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Avid® Interplay™ Media Services

Setup and User’s Guide

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Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide • 0130-07633-02 Rev B • May 2007 • 05/29/07 16:08

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Viewing User Guides on the Interplay Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 1 Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services System . . . . . . . . . . 15

Software Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Understanding the Media Services Engine Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status Tool. . . 17

Understanding the Standalone Media Services and Transfer Status Tool. . . . . 18

Understanding the Various Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Avid Interplay Archive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Avid Interplay Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Avid Interplay ProEncode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Configuration Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

International Character Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Check List for Transcoding Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Check List for Using ProEncode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Starting the Interplay Media Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 2 Interplay Media Services Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Installing the Media Services Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Registering the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup . . . . . . . . . 33

Configuring the Media Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 3 Using the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Opening the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using the Jobs Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Jobs Page Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Customizing the Jobs Page Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Filtering the Jobs List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Viewing Details About a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Purging the Jobs List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Prioritizing a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Canceling a Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Deleting a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Retrying a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Exporting the Jobs List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Understanding the Providers Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Opening the Providers Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Customizing the Providers Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Viewing Details About a Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Deleting Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Understanding the Services Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Opening the Services Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Displaying Details About a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Deleting a Media Services Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Understanding the Users Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Opening the Users Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Setting Up User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Reassigning Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Deleting User Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 4 Installing Services and Registering Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Installing a Media Services Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Registering the Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Connecting a Provider to the Service Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Starting the Media Services Service Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Verifying a Service is Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Configuring the Archive Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring the Archive Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring Auto Archive Using the Avid Interplay Service Configuration . . . . . 77

Verifying the Auto Archive Service is Running. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using the Interplay Framework to Verify Auto Archive Service is

Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using Computer Management to Verify Avid Interplay AutoArchive

Service is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Connecting to the Archive Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chapter 5 Creating Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating a Transcode Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating an Avid Archive or Avid Restore Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Creating an Archive or Restore Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Locating the Partition Value for an Archive Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Creating a ProEncode Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Chapter 6 Using the Transcode Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Transcoding an Asset from the Avid Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Transcoding from an Avid Editing Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Connecting to the Media Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Performing a Transcode from within the Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Working with an Auto Transcode Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Preparing the Workgroup for Auto Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Identify an Auto Transcode Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Transcoding Avid Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Location of Automatically Transcoded Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 7 Using the Archive Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Archiving from the Avid Editing Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Connecting to the Media Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Performing an Archive from within the Avid Editing Application. . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Archiving Assets Using the Avid Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Working with an Auto Archive Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Preparing the Workgroup for Auto Archive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Identify an Auto Archive Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Archiving Assets Using an Auto Archive Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Location of Automatically Archived Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Searching the Archive Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Restoring a Clip from the Archive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Performing a Partial Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Partial Restore Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Viewing Partially Restored Media Files in Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

How the System Defines the Size of a Partially Restored File . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Chapter 8 Using Avid Interplay ProEncode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

ProEncode Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Setting Up ProEncode Client and Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Configuring the ProEncode Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Setting Up a ProEncode Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Installing the ProEncode Client Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Configuring a ProEncode Client on an Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Setting up a Standalone ProEncode Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Encoding a Clip or a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Sharing Folders in an Avid Unity Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Sending a Clip or Sequence to ProEncode from an Avid Editing

Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adding a File to ProEncode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Monitoring the Encoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

ProEncode Provider Post-to-Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Check List for ProEncode Provider Post-to-Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Configuring Telestream FlipFactory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Creating a FlipFactory Administrator Account for ProEncode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Creating a Factory for the ProEncode Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Preparing Java for Avid NewsPoller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Appendix A Installing Encoding Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Anystream Agility Workgroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Check List for Installing Anystream Agility Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Installing the Anystream Agility Workgroup Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Uninstalling the GLOBEtrotter FlexID and Sentinel Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Telestream FlipFactory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Installing Telestream FlipFactory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Configuring Telestream FlipFactory for Avid Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Appendix B Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Verify That Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express is Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Remove SQL Server Desktop Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Configure Microsoft SQL Server 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Appendix C Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Finding Solutions for Specific Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

General ProEncode Troubleshooting Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Checking Media Services Jobs Using Avid Interplay Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Troubleshooting the Progress of Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Additional Installation and Configuration Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Name Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Updating the HOSTS File (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of the Avid® Interplay™ Media Services system consisting of the Interplay Media Services Engine, the Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status Tool, and the media services.

The Media Services Engine lets you take advantage of a network environment and pass compute-intensive tasks to other workstations on your network. This allows video editors to stay focused on their editing tasks.

For example, today’s production houses face a rising demand for translating media into formats suitable for distribution via the Web, DVD, or CD-ROM — often at the same time. The encoding operation is a critical part of this work. By moving or distributing this operation to lower cost, dedicated workstations, editing workstations are free to perform other tasks allowing you to generate two streams of revenue-producing work in parallel.

The Interplay Media Services Engine and its Media Services and Transfer Status Tool are the keys to managing these resource-intensive process. This software infrastructure manages all of the Interplay Media Services. As Avid develops new Media Services services, the Media Services Engine will manage those services as well.

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

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

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

Courier Bold font

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

If You Need Help

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

mouse action. For example, Ctrl+drag.

If you are having trouble using Avid Interplay Media Services Engine:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check for the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,

they ship with your application and are also available online.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is

supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document and is also available online.

Viewing User Guides on the Interplay Portal

You should always check online for the most up-to-date ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these

online ReadMe, visit the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/readme.

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

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

Viewing User Guides on the Interplay Portal

You can quickly access the Interplay user guides from any system in the Interplay environment.

