a user can modify the recording schedule, are set in Interplay.

Interplay Clip Capture creates its own Interplay clip that groups all resolutions, mirrors,

and recovered clips into one master clip that represents a recording as a whole.

Interplay Master Clip Metadata Updates

Capture can update the metadata in the Interplay master clip. If a change is made to a recording’s name in Capture, the updated name is reflected in the master clip.

Transfer Status Capture reports the transfer status of clips from the ingest device to the

shared storage. Capture reports the transfer status per clip, and as a summary status for all clips, in a recording on the timeline.

Interplay Check-in Status Capture reports the Interplay check-in status of clips from the ingest device

to Interplay. It reports the check-in status per clip and as a summary status for all clips in a recording on the timeline.

Clip Retransfers A user can initiate a retransfer of clips back to Shared Storage (ISIS) and

Interplay from the ingest device.

Automated Clip Deletion Capture can delete clips and media off Interplay and Shared storage (ISIS)

after a set amount of time. Reserved media does not get deleted.

Multi-resolution Recordings multi-resolution recordings can be enabled, per recording, for proxy editing

workflows. This results in two clips of different resolutions associated with the same master clip in Interplay.

Mirrored Recordings Mirroring can be enabled, per recording, for hot channel redundancy. This

results in two clips of the same resolution associated with the same master clip in Interplay.

Multi-Source Recordings Multi-source, sometimes referred to as Multi-cam, can be enabled, per

recording, for managing multiple sources, which share the same scheduled start and end times, in the same recording. This results in separate master clips for each source. Later, the editor can link the source master clips together to continue a multi-cam workflow.

Recurring Recordings Recordings can be set to recur on a scheduled interval of daily, weekly or

monthly.

Segmented Recordings Recordings can be set to segment at a user defined interval. For instance, a

24 hour recording could be segmented into 1 hour master clips.

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Feature (Continued) Description (Continued)

Recording Templates Templates can be created from recordings that contain some, or all, required

metadata. These templates can be used when making future recordings to populate the saved set of recording metadata.

Recording Favorites Favorites are a per user preference, which can be saved into favorites.

Instant Recordings Favorites can be setup as instant recordings. Instant recordings begin

recording immediately if there is an available channel for the recording.

Dual Monitor support User preferences set for Capture can remember multiple monitor screen

layouts.

Time Boundaries The Schedule panel in Capture allows scheduling and viewing recordings

over midnight and other common time boundaries.

Quick Recording Turnaround Capture recordings can be scheduled as near in the future as the user

requests. No artificial two minute block for schedule recordings.

Workspace Steering Users can specify, per recording and per channel, the workspace to which

media is transferred. This is dynamically set from Capture and does not require pre setting destination templates on the ingest device.

Cloned Recordings Recordings can be cloned, or copied. When cloning a recording, all metadata

for the recording is duplicated to another recording. This enables a user to quickly setup a recording, when one already exists, which contains all metadata they need.

Interplay Capture Monitor Interplay Capture Monitor is an administrative application for monitoring all

channels and crosspoints configured in the Capture and Router Control environment.

Recording Health Capture reports problems to users by recording health. Recording health is

indicated to the user by displaying a warning or critical icon. Examples of recording health include invalid metadata or over allocation of channels.

Channel Pool Health Capture reports problems with channels through channel pool health.

Channel pool health is indicated to the user by displaying a warning or critical icon. Examples of channel pool health include channel offline, ingest device disk space low, or missing router destination.

Shared Storage Health Capture reports problems with shared storage workspaces through shared

storage health. Health is indicated by a warning or critical icon. Shared storage health indicates when disk space on workspaces is low.

System Health Capture reports problems with the overall system through system health.

System health is indicated by a warning or critical icon. System health includes a summary of all other health as well as additional system functions like data store and record controller connectivity.

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Feature (Continued) Description (Continued)

System Diagnostics Capture uses the Avid Service Framework Diagnostic application to store all

logs.These granular logs are extremely useful when troubleshooting any issues.

Recording Clip History Each Capture recording keeps a history of all of the clips it checked into

Interplay.

Channel Pools Capture groups channels together in channel pools. When it starts, a

recording automatically selects a healthy channel from the pool.

Channel Pool Conflict Resolution If a channel failure were to occur during a recording, an available healthy

channel from the pool is started and continues the recording.

VTR Destination Capture can be configured to have a VTR as a destination. This is designed

to be a backup ingest option.

Capture Service Redundancy The Capture service, comprised of the data store and record controller, uses

the Avid Service Framework redundancy. Avid supports up to two Capture services in the Interplay workgroup.

Shared Storage Service Redundancy

Route Engine Service Redundancy

Capture Web Service The Remote API allows third party applications to create, modify, and delete

The Shared Storage service uses the Avid Service Framework redundancy. framework. Avid supports up to two Shared Storage services in the Interplay workgroup.

The Route Engine service uses the Avid Service Framework redundancy. Avid supports up to two Route Engine services in the Interplay workgroup.

recordings. As well receive notifications of updates to recordings.

Starting the Software

All Interplay users can log into Capture because Capture uses Interplay authentication methods. Capture user permissions are set in Interplay. Avid Interplay Capture is password protected and easy to start.

To start Avid Interplay Capture:

1. Do one of the following:

t If you have created a desktop shortcut, Double click the icon, for the application

you want to start.

t Click the Start button and depending on the application you need, select one of the

following:

The Avid Interplay Capture log in window opens.

The User Interface

Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Capture > Avid Interplay Capture

Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Capture > Avid Interplay Capture Monitor

2. Enter the required information.

The Asset Manager field is automatically populated with the Interplay Server and Interplay

database when the Capture system is selected.

3. Click the Login button.

The User Interface

Avid Interplay Capture contains panels, a menu bar, and status bar. Capture contains panels, menus, and convenient controls some of which are shown in the following example.

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The following shows an example of the Avid Capture Monitor application graphical user interface.

The User Interface

Panels

Panels are components that appear in the application and provide information in various ways as well as tools and controls, which help you use the panels effectively. The Capture window contains panels that you can dock, undock, move, resize, or even hide from view. You can autohide the panels on a side of the window, where they can appear if you move the mouse pointer that area. Each panel is easily identified by the name appearing in its title bar as shown in the following Alerts panel example.

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Another panel available in the Avid Capture Schedule application is the Interplay directory panel, shown in the following illustration.

For more information about the panels, including the Interplay directory panel, see “Panels”

on page 25.

Menu Bar

Each Capture application has a menu bar that contains some or all of the following menus:

•File

•View

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• Tools

•Help

The following table describes the menus, options and shortcut keys for the Avid Interplay Capture Schedule application.

Schedule Application Menu Submenu Shortcut Keys Description

File New Ctrl + N Opens the Schedule Item Detail panel.

New Default Ctrl + Shift + N Opens the Schedule Item Detail panel but

skips the template chooser dialog box (Same as selecting File > New and pressing the Skip button on the template chooser dialog box.) The Schedule Item Detail panel opens with default values in some of the fields.

Exit Closes the Capture application.

Save Ctrl + S Saves changes to the currently selected

recording.

Save as Template Saves this recording as a template to use for

other recordings.

View Alerts Ctrl + Shift + A Displays the Alerts panel.

Calendar Ctrl + Shift + D Displays the Calendar panel.

Clock Ctrl + Shift + K Displays the Clock panel.

Favorites Ctrl + Shift + F Displays the Favorites panel.

Interplay Ctrl + Shift + I Displays the Interplay directory panel.

Schedule Ctrl + Shift + T Displays the Schedule timeline panel.

Sources Ctrl + Shift + R Displays the Sources panel.

Channel Pools Ctrl + Shift + P Displays the Channel Pools panel.

Control Ctrl + Shift + C Displays the Control panel.

Status Bar Displays the Status Bar.

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Schedule Application Menu

Tools Options Opens the Options dialog box. These

Help Help Displays the help system.

Submenu (Continued) Shortcut Keys Description (Continued)

options apply to the current user only. They do not affect other users or the behavior of the system.

Diagnostics Displays the Diagnostics panel.

Support Opens the Support dialog box.

About Display information about Avid Capture.

