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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1 Introduction to Avid Interplay Capture

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

The User Interface

• 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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Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

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Overview

Architecture and Workflow

Features

Starting the Software

The User Interface

Panels

Menu Bar

Status Bar

Support Dialog Box