To access the Interplay user guides:

1. Type the following line in your web browser: http://Interplay_Engine_name where Interplay_Engine_name is the name of the computer running the Interplay

Engine software. For example, the following line opens the portal web page on a system named DocWG:

http://DocWG

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

Accessing the Online Library

The Avid Interplay Online Library DVD contains all the Avid Interplay product documentation in PDF format.

You need Adobe® Reader® to view the documentation online. You can download the latest version from the Adobe web site.

To access the online library from the Online Library DVD:

1. Insert the Online Library DVD into the drive.

2. Double-click the Mainmenu file.

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How to Order Documentation

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Revision History

The following table lists changes made to this guide after the v1.1 release.

Section Modified Reason for change

“Configuring the Media Services Engine” on page 36

“Configuring the ProEncode Provider” on page 125

“Configuring a ProEncode Client on an Avid Editing Application” on page 127

“Installing Encoding Applications” on page 149

The Data Computer Name setting is no longer left blank.

The Settings Directory setting description indicated the encoding application didn’t need to be installed on the same system as the provider. This was not true. Both the encoding application and provider must be installed on the same system.

The Shared Storage setting description indicated this setting should be left blank. This was incorrect. You need to specify a location for the QuickTime reference movie files.

This appendix was rewritten to clarify the information.

Chapter 1

Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services System

The Interplay Media Services system uses the concept of service providers. The Media Services Engine manages the various providers. A provider is a software program that can perform a particular service for an Avid editing application, such as transcode, archive, and restore of assets.

You can use the Interplay Media Services in a workgroup. A workgroup enables collaborative workflows by allowing multiple editors to share media. For diagrams showing typical shared-storage workgroup configurations, see Avid Interplay Best Practices.

This chapter provides an overview of the Interplay Media Services system and contains the following topics:

• Software Components

• Understanding the Various Media Services

• Configuration Requirements

• International Character Support

• Check List for Transcoding Assets

• Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets

• Check List for Using ProEncode

• Starting the Interplay Media Services Engine

Software Components

The software used to manage media services is composed of two major components: the

Media Services and Transfer Status tool. Also available is

Media Services Engine and the the standalone Media Services and Transfer Status tool software that lets you manage media services from another system on the network.

The Interplay Media Services server and any clients need the Avid Interplay Access software and the Avid Interplay Framework for Client software installed.

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For details on each component, see the following topics:

• Understanding the Media Services Engine Software

• Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

• Understanding the Standalone Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

Understanding the Media Services Engine Software

The Media Services Engine matches jobs and their corresponding settings with suitable providers. The Media Services Engine is a repository of job and provider information. It lets individual providers choose jobs that they are able to process according to the service for which they are configured.

The Media Services Engine should not reside on the same computer as an Avid editing application. The Media Services Engine might be installed on a provider system, depending on the individual provider and the workload of the particular computer.

The Avid Interplay Media Services window displays current information about the status of the Media Services Engine, including the host name for the system on which the Media Services Engine resides. The Media Services Engine uses the host name to identify itself on the network.

Avid Interplay Media Services window

Host name of the system where the Interplay Media Services Engine resides.

The Avid Interplay Media Services window provides access to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For information about using the Media Services and Transfer Status tool, see “Using the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 39.

Software Components

You can also set Interplay Media Services settings from the Avid Interplay Media Services window. For information on setting the Interplay Media Services settings, see “Configuring

the Media Services Engine” on page 36.

For a procedure on starting the Interplay Media Services Engine, see “Starting the Interplay

Media Services Engine” on page 27.

Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

The Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status tool communicates with the Avid Interplay Media Services Engine to let you manage media services. The Media Services and Transfer Status tool installs with the Interplay Media Services software. Media services, such as Avid Interplay Transcode, are layered on the software infrastructure known as Interplay Media Services.

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The Media Services Engine and the Media Services and Transfer Status tool manage all media services. The Media Services and Transfer Status tool performs three types of functions:

• Provides detailed information about Media Services, based on lists of jobs, encoders, profiles, and users.

• Provides controls for managing services and registering providers.

• Provides controls for managing Media Services such as canceling jobs, deleting provider software, creating or deleting profiles, and creating or deleting users.

The functions you can perform depends on your user’s rights. Administrators can perform the following tasks:

• Register and delete providers

• View details on any job

• Delete jobs submitted by any user

• Purge the jobs list

Regular users can perform administrative tasks only on their own jobs.

Understanding the Standalone Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

The standalone Media Services and Transfer Status tool software communicates with the Interplay Media Services to let you manage media services from any system that has the Media Services and Transfer Status tool software installed.

Understanding the Various Media Services

Media services can be distributed to dedicated workstations in a networked environment, thereby freeing computer resources to perform other tasks.

The following table lists the services managed by the Media Services Engine.

The services managed by the Media Services Engine are not limited to the services listed in this table.

Service Description

Avid Interplay Archive service Avid Interplay Restore service

Avid Interplay Transcode service Lets you transcode Avid assets from one Avid-supported

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Avid Interplay ProEncode

service Provides integration to AnyStream™ and Telestream for

Provides access to archive and restore features. The Avid Interplay Archive and Restore services manage the process of moving data, instead of using the Avid Interplay Transfer Engine. For more information, see

“Avid Interplay Archive” on page 19.

resolution to another. For example, you can use the Avid Interplay Transcode service to create a low resolution version of a sequence or master clip. For more information, see “Avid Interplay Transcode” on page 20.

non-Avid format transcode services (for example, transcoding from an Avid resolution to Windows Media File format). For more information, see “Avid Interplay

ProEncode” on page 20.