The following table describes the menus and options for the Avid Interplay Capture Monitor application.

Monitor Application Menu Submenu Description

File Exit Closes the Capture application.

View Alerts Displays the Alerts panel.

Router Crosspoints Displays the Router Crosspoints panel.

Status Bar

The Status bar shows connectivity and health of the Capture system and subsystems, including, in the following graphic from left to right, workspace health, record controller connectivity, data store connectivity, and overall system health.

Channels Displays the Channels Panel.

Help Help Displays the help system.

Support Opens the Support dialog box.

About Display information about Avid Capture.

Diagnostics Displays the Diagnostics panel.

Support Dialog Box

The following table describes the possible icons that appear on the Status bar.

Health Status Icon Description

Normal, good health status

Unknown

Warning health status

Critical, failure health status

Record Controller not connected

Data store not connected

Whether or not the Status bar appears in the user interface is customizable.

To show or hide the display of the status bar:

1. Select View > Status Bar.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select the Status Bar check box to display the status bar in the Capture window.

t Deselect the Status Bar check box to hide the status bar in the Capture window.

Support Dialog Box

Capture provides a Support dialog box for users to log support information—from the application’s diagnostic logs—about any issues encountered, which might require contacting Avid Customer Support.

To log support information:

1. Select Help > Support.

2. Enter a description of the issue in the Support dialog box.

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3. Click the Save button. The Save support zip dialog box opens.

4. Select the name and location where you want the zipped file to be saved.

5. Click the Save button.

Support Dialog Box

The system saves your comments inside a zipped file that also contains other vital information, such as system settings and software versions, which enable support personnel to troubleshoot the issue. This file can then be e-mailed to Avid Technical Support.

6. E-mail the aforementioned zipped file to Avid Technical Support.

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The Avid Interplay Capture interface is made up of panels, which provide information in various ways.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Working with Panels

• Alerts

• Calendar

• Clock

• Favorites

• Interplay

• Schedule

• Schedule Item Detail

• Sources

• Channel Pools

• Control

• Diagnostics

• Channel Monitor

• Router Crosspoints

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Working with Panels

The Avid Interplay Capture contains numerous panels that a user can dock, undock, move, resize, or even hide from view in the main window. These panels can be arranged so that they are tiled within available screen space, layered so that only one is visible and the rest are accessible via tabs, or a combination. The following graphic shows a combination of tiled and layered panels—as indicated by the tabs at the bottom—with the Clock, Control, and Interplay panels on top.

The layering option is helpful in conserving screen space. Panels can be layered on either the left or right side or when undocked, a panel can be moved outside of the application’s main window.

Each panel is easily identified by a title bar, which bears its name.

Working with Panels

When a user tabs or clicks in the interplay field of a recording, the interplay panel is brought

to focus.

The following table lists the different panels in Avid Interplay Capture and in which application they are available.

Panel Name Application

Alerts panel Capture, Monitor

Calendar panel Capture

Clock panel Capture

Favorites panel Capture

Interplay panel Capture

Schedule panel Capture

Schedule Item Detail panel Capture

Sources panel Capture

Channel Pools panel Capture

Control panel Capture

VTR Session panel Capture

VTR Sources panel Capture

Ingest Channel Status panel Monitor

Router Crosspoints panel Monitor

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Panels are docked by default.

If you have some layered panels, dragging the title bar of the one on top moves all of the layered panels together. To move one panel individually from the layered ones, you must drag it by its tab. The tabs appear below the layered panels.

To move an individual layered panel:

1. Click the tab belonging to the panel.

2. Drag the panel to the new location.

To undock or float a panel, do one of the following:

t Click the Toggle floating button located on the panel’s title bar, next to the Pin button.

t Double-click the panel’s title bar.

t Click on the panel’s title bar and drag it from its docked location.

When a panel is undocked or floating it contains all of the menus it would have if it were in the docked position.

To redock a panel, do one of the following:

t Click the Toggle floating button located on the panel’s title bar, next to the Pin button. It

will redock in its previously docked location.

t Double-click the panel’s title bar. It will redock in its previously docked location.

t Click on the panel’s title bar, which when selected, turns from gray to blue when it is

selected, and drag it to an alternative docking location—until the title bar touches the border of the area to which you want it docked.

To auto-hide a panel:

t Click the Toggle auto-hide button located on the panel’s title bar, between the Restore

and Close buttons.

This auto-hides the panel as a tab on a side of the window. The auto-hidden panel's tab can be at the top, bottom, right or left side. It's usually a side adjacent to the unpinned panel. Moving the mouse pointer over the panel’s tab will display the panel, but the panel will be hidden again once the mouse pointer is moved off the panel unless you’ve clicked in the panel, giving it keyboard focus, in which case it stays up until you either click outside the active auto-hide window, or click the title bar button “Hide active auto-hide window.”

To un-hide a panel:

1. Mouse over the hidden panel’s tab so that the panel becomes visible.

2. Click the Toggle auto-hide button on the visible panel. This will pin the panel in place so that it remains visible in the application’s window.

The icon on the Pin button turns sideways depending on whether a panel is pinned or

Auto-hidden. An Auto-hide panel might not be hidden.

To layer panels:

1. Click the panel’s title bar and drag it to the top left (or right) corner of another panel.

2. Repeat the process with each panel. Capture will automatically layer the panels and provide tabs for each panel at the bottom of the screen. A user can then click any tab to bring that panel to the top.

When an alert occurs in Capture, the Alerts panel becomes visible. For instance, if the Alerts

panel is hidden, Capture un-hides it. If the alerts panel is layered with other panels and is not in front, Capture brings the Alerts tab to the front. If you are working on one of the other panels layered in the same pane with the Alerts panel, you will lose focus on that panel when the Alerts panel comes to the front.

Alerts

To close a panel:

t Click the Close button on the title bar of the panel you want to hide.

To view a hidden panel:

t Select View and then the name of the panel from the submenu.

To resize a docked panel:

1. Position your mouse pointer between two panels, on the edge of a panel. The pointer will change to a resize indicator.

2. Click and drag to the new size.

If panels are docked, this action resizes all of the panels.

The Alerts panel is available in both the Capture Schedule and Capture Monitoring applications and provides a list of recent alerts. The panel contains the following information about the alerts:

• Alert type

• Time of alert

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• Title (short summary of the alert)

• Text (optional-Alert information displayed in the lower portion of the panel.)

The types of alerts include:

Alert Status Icon Description

Critical

Warni ng

Information

Succeeded

The succeeded alert with its check mark icon will only appear as a follow-up to previously reported warnings and critical alerts.

Each alert appears along with a timestamp for when the alert was issued.

If the summary shown in the alert’s title column extends beyond the size of the panel, resize the panel or mouse over the alert to view the entire title in a tooltip. A user can also select any alert and view additional details as well as clear alerts from the list.

To view details, do one of the following:

t Select an alert and view the details below the list area.

t Right-click on an alert to view details specific to that alert in a Diagnostics dialog box.

To clear alerts:

t Right-click and select Clear Alerts.

Calendar

The Calendar panel displays the current month based on the Capture Workstation’s date. It can display a one or two-month view. The dates displayed in the past have a darker background color than that of dates in the future.

Calendar

The health of the schedule is also displayed in the calendar. Any problems with the schedule are indicated in the calendar, on the date of the issue, with a yellow or red highlight. For instance, if any of the channels in a channel pool are almost full or full you will see a warning in the date on the calendar. If a channel pool is over allocated, you will see a critical problem displayed in red in the date on the calendar. If you see a problem indicated on a day in the calendar, you can click on the day to display the day in the Schedule panel timeline, which will provide more detail about the issue.

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Clock

Clicking on a date in the calendar moves the focus on the Schedule panel to that particular date. If the calendar is not visible, you can access it by selecting it from the View menu or by clicking the calendar icon on the Schedule panel.

To view a different month, do one of the following:

t Click the left arrow to view a previous month.

t Click the right arrow to view a subsequent month.

The Clock panel displays the current time based on the Capture Workstation’s time.

The Clock can be set to a 12- or 24-hour format. The font, background, and foreground colors are also configurable.