When you install Avid Interplay Archive services or Avid Interplay Transcode services on a computer, the installation program also installs a provider software program for each service. After you install the services, you use the Media Services Engine to register the providers that you want to use on a particular computer.

Avid Interplay Archive

The archive process lets you create an offline copy of clips, sequences, and other file assets.You typically set up an Avid Interplay Archive Server and archive database that is similar to the Avid Interplay Server and database. One major difference is that the files managed by the Archive Engine are usually stored on an external storage device. The Archive database keeps track of the files that you store on the external storage device and lets you restore the files to your online system when they are needed.

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For example, you might have high resolution and low resolution versions of a clip. To save disk space, you can archive the high resolution version and edit with the low resolution version. When your sequence is finished, you can restore the high resolution version from the archive and relink your sequence to the high resolution version.

The Avid Interplay Auto Archive service lets you create auto archive folders. Any assets placed in an auto archive folder are archived according to the Archive settings. For example, you can create an auto archive folder for each media server (such as an AirSpeed assets captured by the AirSpeed are placed in the associated auto archive folder and are automatically archived.

You can also restore any archived assets.

Avid Interplay Transcode

Transcoding Avid assets from one resolution to another resolution is available with the Avid Interplay Transcode service and Avid Interplay Auto Transcode service. For example, you can use the Avid Interplay Transcode service to create a low resolution version of a sequence or master clip.

). Any

To transcode non-Avid assets use the Avid Interplay ProEncode provider.

Avid Interplay ProEncode

The Avid Interplay ProEncode provider accepts the job from the Media Services Engine and passes the information about the sequence to the encoding software. The provider monitors the progress of the encoding operation and reports the progress to the Media Services Engine. When the job is complete, the Interplay ProEncode provider copies the new files to the proper location and notifies the Media Services Engine that the job is complete. You can monitor the job using the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

For example, an Avid Interplay ProEncode provider runs on a system containing encoding software such as Anystream Agility to transform media into different formats that are suitable for delivery on the Web, DVD, or CD-ROM.

In a typical scenario, an Avid editor would send a sequence to the Media Services Engine using the File > Send to > Encoding > Avid Interplay ProEncode command. This tells the Media Services Engine that the editor wants to send the selected sequence to ProEncode for processing.

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Workgroup™. ProEncode uses the encoding software

Configuration Requirements

A workgroup enables collaborative workflows by allowing multiple editors to share media. For diagrams showing typical shared-storage workgroup configurations, see Avid Interplay Best Practices.

Configuration Requirements

For any configuration issues that were noted after the document went to print, see the Avid Interplay Media Services ReadMe file.

International Character Support

Media Services Engine, Avid Interplay ProEncode, and your Avid editing applications contain international character support (ICS). ICS allows you to display and input characters in languages other than English. Media Services Engine and Interplay ProEncode support ICS for French, Spanish, German, and Italian only.

For the latest information on ICS, search for the International Character Support document on the Avid Knowledge Base. You can access the Knowledge Base from Avid’s main web page:

www.avid.com

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Check List for Transcoding Assets

For the transcode process, the following table provides a check list of steps for installing and configuring the Interplay Media Services system in an Avid Unity configuring an Avid editing system. The check list also provides references where to find more information about each step.

If the Transcode provider is not running on the Interplay Media Services system, you must connect an application key to a USB port on the Transcode provider system.

Transcoding Assets Check List

Task Section Reference

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environment, and

! Check your configuration. See “Configuration Requirements” on page 21. ! Make sure the Interplay Media Services

application key is connected. If the Transcode provider is not running on the Interplay Media Services system, you must also connect an application key to the Transcode provider system.

! Install the Interplay Framework for Client

software.

See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

! Install the Avid Interplay Access software. See the Avid Interplay Software Installation

and Configuration Guide.

! Install the Interplay Media Services Engine

software.

! Install the Avid Interplay Transcode service

software.

! (Option) Install the Interplay Auto Archive

and Interplay Auto Transcode service software.

! Make sure an Interplay Media Services

administrator account is setup on Avid Unity.

See “Installing the Media Services Software”

on page 30.

See “Installing the Media Services Software”

on page 30.

See “Preparing the Workgroup for Auto

Transcode” on page 99.

See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

! Mount workspaces. See Avid Interplay Best Practices. ! Register the Media Services Engine in a

workgroup.

See “Registering the Media Services Engine in

an Avid Interplay Workgroup” on page 33.

Check List for Transcoding Assets

Transcoding Assets Check List (Continued)

Task Section Reference

! Set e-mail notification for the Interplay

Media Services Engine and let the Avid Interplay Administrator authenticate users during log in.

See “Configuring the Media Services Engine”

on page 36.

! Install Interplay Transcode service. See “Installing a Media Services Service” on

page 62.

! Register the Interplay Provider. See “Registering the Provider” on page 66. ! Connect the Provider to the Service. See “Connecting a Provider to the Service

Software” on page 68.

! Start the Interplay Transcode service

software.

! Verify the Interplay Transcode services are

connected.

See “Starting the Media Services Service

Software” on page 72.

See “Verifying a Service is Connected” on

page 74.

! (Option) Create a Profile. See “Creating Profiles” on page 85. ! Configure the Avid editing system. See “Connecting to the Media Services

Engine” on page 97.

! Perform a transcode. See “Using the Transcode Service” on page 95.

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Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets

For the archiving process, the following table provides a check list of steps for installing and configuring the Interplay Media Services system in an Avid Unity environment and configuring an Avid editing system. The check list also provides references where to find more information about each step.