To configure the clock:

1. Select Tools > Options.

The Options dialog box opens.

Favorites

2. In the tree view, select Clock.

3. Set the clock’s text color and background color.

4. Set the clock to either a 12- or 24-hour format.

5. Set the font type, size, and whether you want to add bold or italics to your choice.

A sample of your settings is provided as a preview

6. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to apply the changes and keep the Options dialog box open.

t Click OK to apply the changes and close the Options dialog box.

Favorites

The Favorites panel is can be used when you create recordings. A favorite contains a recording template, which allows you to easily create a new recording.

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You must already have a template from which to create a favorite.

To create a recording template:

1. Do one of the following:

t Right-click the recording, on the Timeline, from which you want to create a

template, and select the Save As Template option.

t From the File Menu select the Save as Template option.

The Save As dialog box opens.

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2. From the directory list, select a folder in which to save the new template.

3. Enter a name for the template.

4. Click the Save button.

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To add a new favorite:

1. Right-click on the Favorites panel.

2. Click Add Favorite.

The Choose Template dialog box opens.

3. From the directory list, select a folder from which to choose a template.

4. Select a template to add to your Favorites panel.

5. Click the Open button.

The template now displays on the Favorites panel.

To customize a favorite:

1. Right-click on a favorite in the Favorites panel.

The Favorite dialog box opens.

2. (Optional) Change the display name.

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3. (Optional) Change the Action of this favorite.

4. (Optional) Create a custom icon to represent this favorite.

5. Click the OK button when you are finished.

Interplay

This panel allows you, in Interplay, to choose any folder in the Projects folder in which to save the clip when the recording is complete. You can do this by dragging the folder from the Interplay panel to the Folder field in the recording detail or you can select the folder in the Interplay panel or press the

Alt + Return

keys on the keyboard.

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The Interplay panel displays the list of directories in a tree-style format.

To expand or collapse the folder:

t Click the Expand icon to expand the folder.

t Click the Collapse icon to collapse the folder

Schedule

The Schedule panel is a visual display of feed and VTR recordings by date and time as configured on the system.

By default the Schedule view displays a vertical timeline. However, a horizontal timeline can be displayed if you prefer. A yellow line is shown to indicate the current time. Recordings show up on the timeline in colored boxes with colors and icons indicating the status of the recording. For more information see, “Transport Icons” on page 97and

“Recording Health Status Icons” on page 95.

Schedule

Configuring Schedule Panel Display Characteristics

The Schedule panel font characteristics can be configured.

To configure Schedule panel display characteristics:

1. Select Options from the tools menu.

The Options dialog box appears.

2. Select Schedule in the Options tree-style directory.

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3. Select the font for the Schedule items.

4. Select the font characteristics, size, bold, italic.

5. Set the number of characters to display in a vertical timeline display.

6. Set the number of lines to display in a horizontal timeline display.

7. Click the Apply button.

Click the Restore Defaults button to restore the default settings.

Moving Recordings on the Schedule Panel Timeline

Recordings can be moved from one spot to another on the timeline by dragging them to a new location on the timeline. Dragging one recording to an earlier or later time position on the Schedule panel timeline, snaps the recording to 5 minute increments. Pressing and holding the Ctrl key while performing this action snaps the recording to 1 minute increments.

When selecting multiple recordings (by pressing the Shift key and clicking to select each recording), continue to press the Shift key while dragging the recordings to the new location on the Schedule timeline. The selected recordings will snap to 5 minute increments. Switching from pressing the Shift key to pressing the Ctrl key (after starting to drag the recordings) changes the snapping increment from 5 minutes to 1 minute.

Buttons

Schedule

Releasing the Shift or Ctrl keys while dragging multiple recordings deselects everything except the last recording selected.

Buttons on the Schedule timeline include the following:

Button Icon Name of Button Description

Earlier (Up Arrow) This button appears in the default Horizontal view of the

Timeline. It steps to earlier times in the Schedule timeline. When used in combination with the Ctrl key on the keyboard this button sends a page up command. Scrolling with this button can scroll the yellow current time indicator out of view.

Later (Down Arrow) This button appears in the default Horizontal view of the

Timeline. It steps to later times in the Schedule timeline. When used in combination with the Ctrl key on the keyboard this button sends a page down command. Scrolling with this button can scroll the yellow current time indicator out of view.

Earlier (Left Arrow) This button appears in the default vertical view of the

Timeline. It steps to later times in the Schedule timeline. When used in combination with the Ctrl key on the keyboard this button sends a page left command. Scrolling with this button can scroll the yellow current time indicator out of view

Later (Right Arrow) This button appears in the default vertical view of the

Timeline. It steps to later times in the Schedule timeline. When used in combination with the Ctrl key on the keyboard this button sends a page right command. Scrolling with this button can scroll the yellow current time indicator out of view.

Now This button is used to bring the yellow current time

indicator into view one time.

Show Calendar Clicking this button Shows the calendar if it was not

displayed and hides it if it was previously showing.

Follow Clock Clicking this button keeps the yellow current time

indicator visible on the Schedule panel. It follows the current now time.

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Button Icon Name of Button Description

Stop following clock Clicking this button allows the yellow current now time

indicator to scroll out of view and no longer be visible on the Schedule panel. It stops following the current now time.

Zoom In Clicking this button zooms to a smaller time frame on the

Schedule panel. The default is 5 minutes, which is the smallest range (with the greatest range being 7 days). Pressing the Control key while pressing the Zoom In button changes to the highest zoom setting (30 minutes). This view range can also be set using the View Range list. For information about using the View Range list, see

“Setting the View Range” on page 42.

Zoom Out Clicking this button zooms out to a greater time frame on

the Schedule panel. The default is 5 minutes, which is the smallest view range (with the greatest range being 7 days). Pressing the Control key while pressing the Zoom Out button changes to the lowest zoom setting (7 days). This view range can also be set using the View Range list. For information about using the View Range list, see “Setting

the View Range” on page 42.

Setting the View Range

You can select the time range which appears in the Schedule panel. The Schedule panel displays a 5 minute range by default but you can display by hours or even up to a 7 day range.

Horizontal Timeline Clicking this button changes the timeline in the Schedule

panel to a vertical view.

Vertical Timeline Clicking this button changes the timeline in the Schedule

panel to a horizontal view.

To set the view range:

1. Click the down-arrow.

2. Select the desired time range to display on the Timeline.

Recording Information

You can view some information associated with a recording in the recording box, which appears on the Schedule panel.

Schedule

To view recording information:

t Scroll to the recording box on the Schedule panel.

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Status Icons

Status icons also appear on the timeline so the user can tell at a glance the transport, transfer, and health status of recordings as well as if the item has been checked in to Interplay or not. For more information see, “Transport Icons” on page 97, “Transfer Status Icons” on page 96, and “Recording Health Status Icons” on page 95. The following table shows the status icons you might see.

The following is an example of how some of these icons may appear in the Schedule panel timeline. In the colored recording boxes the transport status is displayed in the upper left corner of the box, while the transfer status appears on the upper right.

When automated routing is enabled, the name of the recording, its duration, channel pool information and sources associated with the recording are displayed on the recording box in the Schedule panel. Double-clicking on the recording box displays the Schedule Item detail pane. This pane shows even more information about the recording.

Schedule Item Detail

For more information about health status icons, see“Health Status Icons” on page 53.

Schedule Item Detail

The Schedule Item Detail panel contains the General tab, which is used for scheduling a recording or to investigate health issues, and the Clips tab, which shows all the clips associated with the recording and their transport and transfer states. For instance, a history of a recordings segmentation. You can also initiate a retransfer from the Clips tab.

For more information scheduling items see, “Scheduled Recordings” on page 65. For more information about initiating a retransfer see, “Clip Retransfer” on page 87.

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The Schedule Item Detail panel has some options you can configure to adapt the panel more to your personal preferences. For more information about customizing this panel, see

“Customizing the Capture Application” on page 59.

To view the Schedule Item Detail Panel:

1. Do one of the following:

t Press

Ctrl + N

t Double-click on the Schedule panel at the date and time you want the recording to

occur.

t Double-click anywhere on the Schedule panel and later add the date and time you

want the recording to occur.

t Click a favorite on the Favorites panel.

t Double-click a source on the Sources panel

The Choose Template dialog box opens. For more information, see “Favorites” on page

33.