You must connect the application key to a USB port on the Avid Interplay Archive provider system.

Archiving and Restoring Assets Check List

Task Section Reference

! Setup and configure an Avid Interplay

Archive Server and associated external storage library for archiving.

See the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

! Check your configuration. See “Configuration Requirements” on page 21. ! Make sure the Interplay Media Services

application key is connected to the Interplay Media Services system.

! Install the Interplay Framework for Client

software.

See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

! Install the Avid Interplay Access software. See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and

Configuration Guide.

! Install the Interplay Media Services server

software.

! Install the Interplay Archive service software

and if needed install the Auto Archive services.

See “Installing the Media Services Software”

on page 30.

See “Installing the Media Services Software”

on page 30.

! Make sure an Interplay Media Services

administrator account is setup on Avid Unity.

See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

! Mount workspaces. See Avid Interplay Best Practices. ! Register the Interplay Media Services

Engine in a workgroup.

See “Registering the Media Services Engine in

an Avid Interplay Workgroup” on page 33.

Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets

Archiving and Restoring Assets Check List (Continued)

Task Section Reference

! Set e-mail notification for the Interplay

Media Services and let the Avid Interplay Administrator authenticate users during log in.

! Install Avid Interplay Archive and Avid

Interplay Restore services.

See “Configuring the Media Services Engine”

on page 36.

See “Installing a Media Services Service” on

page 62.

! Register the Interplay Provider. See “Registering the Provider” on page 66. ! Connect the Provider to the Service. See “Connecting a Provider to the Service

Software” on page 68.

! Start the Interplay Archive and Restore

Service software.

See “Starting the Media Services Service

Software” on page 72.

! Verify the services are connected. See “Verifying a Service is Connected” on

page 74.

! Configure the Interplay Archive services in

Avid Interplay Framework

See “Configuring the Archive Services” on

page 75.

! Create a Profile. See “Creating Profiles” on page 85. ! Connect to the Interplay Archive database. See “Connecting to the Archive Database” on

page 83.

! Configure the Avid editing system. See “Connecting to the Media Services Engine”

on page 104.

! Perform an archive or restore of assets. See “Using the Archive Service” on page 103.

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Check List for Using ProEncode

For the encoding process, the following table provides a check list of steps for installing and configuring the Interplay Media Services system in an Avid Unity environment. The check list also provides references where to find more information about each step. For additional information about installing encoding software, see “Installing Encoding Applications” on

page 149.

ProEncode Check List

Task Section Reference

! Check your configuration. See “Configuration Requirements” on page 21 and

“Setting Up ProEncode Client and Providers” on page 124.

! Make sure the Interplay Media Services

application key is connected to the Media Services server.

! Install the Interplay Framework for Client

software.

See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

! Install the Avid Interplay Access software. See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and

Configuration Guide.

! Install the encoding software. See “Installing Encoding Applications” on

page 149.

! Install the Interplay Media Services server

software.

See “Installing the Media Services Software” on

page 30.

! Install the ProEncode provider software. See “Installing the Media Services Software” on

page 30.

! Make sure an Interplay Media Services

administrator account is setup on Avid Unity.

See the Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

! Mount workspaces. See Avid Interplay Best Practices. ! Register the Interplay Media Services Engine

in a workgroup.

! Set e-mail notification for the Media Services

Engine and let the Avid Interplay Administrator authenticate users during log in.

See “Registering the Media Services Engine in an

Avid Interplay Workgroup” on page 33.

See “Configuring the Media Services Engine” on

page 36.

! Install the ProEncode service. See “Installing a Media Services Service” on

page 62.

Starting the Interplay Media Services Engine

ProEncode Check List (Continued)

Task Section Reference

! Register the ProEncode provider. See “Registering the Provider” on page 66. ! Connect the Provider to the Service. See “Connecting a Provider to the Service

Software” on page 68.

! Start the ProEncode Service software. See “Starting the Media Services Service

Software” on page 72.

! Verify the ProEncode service is connected. See “Verifying a Service is Connected” on page 74. ! Create a Profile. See “Creating Profiles” on page 85. ! Install Avid Interplay ProEncode Client See “Setting Up a ProEncode Client” on page 127. ! Perform an encode. See “Using Avid Interplay ProEncode” on

page 123.

Starting the Interplay Media Services Engine

After installing the Interplay Media Services software, you can start the Media Services Engine.

To start the Interplay Media Services Engine:

t Click Start and select Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Media Services.

The Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

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Chapter 2

Interplay Media Services Installation and Configuration

This chapter describes how to:

• Installing the Media Services Software

• Registering the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup

• Configuring the Media Services Engine

Chapter 2 Interplay Media Services Installation and Configuration

Installing the Media Services Software

Before you install the Interplay Media Services software and related software, see the check lists provided in “Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services System” on page 15.

If this is the first time you are installing the Media Services Engine you need to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express before you install the Media Services Engine. For installation procedures, see “Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express” on page 155.

To install the Interplay Media Services and related software:

1. Insert the Avid Interplay Installation DVD into the DVD drive on the Media Services server.

The Main Menu window opens.

2. Click Servers.

3. Click Avid Interplay Media Services on the Install Servers window. The Install Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

4. Click Avid Interplay Media Services.

Installing the Media Services Software

The second Install Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

5. Install the following components on the Interplay Media Services server:

- Avid Interplay Framework for Client — the installer automatically installs the components required for the Media Services Engine. When the system asks for a workgroup name, type the name of the workgroup you set up on the Avid Interplay server.