2. Do one of the following:

t Choose a template to use for a recording and click the Open button.

t Choose to skip selecting a Template and click the Skip button.

The Schedule Item Detail panel opens.

Sources

When your Capture system has automated routing enabled, the Sources panel provides a list of all of the feed sources available from which to record. When you schedule a recording, one way to select a source for it is to select a source in the Source panel, and drag it to your recording in the Schedule Item detail panel.

To add a source from the list:

1. Open the Sources panel

Sources

You are now ready to set up a recording using the Schedule Item detail panel. For more information see “Recordings and Formats” on page 64.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click the Sources text field to display a list from which to select a source.

t Click the Add sources button, located next to the sources text field, to display a list

from which to select a source.

t Click the Add sources button located next to the sources text field to display a list of

sources. Then, press the Shift key and click to select all sources from the list or the Ctrl key and click to select only some of the sources from the list.

t Click Insert in the Sources field.

t Double-click a source from the Sources panel.

The source text field is populated.

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To remove a source, select the source and press the Delete selected sources button located

next to the sources text field or the Delete key on the keyboard.

Channel Pools

Channel pools are groups of interchangeable channels, which allow you to create a recording without specifying a channel. The system then dynamically allocates channels from the selected pools for a recording, choosing healthy channels over unhealthy ones. When automated routing is enabled, the selected source is automatically routed to the allocated channel.

To view Channel Pools:

1. Open the Channel Pools panel.

Control

The Control panel allows you to manually control recordings. You can manually cue, start, and stop a recording as well as extend a timeout using the Control panel.

At the top of the Control panel there is a Transport Control bar containing buttons with which you can manually control a recording.

The panel displays information about the channel pools, such as the names of channel pools, administrative notes about each pool in the panel, and the health of each channel pool.

Control Bar Button Button Description

Cue button - Pressing this button manually cues the selected recording. If the selected recording has already finished, a clone is created and cued.

Cue button - When this button is light yellow it means that Capture is trying or has already cued the channels for the recording.

Start Recording button - Pressing this button manually starts the selected recording. If the selected recording has already finished, a clone is created and started.

Start Recording button - When this button is red it means capture is trying or has already started the recording.

End Recording button - Pressing this button stops the recording and releases its channels.

End Recording button - When this button is green it means a recording has finished.

Control

To manually cue a recording using the Control panel:

1. Do one of the following:

t From the Schedule Item detail panel, press the Cue or Start Recording button.

t From the Control panel, press the Cue or Start Recording button on a past

recording. A new recording is created and appears in the Control panel.

t Right-click a recording on the Schedule panel and select the Control menu option.

The recording now appears in the Control pane. Click the Cue button on the Control bar to manually cue the recording.

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If the cued time now is earlier than the original start time for this recording, the following Confirm Schedule Change dialog box opens. Click the Yes button to cue the recording now and start it only manually.

The recording is now cued and the Timeout begins counting down. At the end of this timer, the recording is stopped and the channel is released unless the user starts the recording.

To manually stop a recording using the Control panel:

1. Select an active recording in the Control Panel.

2. Click the Stop Recording button on the Control bar.

Timeout

Control

The recording ends and the timeout begins counting down. At the end of the countdown, the recording is removed from the panel.

When a recording is manually cued, the Capture system immediately attempts to allocate and cue channels for that recording. Allocated channels are not available to other recordings. If the recording does not start within the ten minute cue timeout period, the channels are released and made available for subsequent recordings.

If the timeout on a cued recording needs to be extended, the Extend timeout button, located in the upper left side of the Control panel can be used. Extending the timeout may affect channel allocation for any other overlapping recordings using the same channel pool(s). For instance, the Schedule panel can show the recording extending until the timeout plus the recording’s duration. The channel allocation counts are also affected. Channel allocation is displayed in the recording detail and contributes to schedule health displayed in the calendar and elsewhere.

A recording that has ended remains in the Control panel for a short time. This allows you to start a new recording using the same parameters.

To extend a timeout duration:

t Press the Extend Timeout button.

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The previous example shows the timeout following a Cue command, counting down. When you extend the timeout, the timeout is increased by 10 minutes each time the button is pressed.

Diagnostics

The Diagnostics panel is displayed by selecting it from the Help menu. This panel contains information used by Avid support personnel should issues arise with Avid Interplay Capture.

This panel contains tabs which provide information about general and advanced alerts, actions, and a schedule list. See the Avid Interplay Capture Administration Guide for more information about the Diagnostics panel.

Channel Monitor

The Channel Monitor panel is available only in the Capture Monitor application and displays information and messages about Channels. The cells in the table display the channels, their health, transport status, recording information (start time, duration, sources), and the channel pools to which the channels belong.

Channel Monitor

This panel displays various information about the status of ingest channels configured for your Capture system as well as information about any recording using a channel.

Column Heading Description

Channel The Channel column displays the name of the channel as well as an icon

Transport Status Transport status is the current status of a recording, such as whether it is in a

Recording The Recording column displays the name of the recording.

Start The Start column displays the start time of the recording.

Duration The Duration column displays the duration of the recording.

Sources The Sources column displays all of the sources for the recording.

Channel Pools The Channel Pools column displays all of the Channel pools for the

Health Status Icons

The current health status of a channel is reflected in the Channel name column of the Channels panel.

depicting the current health state of the channel. For descriptions of the heath icons, see “Health Status Icons” on page 53.

cued or recording state.

recording.

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Health Status Icon Description

Normal, good health status.

Warning health status.

Critical, failure health status.

Router Crosspoints

The Router Crosspoints panel is available in the Interplay Capture Monitor application and displays information and messages about crosspoints. The cells in the table display the sources that are routed to the level of a destination.

If the router supports protection and it is enabled, a system administrator can protect (lock) or unprotect (unlock) routes using the Router Crosspoints panel. For instance, a user may have protected (locked) a route during a recording so that other users may not access it. If something goes wrong while recording, the system administrator can unprotect (un lock) the source video.

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The Avid Interplay Capture application allows you to easily schedule and control video recordings.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Overview

• Starting the Capture Application

• Menu bar

• Status Bar

• Customizing the Capture Application

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Overview

Avid Interplay Capture allows you to schedule and control video recordings in advance on a recurring or non-recurring basis or initiate instant recordings. The video can be recorded from live video feeds. For more information about using the Schedule application, see

“Recordings” on page 63.

The Avid Interplay Capture application includes a menu bar and various panels, which can be arranged and configured according your working preferences. For more information about panels, see “Working with Panels” on page 26.

Starting the Capture Application

You can easily schedule and control video recordings using the Avid Interplay Capture application.

To start the Capture application:

1. Do one of the following:

t Click the Start button and select:

All Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Capture > Avid Interplay Capture

t If a shortcut was created on the desktop, double click the Avid Interplay Capture

icon for the Avid Interplay Capture application.

The Avid Interplay Capture login dialog box opens.

Starting the Capture Application

2. Enter the required information.

t Select your Interplay workgroup from the drop-down list.

t Select a Capture system from the drop-down list. The Capture Servers running in

your workgroup automatically appear in the list.

The Interplay Server and Interplay Database names are set up for you by your system

administrator.

t Enter your User name.

t Enter your Password.

3. Click the Login button.

The Avid Interplay Capture application opens.

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Menu bar

For more information about the menus and options available on in each see, “Menu Bar” on

page 18.

Status Bar

The Status bar shows connectivity and health of the Capture system and subsystems, including the Capture service, record controller, and shared storage. For more information, see “Status Bar” on page 20.

Customizing the Capture Application

The Avid Capture application is customizable so it can be arranged and configured according your working preferences.You start with the default configuration and from there decide the layout of the panels in your workspace. For more information about working with panels, see “Working with Panels” on page 26.

Some customizing can also be done using the Options dialog box, which is found in the Tools menu. You can even import options that were previously saved, to use for your workspace.

To open the Options dialog box:

t Select Options from the Tools menu.