- Avid Interplay Access — required to configure the Media Services Engine with the Avid Interplay server. This also installs the Avid Interplay Administrator software.

- Avid Interplay Media Services — installs the Interplay Media Services Engine. This installation requires a restart of the system, so you might want to install it last.

During the installation, if an Avid Interplay Media Services database already exist on the server, the “Interplay Database” dialog box opens. Select one of the following:

- Overwrite current database—if you want to remove all users, providers, and services.

- Upgrade current database (default)—to use the existing database.

If you are performing an upgrade, you do not have to register existing media services, such as Interplay Transcode. However, if you are upgrading from v1.0 to v1.1 you must uninstall the Archive service using the Admin Tool on the Avid Interplay Media Services window. To

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uninstall the Archive service you must first remove all archive profiles and providers after you install v1.1. You can then re-install and register the provider, and re-create the profiles. For information, see “Installing Services and Registering Providers” on page 61.

6. Restart the system.

7. After you restart the system, return to the Install Servers window and click Avid Interplay Media Services.

The first Install Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

8. Install the following software on the Media Services system, as needed:

To improve performance you can install these software components on another system.

- Avid Interplay Transcode — installs the Transcode service software.

- Avid Interplay ProEncode Provider — before installing the ProEncode provider

software on an encoding system, you must first install the encoding software. This installation requires a restart of the system.

- Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer — installs the

Avid Interplay Auto Media Services. The Avid Interplay Auto Archive installation includes the Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer services.

- Avid Interplay Archive — installs on Archive provider. You can install the Archive

provider on the same system as the Interplay Media Services Engine, because the SQL 2005 software is used. This installation requires a restart of the system.

Registering the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup

- Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status tool — installs on a standalone system to let you monitor both Avid Interplay Transfer and Media Services Engine jobs. You don’t need to install this software on the Media Services system as the function is built into the Media Services Engine software.

9. Register the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay workgroup. See “Registering

the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup” on page 33.

For information on configuring Media Services Engine and services, see “Installing Services

and Registering Providers” on page 61.

Registering the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup

Before you can use any Media Services Engine services, you must register the Media Services Engine in an Interplay workgroup by opening the Avid Interplay Administrator and identifying the system that runs the Media Services Engine. After you register the Media Services Engine, the Media Services and Transfer Status tool automatically connects to the Media Services Engine.

If you are performing an upgrade, you do not have to register existing Media Services Engines.

To register the Media Services Engine for the workgroup environment:

1. Click Start and select Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Access Utilities > Avid Interplay Administrator.

The Avid Interplay Administrator opens.

2. Click Server Hostname Settings in the Site Settings area.

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The following illustration shows the Site Settings area of the Avid Interplay Administrator.

Server Hostname Settings icon

The Server Hostname Settings window opens.

3. In the Interplay Media Services Settings area, type the name of the system that runs the Media Services Engine and click Apply Changes.

Interplay Media Services Engine server name

While you have the Server Hostname Settings window open, it is a good time to check whether you have entered the name of the workgroup in the Workgroup and MediaIndexer Settings area of the window. The Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist applications use this setting to locate the Media Indexer that is used to monitor shared storage.

Registering the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup

4. (Option) Near the center of the Server Hostname Settings window, make sure your Workgroup name is in the Workgroup Name field. Type the workgroup name if necessary. This field is case sensitive.

5. (Option) Click Check MediaIndexer to check whether the Media Indexer that monitors shared storage is running.

If the Media Indexer is running, the system returns the name of the High Availability group that the Media Indexer is associated with and the name of the workgroup.

6. Click Log out and close the Avid Interplay Administrator.

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Configuring the Media Services Engine

After installing the Media Services Engine software, you can configure the Media Services Engine to send e-mail notifications about the status of jobs. You can also identify the workgroup’s Avid Interplay Server. By identifying the Avid Interplay Server, when you log in to the Media Services Engine, the Media Services user information is updated with the user information in the Avid Interplay Administrator.

To configure the Interplay Media Services Engine for e-mail notification and user information:

1. Click Start and select Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Media Services. The Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

2. Click the Settings button. The Avid Interplay Media Services Engine Settings dialog box opens.

3. Type localhost in the Database Computer Name text box.

4. In the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server text box, type the name of your local mail server (for example, mail.mycompany.com). If you don’t know the name of your local mail server, ask your network administrator.

5. In the From Address text box, type an e-mail address for the Media Services Engine. For example, broker@mycompany.com.

Configuring the Media Services Engine

6. (Option) You can configure an SMTP Username and SMTP Password if your network supports secure e-mail. These settings give the Media Services Engine a name and password so that is can successfully send e-mail notification. If a network does not use secure e-mail, the settings do not apply and are disregarded.

The Clean Start option is reserved for future use. Make sure it is set to No.

7. In the Interplay Engine Hostname text box, type the host name of the Avid Interplay Server.

If this text box is left blank, the Media Services user information in the Avid Interplay Administrator is not used for authentication during log in.

8. Click OK. The Avid Interplay Media Services Engine Settings dialog box closes.

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Chapter 3

Using the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

This chapter explains how to use the Media Services and Transfer Status tool and contains the following topics:

• Opening the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

• Media Services and Transfer Status Tool User Interface

• Using the Jobs Page

• Understanding the Providers Page

• Understanding the Services Page

• Understanding the Users Page

For an overview of the Media Services and Transfer Status tool, see “Understanding the

Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 17.