To configure the clock attributes:

1. Open the Options dialog box.

2. In the directory pane select the Clock option.

3. Do one of the following:

t Click the import button to import options from a previously saved file. This imports

all of the options including those for the layout of the application, which are not shown in this dialog box.

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t Manually set the options you want to use.

4. Click the Apply button.

To manually set the clock options:

1. Set the clock’s text and background colors,

2. Set the clock to either a 12- or 24-hour format.

3. Set the font size and attributes.

The sample is displayed in the Clock section.

4. Click the Apply button.

To configure the Schedule Item Detail:

1. Open the Options dialog box.

2. In the directory pane select the Schedule Item Detail option.

The Schedule Item Detail section is displayed.

3. Manually set the options you want to use.

4. Click the Apply button.

Customizing the Capture Application

To restore all default options:

1. Click the Restore Defaults button. This restores all default settings for all options including those for the layout of the application, which are not shown in this dialog box.

2. Click the Apply button.

To configure Schedule panel display characteristics:

1. Select Options from the tools menu.

The Options dialog box appears.

2. Select Schedule in the Options tree-style directory.

3. Select the font for the Schedule items.

4. Select the font characteristics, size, bold, italic.

5. Set the number of characters to display.

6. Set the number of lines to display.

7. Click the Apply button.

Click the Restore Defaults button to restore the default settings.

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To configure Item Detail options:

1. Select Options from the Tools menu.

The Options dialog box appears.

2. Select Item Detail from the tree-style Options menu.

3. Click to show or not show all channel pools in table.

At a site with Avid Router Control where there are a small number of channel pools, for

instance, two channel pools, one named HD and the other named SD, it would be desirable to display both channel pools in the list. However, at sites not using Avid Router Control, and having a large number of channel pools, it might be better to display only the channel pools active for each particular recording.

4. Click to automatically show or not show the text field helper.

5. Click the Apply button.

Click the Restore Defaults button to restore the default options.

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Avid Interplay Capture allows users to schedule recordings in advance, on a recurring or non-recurring basis, that start automatically or which can be controlled manually by a user issuing the cue, record, and stop commands. It permits users to initiate a “one button record” or instant recording when the Favorites “Begin recording immediately” option is checked. The video can be recorded from live video feeds or digitized from a video tape recorder device, known as a VTR.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Recordings and Formats

• Scheduled Recordings

• Manual Recordings

• Recurring Recordings

• Multi-cam Recordings

• Multi-Resolution Recordings

• Instant Recordings

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Recordings and Formats

The Schedule application provides users a way to schedule recordings in advance, on a single day or on recurring days. Users can also perform instant recordings for late-breaking news events. A recording can be of more than one type. For instance, it could be a multi-cam, multi-resolution, mirrored, recurring recording. The following table describes the most common types of recordings.

Recording types Description

Single Channel Recording This types of recording has one source, one destination, and one

resolution.

Multi-resolution Recording A video recording resulting in more than one resolution from the same

source. This is a combination of HD, SD, and/or low-resolution proxy video. This may be used in a multi-resolution workflow with dynamic relink.

Mirrored Recording A mirrored recording is a recording that has two channels selected

from the channel pool for each recording source, rather than just one. When a recording is mirrored, if one of the mirrored channels fails to record for any reason, there is a backup.

Multi-cam Recording A Multi-cam recording can be either a scheduled or a manual

recording type. It results in one or more recorded clips for each ingest source. This type of recording is most often used in a multi-camera workflow where the source material is closely related but not interchangeable. For more information, see “Multi-cam Recordings”

on page 80.

Feed Recording This type of recording is one from a source with a continuous feed. For

Instance, a feed from a satellite.

Scheduled Recording This type of recording is one that has started or is scheduled to start at a

scheduled time.

Manual Recording A manual recording is a recording initiated by a user, by pressing the

Cue and or Record buttons, rather than being scheduled to begin automatically at a specified time. One type of manual recording is an Instant recording. For more information see, “Instant Recordings” on

page 80.

Instant Recording An instant recording is a video recording initiated by a user that begins

immediately and one type of manual recording. For more information see, “Instant Recordings” on page 80. This type of recording can be started with one-click from the Favorites panel. For more information see, “Favorites” on page 33.

Scheduled Recordings

Recording types Description

Recurring Recording A recurring recording allows a user to schedule recordings at regular

intervals, such as daily, weekly or monthly. For more information see,

“Recurring Recordings” on page 78.

Segmented Recording .This type of recording is one that is automatically divided into smaller

segments. For instance, a 24 hour recording segmented into 24 one hour segments, which are easier to work with than having one very large recording.

The following table defines the most common recording formats.

Format Category Description

SD Channel A channel configured for standard definition (NTSC or PAL)

HD Channel A channel configured for high definition (1080i, 720p, etc.)

Low-resolution Channel A channel configured for low-resolution (MPEG-2)

Scheduled Recordings

Capture Schedule application allows users to easily schedule a video recording in advance of a scheduled feed or schedule multiple recordings—simultaneously capturing high resolution video with audio—from a variety of sources. When setting up a scheduled recording, users can specify whether the recording should recur on a regular daily or weekly basis, to ingest a satellite feed that occurs on a regular daily or weekly basis. Scheduled recordings can be turned into manual recordings at any time by using the Transport controls available in the Schedule application.

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To open the Capture Schedule application:

1. Do one of the following:

t Click the Start button and, select:

All Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Capture > Avid Interplay Capture

t If a shortcut was created on the desktop, double click the Avid Interplay Capture

icon for the Schedule application.

The Avid Interplay Capture login window opens.

2. Enter the required information.

3. Click the Login button.

The Avid Interplay Capture application opens.

To schedule a recording:

1. Do one of the following:

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t Press

t On the Schedule panel, select a time/duration and then use the keyboard shortcut

t Select the New option from the File menu.

t Select the New Default option from the File menu or keyboard shortcut

t Double-click anywhere on the Schedule panel and later, in the Schedule Item

t Double-click a source on the Sources panel.

t Double-click a channel pool on the Channel Pool panel.

t Click a favorite on the Favorites panel. The favorite includes a template so the

The Choose Template dialog box opens:

If the New Default or Favorite option was selected, the Choose Template dialog box is not

displayed and the Schedule Item panel opens.

Ctrl + N

Ctrl + Shift + N

Ctrl + N

(

Shift + N

Detail panel opens, ready to populate with the details for the recording.

Details panel, you can add the date and time you want the recording to occur.

Choose Template dialog box is skipped. The Schedule Item Detail panel opens, ready to populate with the details for the recording. For more information, see

“Using a Favorite” on page 73.

, to skip the Choose Template dialog box.

) to create a recording with a specific date/time/duration.

. The Choose Template dialog box is skipped and the Schedule Item

Ctrl +

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2. Do one of the following:

t Select a template to use for your new recording and press the Open button.

A template can contain all or part of the required data for a recording. For more information

about creating templates and using favorites see, “Favorites” on page 33.

t Press the Skip button to create a recording without a using a template.

The Schedule Item Detail panel opens.

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3. Enter a name for this recording. You can also right-click and use the text field helper to add information in this field.

Users can right click in any of the text fields in the Schedule Item Detail panel to enable the

Text Field Helper toolbar. This toolbar can be used to populate any of the text fields with preset information such as date, time or current user. For more information about using the text field helper, see “Schedule Item Detail” on page 45.

4. Pick a folder location, from the Interplay directory tree, where Capture will check the clip into Interplay. You can access a list of recently used folders by clicking the down arrow next to the folder field.

5. (Optional) enter a tape name. You can also right-click and use the text field helper to add information in this field.

6. (Optional) enter any helpful comments for this recording.

7. Add one or more sources for this recording. For more information about using multiple sources, see “Multi-cam Recordings” on page 80.

Sources are only used if automated routing is enable in the system. If automated routing is

disabled, that Sources field is not displayed in the Recording Detail panel.

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8. Add one or more channel pools to this recording. You can do this using the plus (+) sign

9. (Optional) enter a Video ID. Enable the Video ID field by marking the check box.

10. (Optional) enable the Monitor field by marking the check box. The monitor field is only

11. (Optional) select an aspect ratio from the Aspect ratio drop down to based on your

12. Specify the start date, time, duration, segments time, and recurrence information that

control button located to the right of the Channels text field and selecting a channel pool from the list, or by pressing the Insert key on your keyboard while the mouse pointer is in the Channel Pool field to bring up the list of channel pools. You can also use the mouse to mark the check box next to the channel pool(s) you want to use.

available when routing is enabled and monitors are configured. This option routes the recording's video source to an external monitor when the recording starts so you can see the video as it records.

definition preferences. For instance select 4.3 for standard definition or select 16.9 for high definition.

applies to this recording using the schedule tool on the right-hand side of the General tab. For more information, see “Date, Duration, and Segments” on page 75.

13. Click the Save button (or

Ctrl + S

) to save the recording.

After creating a new recording the recording is displayed on the timeline in the Schedule panel.

Status, Health, and Transport Indicators for Recordings

Recordings show up on the timeline in colored boxes with the colors indicating the status of the recording. For instance, a white box indicates a scheduled recording. A recording currently in progress is red in color while a green box depicts a successful recording in the past. A black color indicates missing media.

When a recording box is selected on the schedule timeline, the text displays in a contrasting

color that helps distinguish it from the background color for easier readability.

Capture displays the transport status for each recording with an icon in the upper left-hand corner of the recording. With each different transport state and icon there is also an associated background color. For instance, a cued recording has a light yellow background color in addition to the icon in the upper right-hand corner.

A health status background color supersedes a transport status background color. For

instance, if a recording is cued, but there is a critical health warning, the background color of the recording box on the schedule timeline, would be bright red. Both the cued transport status icon and the red X health status icon would be displayed on the recording box in the Schedule timeline.

The following table describes the types of transport indicators, which might be seen in a recording box on the schedule timeline. No health icons or background colors are indicated in the table.

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Transport Type Recording Description

Idle No icon is displayed in the upper left-hand corner

of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is white.

Cued A cued icon is displayed in the upper left-hand

corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is light yellow.

Recording A record icon is displayed in the upper left-hand

corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is light red.

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Transport Type Recording Description

Done - Success A green square icon is displayed in the upper

Done - Error A red X icon is displayed in the upper left-hand

Done - Warning A yellow triangle icon is displayed in the upper

left-hand corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is green.

corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is black. An example of what night cause this would be if a high-resolution channel stopped recording or never started to record.

left-hand corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is gray. An example of what night cause this would be if a low-resolution channel stopped recording or never started to record.Mirrored channels that fail would also cause this type of transport state.

For more information about the types of icons used to show the transport status of a

recording see, “Transport Icons” on page 97.

In addition to the colors that show the transport status of a recording on the schedule timeline, Capture displays colored icons showing the health of the recording in the upper right-hand corner of the recording box.

A health status background color supersedes a transport status background color.

The following table describes the types of health indicators, which might be seen in a recording box on the schedule timeline. No transport states are indicated in the table.

Health Type Recording Description

Normal No icon is displayed in the upper right-hand corner of

the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is white.

Health Type Recording Description

Warning A yellow triangle icon is displayed in the upper

Critical A red X icon is displayed in the upper right-hand

For more information about the types of icons used for recording health see, “Recording

Health Status Icons” on page 95.

Using a Favorite

When scheduling a recording, you can select a favorite on the Favorites panel. The favorite includes a template, which helps you to quickly create your recording by opening the Schedule Item Detail panel so you can populate it with the details for the recording.

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right-hand corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is bright yellow.

corner of the recording box on the schedule timeline. The background color for the recording box is bright red.

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For more information, see “Favorites” on page 33.

Moving Recordings on the Schedule Panel Timeline

Recordings can be moved from one spot to another on the timeline by dragging them to a new location on the timeline. Dragging one recording to an earlier or later time position on the Schedule timeline, snaps the recording to 5 minute increments. Holding the Ctrl key down while performing this action snaps the recording to 1 minute increments.

Moving a recording to a time earlier than the current time, which is indicated by the position

of the yellow timeline bar, results in the recording trying to start immediately. Continuing to move a recording time up to a position on the timeline earlier than the current time, shortens that recording's duration.

Holding the Shift or Ctrl keys while dragging multiple recordings deselects everything except the last recording selected.

Date, Duration, and Segments

When scheduling a recording, the date and time for the recording must be specified as well as the duration of the recording. When scheduling a particularly long recording, Avid recommends breaking up the recording into smaller, more manageable segments using the segment feature of Capture. For instance, recording a 6-hour long feed, could be broken up into 6 one-hour clip segments. These segments are more easily managed and smaller recordings also improve the usability of the editor by not having to load such long clips.

Segmentation may be set to turn on automatically when set by the administrator. The setting restricts the maximum clip duration. When the segmentation option is enabled, Capture attempts to segment the recording at the requested interval based on availability of healthy channels for each channel pool selected in a recording. Each segment results in separate MXF and AFF files on shared storage and separate master clips in Interplay.

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To specify a date and duration for a recording:

1. Select a date using the tools on the General tab of the Schedule Item Detail panel.

2. Do one of the following:

t Set the Start date.

t Set Time.

t Set the duration using the Duration buttons.

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Pressing the Shift key on your keyboard while clicking any of the Duration buttons adds time

in that increment, to the duration of the recording. Pressing the Ctrl key on your keyboard while clicking any of the Duration buttons subtracts time in that increment, from the duration of the recording.

3. Click the Save button to save the recording with the specified date and duration.

To specify segment durations:

1. Mark the check box to enable Segments.

2. Specify the duration of each segment.

3. Click the Save button to save the recording with the specified segmenting.

To set recurrence:

t Select the recurrence cycle from the Recurrence drop-down and click the save button.

Editing Schedule or Metadata

All recording metadata and schedule information may be modified prior to the recording getting cued. After a recording cues, only the metadata can be modified. Specifically, the recording name, Tape name, comments, video ID, and aspect ratio can be modified. Interplay folder, sources, channel pools, workspaces, and schedule details (with the exception of duration and end time) can not be modified after the recording is cued. After a recording finishes, neither metadata, nor schedule information can be modified.

To edit schedule or metadata:

1. Do one of the following:

t Click a recording in the Schedule panel.

t Double-click a recording in the Control panel.

The Schedule Item Detail panel for the item opens.

2. Edit accordingly:

t For inactive recordings you can edit any of the schedule data or metadata.

t For active recordings you can edit the Name, Tape Name, Comments, and video ID,

and aspect ratio data fields.

t (Optional) the duration of the recording can be changed by dragging the leading or

trailing edge of the recording and sizing it to another point in time on the timeline in the Schedule panel. The end time (duration) of an active recording (while it is recording) can be changed by dragging the trailing edge of the recording in the timeline.

3. Do one of the following to save the changes:

t Press the Save button to save the changes.

Scheduled Recordings

t Press

t Select the save option from the File menu.

Ctrl + S

Cloning a Recording

Cloning a recording allows a previously scheduled recording to be used as a single-use template from which another recording can be created. You can clone a past or future recording. For instance, say you scheduled a recording for 1:00 PM to capture the President’s speech but he has been delayed and the speech won’t start until 2:25 PM. You already have the recording setup the way you want it, you just need to change the start time. Cloning allows you to quickly duplicate the recording.

To clone a recording:

1. Right-click the recording you want to clone.

2. Select the Clone option.

When cloning a recording, which has already started or finished, the clone appears at the next half hour boundary. In the case of a recording in the future the clone appears next to the original recording in the Schedule panel timeline

You can also clone a past recording by selecting the old recording and pressing the CUE or

Record button. This creates and cues or records a clone of that recording in one step.

to save the changes

Deleting a Recording

After you have scheduled a recording, if you decide you no longer need that recording, you can delete it from the Schedule panel.

To delete a scheduled recording:

1. Right-click the recording item in the Schedule panel

2. Select Delete from the menu.

The Confirm Deletion dialog box opens.

3. Click the Yes button.

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A recording in the past cannot be deleted.

Transfer Status

Capture displays the transfer status of recordings using icons displayed on the Schedule panel timeline. For more information, see “Status Icons” on page 44.