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Opening the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

The Media Services and Transfer Status tool can be used on any computer that has an internet connection to a computer running the Media Services Engine. Media Services clients include the Media Services and Transfer Status tool software.

To use the Media Services and Transfer Status tool on a standalone system requires the installation of the Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status software. For information, see “Installing the Media Services Software” on page 30.

To open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool:

1. Do one of the following:

t From the Avid Interplay Media Services window, click Admin Tool. t From the Avid Interplay Access application, select Tools > Interplay Media

Services Status.

t From the Avid Interplay Administrator, in the Site Settings area, click the Interplay

Media Services icon. When you open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool from the Avid Interplay Administrator, the name is “Interplay Media Services.”

The Media Services and Transfer Status tool login window opens.

2. Type your Username and Password. See “Understanding the Users Page” on page 56.

3. Type the host name of the system on which the Media Services Engine resides in the Media Services Host text box.

The Media Services host name is the name of the computer that the Media Services Engine runs on. You can find the host name in the Name field of the Avid Interplay Media Services window. Previously typed host names are available from the Media Services Host menu.

Opening the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

4. Click the Login button. If the Username and password are accepted, the Jobs page opens.

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Media Services and Transfer Status Tool User Interface

The Media Services and Transfer Status tool user interface is made up of five pages. The tab selected determines which page of the Media Services and Transfer Status tool is displayed. The page displayed determines the Media Services and Transfer Status tool’s functional mode and which of the mode-related controls — also referred to as pages — are displayed. The pages are described in the following table:

Media Services Status Administration Tool Pages

Page Description Section Reference

Jobs Displays the status and other information about jobs

submitted to the Media Services Engine. Lets you cancel or retry jobs, depending on your level of privilege.

Providers Displays information about systems that are running

Media Services provider software. Lets you register and delete providers, depending on your level of privilege.

Services Displays a list of services and service information.

Lets you install and delete services.

Users Displays a list of user accounts. Lets you create and

delete accounts, depending on your level of privilege.

Profiles Lets you create templates to use when performing

an operation.

Using the Jobs Page

The Jobs page displays information about Media Services jobs and lets you cancel, delete, and retry jobs. The Jobs page opens by default after you log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

See “Using the Jobs Page” on

page 42.

See “Understanding the

Providers Page” on page 51.

See “Understanding the

Services Page” on page 54.

See “Understanding the Users

Page” on page 56.

See “Creating Profiles” on

page 85.

The following topics describe the options available from the Jobs page:

• Jobs Page Information

• Customizing the Jobs Page Columns

• Filtering the Jobs List

• Viewing Details About a Job

• Purging the Jobs List

• Prioritizing a Job

• Canceling a Job

• Deleting a Job

• Retrying a Job

• Exporting the Jobs List

Jobs Page Information

The Jobs page displays information about jobs submitted to the Media Services Engine. The following table describes the information displayed on the Jobs page.

Jobs Page Information

Jobs Page Column Description

Using the Jobs Page

Status The colors and icons in the display indicate the status of the job:

• Yellow bar with no icon = Job is processing.

• Green bar with Check Mark icon = Job is completed.

• Gray bar with Stop icon = Job has been canceled.

• Caution icon = Job has failed with an error.

• Gray bar with no icon = Job is pending or is in a queue.

Service The name of the service to which the job was sent.

Job Name The file name submitted by the client to Media Services Engine. This might have

a suffix — determined by the particular service — appended to it.

Administrators can view information about all jobs, whereas users

without administrator privileges can view all jobs, but can only see the username and clip names of their own jobs.

Job ID A number automatically generated by the Media Services Engine.

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Jobs Page Information (Continued)

Jobs Page Column Description

User The name of the user who submitted the job. For example, transcode jobs display

the Avid editing system host name.

Administrators can view information about all jobs, whereas users

without administrator privileges can view all jobs, but can only see the username and clip names of their own jobs.

Progress (%) The percentage of the job completed.

Priority The priority of the job, as submitted by the client.

Submit Time The date and time the job was submitted by the client to the Media Services

Engine.

Start Time The date and time that the provider started the job.

End Time The date and time that the provider reports the job is complete.

Profile Name Indicates if a profile was used and displays the profile’s name.

Customizing the Jobs Page Columns

The Media Services and Transfer Status tool provides options to customize the columns displayed on the Jobs page.

To customize which columns display on the Jobs page:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

The Jobs page opens by default after you log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

2. In the Tools area, click Customize columns. The Choose Columns dialog box opens.

3. Select the name of the columns you want to display.

4. Click OK. The columns change to show the selections.

5. (Option) Click and drag a column heading to a new location.

Filtering the Jobs List

By default, the Jobs list displays all jobs that the Media Services Engine is currently monitoring. You can customize your view to show only your jobs, to show jobs for a specific service, or to show only jobs in a selected state.

To customize the Jobs list:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

The Jobs page opens by default after you log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

2. In the Filters area, click the Service menu, and select a service.

3. In the Filters area, click the User menu, and select All Users or a specific user name.

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Users with Administrator privileges are allowed to cancel or delete any job. Users not having administrator privileges can only cancel or delete jobs submitted by that user.

4. In the Filters area, click the Status menu, and select one of the following:

- All States — Displays all jobs with their current status.

- Processing — Displays only jobs that are currently being processed.

- Completed — Displays only jobs that have been successfully processed.

- Canceled — Displays only jobs that have been canceled by a user with

administrator privileges.

- Error — Displays only jobs that have stopped with an error.