Clips

A successful recording results in a clip ingested in to the Interplay database which can then be used for many various projects. For more information see the “Overview” on page 84 concerning clips and other related topics.

Manual Recordings

Manual recordings are those controlled using the transport controls. Scheduled recordings can become manual recordings at any time by using the transport controls available in the Schedule application.

For more information about the Transport Controls, see “Control” on page 48.

To create a manual recording:

1. Do one of the following

t Create a new recording. See “Scheduled Recordings” on page 65.

t Open an existing recording in the Schedule Item detail panel.

t Select existing recording in Control panel

2. Press the Cue or Record transport control button.

Recurring Recordings

A recurring recording is a group of individual instances of recordings that start on a recurring basis, such as daily, weekly or monthly.

Recurring Recordings

To create a recurring recording:

1. Create a new recording or click a scheduled recording from which you want to create a recurring recording.

2. Choose a recurrence pattern.

Daily— happens every day of the week.

Weekly— takes place on specified days of each week, such as Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Monthly— occurs on the same date every month, such as the 15th of every month.

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When a weekly recurrence is selected, the days of the week on which the recurrence occurs

must also be specified.

3. Click the Save button (or

Ctrl + S

) to save the recording.

Multi-Resolution Recordings

A multi-resolution recording is a video recording resulting in more than one resolution recorded for the same source. This recording can be a combination of HD, SD, and/or low-resolution proxy video. It can be used in a multi-resolution workflow with dynamic relink. Dynamic relink is used to specify the working and target resolutions for the Avid editing applications.

You create a multi-resolution recording just as you would any but when you select your channel pools, you will choose two (or maybe more) pools of channels each having different types of resolutions. For instance, you might select a high-resolution pool (720p for example) as well as a low-resolution pool (MPEG2 for example).

Multi-cam Recordings

A multi-cam, sometimes referred to as multi-source, recording results in one or more recorded clips for each ingest source. This type of recording is most often used in a multi-camera workflow where the source material is closely related but not interchangeable.

To add multiple sources to a recording:

1. Do one of the following:

t Press the Insert key on your keyboard, while the mouse pointer is in the Sources

field, to display a list of sources from which to choose.

t Press the plus (+) sign control button located to the right of the Sources text field.

t Drag and drop a source from the Sources panel to the Sources text field.

Instant Recordings

An instant recording is a video recording initiated by a user that begins immediately. This type of recording can be started with one-click from the Favorites panel. To save time and customize your process, you can create one or more favorites to use specifically for different instant recording scenarios.

Instant Recordings

To initiate an instant recording:

1. Open the Capture Schedule application.

2. Click a favorite in the Favorites panel that was configured for instant recording.

Not all favorites are instant recordings. To learn more about configuring a favorite to trigger

an instant recording, see “Favorites” on page 33.

The recording begins immediately. It is displayed on the Schedule panel timeline, just ahead of the current time, and the Schedule Item Detail panel opens so that you can enter information even as the recording starts. For more information, see “Editing

Schedule or Metadata” on page 76.

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5 Clips

Avid Interplay Capture creates clips from recordings. Master clips are written to Interplay to represent a recording. Capture controls ingest devices (Airspeed, AMS, and Low-resolution encoders) that all create their own Master Clips, which Capture refers to as device clips.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Overview

• Master Clips

• Master Clip Start and End Times

• Clip Metadata

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Overview

The Master Clip is also how Capture associates multiple device clips together into one Master Clip that can be accessed when using an editor. There are four scenarios when multiple device clips are associated with the recording’s Master Clip.

• Multi-resolution recordings

• Mirrored recordings

• Channel failure/failover

• Retransfers

For each of these workflows, dynamic relink is required when opening a Capture Master Clip in any of the Avid editors (Assist, Instinct, NewsCutter, or Media Composer), including single channel recordings, multi-resolution, mirrored, and channel failures.

Master Clips

The creation of the Master Clip happens the first time Capture detects an ingest device clip for a recording that was checked in to Interplay. Typically, ingest devices are setup to checkin to Interplay approximately 30 seconds from the start of the recording. Capture searches Interplay in the device clips folder, defined in Interplay for new clips about every 30 seconds. When the first clip is found, the Master Clip is created in the Interplay folder specified for the recording.

• For mirrored and multi-resolution recordings, where there are multiple ingest device clips that are added to the same Master Clip, the additional device clips are associated with the same Master Clip.

• Channel failure and channel failover can result in multiple device clips that are added to the same Master Clip.

• Retransfered clips are appended to the original Master Clip, if that clip still exists in Interplay. If the original Master Clip does not exist, a new one is created and the retransfered clip is associated with the new Master Clip.

• Multi-cam (multi-source) recordings result in separate Master Clips for each source specified in Interplay Capture.

• Segmented recordings (for example: 24 hour recording with 1 hour segments) result in separate Master Clips for each segment.

If the Master Clip is deleted from Interplay and Capture needs to update something in the

clip, Interplay Capture creates a new Master Clip in the original folder requested by the recording’s specified details. In this case, previous data, such as associated clips, are not restored to the Master Clip.

Device Clip Updates

Devices, such as AirSpeed, AirSpeed Multi Stream, and Low-resolution encoders each create their own Master clips referred to in Interplay Capture as a device clip. Every time a device clip is updated, Capture updates the Master Clip in Interplay. This allows searches for recent media to return long recordings that are still in progress.

Master Clip Start and End Times

Master Clip start and end times are based on information the user set in the Capture recording details. There are three different ways Interplay Capture handles the start and end times checked in with the Master Clip.

• Scheduled Recordings — When Capture creates the Master Clip, the scheduled start time and scheduled end time are used for start and end times of the clip. To prevent Interplay Capture from losing media during recordings, Capture cues the recording 15 seconds early and also tells the ingest device what time start recording. Each device handles this command a bit differently, but the general behavior shared by all devices is that they all start a little early. Even though they started before the scheduled start time, the Master Clip only reflects media from the scheduled start time to the scheduled end time.

Master Clip Start and End Times

• Manual Recordings — When Capture creates the Master Clip, the manual start time is used as the start time and the scheduled end time is used for the end time of the Master Clip. Manual recordings are different from scheduled recordings because Interplay Capture can not cue the clip before the time the user asked the recording to start. There is a small delay between the manual start time and the time a device actually started recording. This results in the Avid editor reporting MEDIA OFFLINE during this short delay. To resolve this, Interplay Capture has a system setting to offset the start time of the Master Clip for manual recordings only. This offset is measured in a small number of seconds by default.

• Segmented Recordings — Each segment of a recording results in a new Master Clip. Each source has it’s own Master Clip as well. The Master Clip of a segmented recording starts and stops back-to-back on exactly the same frame. If you piece each Master Clip together in an Avid editor, you are able to build the complete recording as a whole.

The device clips of a Master Clip are slightly more complicated. All ingest channels of the

next segment in the recording (per source) must start recording before all current channels are stopped. This results in overlap in recorded media that amounts to about two seconds.

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Clip Metadata

Metadata about a recording is included in the Master Clip in Interplay. The metadata includes the following:

• Recording Name

•Tape Name

• Comments

• Aspect Ratio Name

• Thumbnail

•Start Time

• End Time — Changed durations during the recording reflect in the next metadata update to the Master Clip (triggered by device clip updates).

• Current Video Resolution — Capture uses the resolution from the first device clip it finds that is not a low-resolution.

• Audio Tracks — Each ingest channel in Capture is configure, in the channel pool settings, with a number of audio tracks. When the Master Clip is created for a recording, the highest number of audio tracks for all the channels used in the recording is used. The configured number of audio tracks in Capture and the actual number of audio tracks a device has are not necessarily the same.

• Workspace — Capture allows different workspaces to be used in a recording, but Interplay will only reflect one of those workspaces in the Master Clip.

• MOB_COMPLETE — When any device clip marks itself complete, Capture marks the Master Clip complete.

• Duration — By updating this field Capture keeps the Master Clip duration field time advancing as long as the recording is in progress. This allows searches for recent media to return long recordings that are still in progress.