- Pending — Displays only jobs that are waiting to be processed.

5. In the Filters area, click the Priority and select one of the following:

- ALL — Displays all priority jobs.

- > — Displays all priority jobs greater than the number indicated.

- < — Displays all priority jobs less than the number indicated.

- = — Displays all priority jobs equal to the number indicated.

The Jobs page displays jobs that meet the criteria you selected.

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Viewing Details About a Job

To view details about a job:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. On the Jobs page, select the job that you want details about.

3. Click the Details button. The Job Details window opens.

Drag the scroll bar to view more information.

You must be logged in as the job owner or an administrator to view a job’s details.

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The following table provides descriptions of the type of job information displayed in the Job Details window.

Job Details Window Information

Entry Description

Job Information

Name The name of the file submitted by a client to Media Services Engine. It might

include information appended to the file name, depending on the service requirements.

Service The Media Services service for which the job was submitted; for example,

ProEncode.

State The current state of the job.

Submitted By: The user name associated with the job, as submitted by the client.

Priority The priority of the job, as submitted by the client.

Provider The name of the encoder, as registered with the Media Services Engine.

Requested Provider The name of the provider requested, if one was specified.

Job ID A number automatically generated by the Media Services Engine.

Batch ID The number of the batch containing the job.

Profile Name The name of the profile used for the job, if a profile is used.

Submit Time The date and time the job was submitted by the client to the Media Services

Engine.

Start Time The date and time the provider picks up the job.

End Time The date and time the job was reported as complete by the provider.

Progress The percentage of the job that has been processed.

Notification Displays whether notification of job completed or job error is enabled or

disabled.

Input Parameters

Output Parameters

The list of Input parameters varies for each service.

The list of Output parameters varies for each service.

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Purging the Jobs List

The purge function is available only to users with administrator privileges.

To purge the Jobs list:

1. Log on to Media Services Engine as a user with administrator privileges.

2. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

3. On the Jobs page, click the Purge button. The Purge Jobs dialog box opens.

4. Click the Service menu, and select the applicable service.

5. Click the Submitted By menu, and select a particular user or All, depending on the jobs you want to purge.

6. Select which states of jobs you want to purge.

7. Click the Purge button.

The Jobs list no longer contains the jobs you selected. If a purge fails, a dialog box opens with a list of the jobs that failed to delete and a reason for the failure.

Prioritizing a Job

You can prioritize the order of the pending jobs. The priority number assigned to a job indicates the job’s position in the queue for a specific provider. This setting lets you order jobs in a desired sequence and also move a job to the top of the queue. Priority numbers range from 1 (highest priority) through 100 (lowest priority). The default priority number assigned to each job is 50.

Using the Jobs Page

When you assign a priority number to a job, the actual order in the queue depends on:

• If the same priority number is assigned to several jobs of a specific provider, then all these jobs have an equal chance of executing.

• Priority numbers are relative only to jobs within a given service. For example, a transcode job set with priority 1 might not execute before an archive job with priority

100.

To prioritize a job:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. On the Jobs page, select the job you want to prioritize.

3. Click the Priority button. The Set Job Priority dialog box opens.

4. Click the arrow button to select a priority number. The default is 50. The priority range is 1 (highest priority) through 100 (lowest priority).

5. Click OK. The Priority column displays the new priority for the job.

Canceling a Job

Jobs can be canceled during the Pending or the Processing state. A user can cancel only jobs that have been submitted under his or her Media Services user name. An administrator can cancel any job.

Providers periodically check the Media Services Engine for jobs that might need to be canceled. When a job is canceled, it might take a short time for the job to actually stop and the status change to be reflected. It is also possible that a job might finish before it can be canceled. In this case, a dialog box might open stating that the Media Services Engine was unable to cancel the job.

To cancel a job:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. On the Jobs page, select the job that you want to cancel.

3. Click the Cancel button. A dialog box opens and asks if you are sure you want to cancel the job.

4. Click OK to cancel the job.

The job remains in the Jobs list, but the state changes to canceled.

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Deleting a Job

To delete a specific job or all jobs on the Jobs page:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. On the Jobs page, select the specific job you want to delete.

3. Click the Delete button. A dialog box opens and asks if you are sure you want to delete the job.

4. Click OK to delete the job.

Retrying a Job

You can retry a job that is in the canceled state or error state.

To retry a job:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. On the Jobs page, select the job you want to retry.

3. Click the Retry button.

The Media Services Engine changes the state to Pending and places the job in the queue for the next available provider.

Exporting the Jobs List

You can export the current Jobs list from the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

To export the Jobs list:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

The Jobs page opens by default after you log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

2. In the Tools area, click Export list. A Save dialog box opens.

3. Select a location for the Jobs list file.

4. Type a name for the Jobs list file.

5. Click Save.

Understanding the Providers Page

The Providers page displays information about computers that are running provider software and are registered with the Media Services Engine. You can also view specific provider details and capabilities.

The following topics provide information about using the Providers page:

• Opening the Providers Page

• Customizing the Providers Display

• Viewing Details About a Provider

• Deleting Providers

For information about using the Providers page to register a provider, see “Registering the

Provider” on page 66.

Opening the Providers Page

To open the Providers page:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

Understanding the Providers Page

2. Click the Providers tab. The Providers page opens.

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The following table describes the information displayed on the Providers page.

Providers Page Information

Providers Page Description

Status Indicates whether or not the provider is connected to the Media Services

Engine.

Provider The name of the service provider, as registered with the Media Services

Engine.

Service The Media Services service for which the provider has been registered.