Metadata such as recording name, comments, tape name, video ID, duration, and aspect ratio may be modified after the recording starts, and that metadata is reflected in Interplay. Non-user entered metadata is updated during device clip checkin. Metadata changes in Capture are applied to all Master Clips for which media is recording, transferring, retransferring, or has recently finished transferring, but which Capture has not yet marked as complete.

Metadata updates are not reflected from Interplay to Capture. For instance, if the user changes the recording name in Interplay Access or Assist, that change is not reflected back to Capture. If the user subsequently changes the recording’s name in Capture, it writes their change to Interplay. Capture assumes ownership of its metadata on the Master Clip. If the

Master Clip changes folders in Interplay, Capture can still locate and write updates to it. If the Master Clip is deleted from Interplay and Capture needs to update something in the clip, Capture recreates the Master Clip in the original folder requested in the recording’s details.

Clip Retransfer

Clip retransfer creates new media located in shared storage (ISIS) and additional file locators associated with the Master Clip. A clip retransfer may be required in the following scenarios:

• Shared storage and/or Interplay are offline. This could result in a successful recording but the original transfer would fail. Capture would indicate a done state but a failed transfer state.

• Media or Master Clip was accidentally deleted from shared storage and Interplay. Capture would not reflect the deletion of the Master Clip from Interplay but a clip retransfer can still be requested.

Even when the original media is still online and associated with the Master Clip, a user can request a retransfer and see the additional file locators associated with their Master Clip. This essentially creates a mirrored copy of the media online.

Clip Retransfer

Retransferring a clip can be done on any clip, which is not currently recording, about which Capture is aware. However, low-resolution clips can not be retransferred because the low-resolution encoder does not keep recordings on local disk. When a user requests a retransfer, Capture sends a command to the ingest device from which the clip was originally recorded and requests the device retransfer that clip to shared storage and Interplay. If the ingest device still has the clip on disk, the retransfer continues. If the ingest device does not have the clip on disk, the retransfer fails. Capture cannot guarantee the ingest device still has the clip on disk because the ingest devices can be configured to automatically delete clips on scheduled or triggered events.

To initiate a retransfer:

1. Open the recording in Capture and navigate to the Clips tab.

This tab reflects all the clips associated with the recording and their transport and transfer states. The schedule timeline shows a composite transport and transfer status. To see individual clip status, the user must go to the clips tab. When automated routing is enabled, the clips display in a tree-style directory organized by source, target, and clip. When automated routing is not enabled they appear organized by target and clip. Clips are labeled by the auto generated video ID each ingest device provides. The tab also displays events and the time in which they occurred for each clip.

2. Right-click on the clip to retransfer.

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Low-resolution clips cannot be retransferred because the low-resolution encoder does not keep recordings on local disk.

3. Select Retransfer from the menu.

After retransfer request is sent, the original clip’s transfer status is grayed out and a new clip shows up on the Clip tab in the directory. The new clip has its own transfer status indicating the progress of the retransfer. If the clip is still on the ingest device’s hard drive the retransfer attempts to start.

If the clip is no longer on the hard drive of the ingest device, the retransfer will fail as shown in the following example.

The user cannot request a retransfer of a clip that is currently recording. The transport

status must be in a done state before retransfer can be requested.

A Button and Tool Quick Reference

Avid Interplay Capture uses many different buttons and tools to help you make your actions quick and precise. This appendix is serves as a quick reference to some of the buttons and tools used in the Capture applications. It is not all inclusive.

Schedule Panel Timeline Buttons

This section describes the icons that can appear in the Schedule panel timeline.

Button Icon Name of Button Description

Earlier (Up Arrow) This button appears in the default Horizontal view of the

Later (Down Arrow) This button appears in the default Horizontal view of the

Earlier (Left Arrow) This button appears in the default vertical view of the

Later (Right Arrow) This button appears in the default vertical view of the

A Button and Tool Quick Reference

Button Icon Name of Button Description

Now This button is used to bring the yellow current time

Show Calendar Clicking this button Shows the calendar if it was not

Follow Clock Clicking this button keeps the yellow current time

Stop following clock Clicking this button allows the yellow current now time

Zoom In Clicking this button zooms to a smaller time frame on the

indicator into view one time.

displayed and hides it if it was previously showing.

indicator visible on the Schedule panel. It follows the current now time.

indicator to scroll out of view and no longer be visible on the Schedule panel. It stops following the current now time.

“Setting the View Range” on page 42.

Zoom Out Clicking this button zooms out to a greater time frame on

the View Range” on page 42.

Horizontal Timeline Clicking this button changes the timeline in the Schedule

panel to a vertical view.

Vertical Timeline Clicking this button changes the timeline in the Schedule

panel to a horizontal view.

Transport Controls

At the top of the Control panel there is a Transport Control bar containing buttons with which you can manually control a recording

Control Bar Button Button Description

Cue button - Pressing this button manually attempts to cue the selected recording. If the selected recording has already finished, a clone is created and cued.

Cue button - When this button is light yellow it means an item is in a cued state.

Start Recording button - Pressing this button manually attempts to start the selected recording. If the selected recording has already finished, a clone is created and started.

Start Recording button - When this button is red it means a recording has started and is currently underway.

Recording Error button - When the Recording button is red with a white X on it means the recording was started but an error happened.

End Recording button - Pressing this button manually attempts to stop the recording and releases its channels.

End Recording button - When this button is green it means a recording has finished.

VTR Control Buttons and Tools

The VTR Session panel also contains buttons and tools which allow you to control VTR recordings similar to the Control panel for other recordings.

A Button and Tool Quick Reference

VTR Control Button’s Name Button Description

Go Back One Frame

Go Forward One Frame

Rewind Quickly rewinds the clip.

Fast Forward Fast forwards through the clip.

Play/Stop Plays or stops the clip.

Timecode Display Displays timecode. A colon (:) denotes drop frame, and a

Shuttle Shuttles through clip.

Goes back one frame in the clip.

Goes forward one frame in the clip.

semicolon (;) denotes non-drop frame).

Schedule Item Detail Panel Text Helper Buttons

You can right-click in a text field in this panel to open a Text Helper Button bar that can be used to quickly enter information on the panel

Helper Button Helper Button Description

Clicking this button enters a format symbol (hours and minutes) that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters a format symbol (hours, minutes, and seconds) that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters a date of recording using a format symbol (short style, two-digit year, month, and day) that is evaluated when recording begins.

Helper Button Helper Button Description

Clicking this button enters a date of recording using a format symbol (longer style, four-digit year, two-digit month, and two-digit day) that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters a format symbol—single, numeric (1-7) day of the week—that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters a format symbol—an alphabetical abbreviation of the day of the week—that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters a format symbol ($s) for a source that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters a format symbol ($c) for a channel pool that is evaluated when recording begins.

Clicking this button enters your Interplay user name.

Clicking this button enters the current time.

A Button and Tool Quick Reference

Pinnacle Systems Interplay Capture - 1.0 User’s Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Avid Training Services

Overview

Architecture and Workflow

Features

Starting the Software

The User Interface

Panels

Menu Bar

Status Bar

Support Dialog Box

Working with Panels

Alerts

Calendar

Clock

Favorites

Interplay

Schedule

Configuring Schedule Panel Display Characteristics

Moving Recordings on the Schedule Panel Timeline

Buttons

Setting the View Range

Recording Information

Status Icons

Schedule Item Detail

Sources

Channel Pools

Control

Timeout

Diagnostics

Channel Monitor

Health Status Icons

Router Crosspoints

Overview

Starting the Capture Application

Menu bar

Status Bar

Customizing the Capture Application

Recordings and Formats

Scheduled Recordings

Status, Health, and Transport Indicators for Recordings

Using a Favorite

Moving Recordings on the Schedule Panel Timeline

Date, Duration, and Segments

Editing Schedule or Metadata

Cloning a Recording

Deleting a Recording

Transfer Status

Clips

Manual Recordings

Recurring Recordings

Multi-Resolution Recordings

Multi-cam Recordings

Instant Recordings

Overview

Master Clips

Device Clip Updates

Master Clip Start and End Times

Clip Metadata

Clip Retransfer