Host The computer name of the provider.

Application The name of the service provider application.

IP The IP address of the computer of the provider.

Customizing the Providers Display

By default, the Providers page displays all providers that are registered with the Media Services Engine. You can customize your view to show only the connected providers or providers of a particular service.

To customize the Providers display:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Providers tab. The Providers page opens.

3. In the Filters area, click the Service menu, and select the applicable service.

4. In the Filters area, click the Status menu, and select the applicable condition. The Providers page displays providers that match your selections.

Viewing Details About a Provider

To view details about a provider:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. On the Providers page, select the provider that you want details about.

3. Click the Details button. The Provider Details window opens.

The following table provides descriptions of the type of provider information displayed in the Provider Details window.

Providers Details Window Information

Providers Page Description

Name The name of the service provider, as registered with the Media Services

Service The Media Services service for which the provider has been registered.

Host Name The computer name of the provider.

Application The name of the service provider application.

IP Address The IP address of the computer of the provider.

Connected Indicates whether or not the provider is connected to the Media Services

Deleting Providers

Understanding the Providers Page

Engine.

If a provider is connected to the Media Services Engine, the provider cannot be deleted until it has been disconnected and all processing jobs are stopped. You must be logged in as an administrator to delete any providers.

To delete a Provider:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Providers tab. The Providers page opens.

3. Select the provider, and click Delete. A dialog box opens and asks if you are sure you want to delete the provider.

4. Click OK.

The provider is no longer registered with the Media Services Engine. To register it again, see

“Registering the Provider” on page 66.

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Understanding the Services Page

The Services page displays information about the media services that are installed and lets the user install new services or delete services that were previously installed.

For information about installing a service, see “Installing a Media Services Service” on

page 62.

The following topics provide information about the Servers page:

• Opening the Services Page

• Displaying Details About a Service

• Deleting a Media Services Service

Opening the Services Page

To open the Services page:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Services tab. The Services page opens.

Displaying Details About a Service

To display information about a specific service:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Services tab. The Services page opens.

3. Select the service about which you want information.

4. Click Details. The Service Details page opens.

Understanding the Services Page

The specific information displayed on the Service Details page differs for each installed service.

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Deleting a Media Services Service

If the service has been registered on the Providers page, you must first delete the provider for that service. For more information, see “Deleting Providers” on page 53.

To delete a service:

1. Log on to Media Services Engine as an administrator.

2. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. For more information, see “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

3. Make sure all providers for the services that you are deleting have been deleted prior to deleting the services themselves. See “Deleting Providers” on page 53.

4. Click the Services tab. The Services page opens.

5. Select the service you want to delete.

6. Click Delete. The service is removed. To add the service again, see “Installing a Media Services

Service” on page 62.

Understanding the Users Page

The Users page lets you create and manage user accounts. The default login for the Media Services and Transfer Status tool is the user name Administrator, without a password. Avid recommends assigning a password to this account after installing the Media Services Engine. For more information, see “Reassigning Passwords” on page 58.

The Users page displays information based on the user’s login profile. A user logged in as an Administrator can view information about all jobs, whereas users without administrator privileges can view all jobs, but can only see the username and clip names of their own jobs.

Adding or changing users with the Users page has no effect if a host name is set in the Interplay Engine Hostname setting in the Avid Interplay Media Services Engine Settings dialog box. However, you can give a user Interplay Media Services Administrator privileges using the Users page. For information on setting the Interplay Engine Hostname setting, see

“Configuring the Media Services Engine” on page 36.

When you attempt to log in to the Interplay Media Services Engine, and a host name is set in the Interplay Engine Hostname setting in the Avid Interplay Media Services Engine Settings dialog box, the Media Services Engine authenticates the user name and password you provided with the Avid Interplay Engine. If the login is successful, the user name and password are added or updated to the Media Services database user’s table and appear on the Users page.

The following topics describe the Users page:

• Opening the Users Page

• Setting Up User Accounts

• Reassigning Passwords

• Deleting User Accounts

Opening the Users Page

To open the Media Services Users page:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Users tab. The Users page opens with user accounts listed in the User name column.

Understanding the Users Page

Setting Up User Accounts

To set up a user account:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Users tab. The Users page opens.

3. Click the Add button. A dialog box opens.

4. Type a user name in the Username text box. User names and passwords are case sensitive and can contain only letters, numbers, and

underscores. They can be up to 255 characters.

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5. (Option) You can assign a password by typing a password in the Password text box, then typing it again in the Retype Password text box. Passwords are not required.

6. Type the applicable information about the user in the other text boxes.

7. (Option) If this user is an administrator, select the “is Administrator” option.

8. Click Save.

Reassigning Passwords

If a user forgets his or her password, a new one must be assigned. If you forget the Administration password, it must be reset. Contact Avid Customer Support. For more information, see “If You Need Help” on page 12.

To reassign a user password:

1. Log in to Media Services Engine as an administrator.

2. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening the

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

3. Click the Users tab. The Users page opens.

4. Select the user that you want to change the password.

5. Click the Edit button. A dialog box opens.

6. Type a new password in the Password text box, then type it again in the Retype Password text box.

7. Click Save.

Deleting User Accounts

You must be logged in to Media Services Engine as an administrator to delete user accounts.

The user “Administrator” cannot be deleted. If you try to delete Administrator, you receive an error message.

To delete a user account:

1. Log in to Media Services Engine as an administrator.

2. Open and log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

3. Click the Users tab. The Users page opens.

4. Select the User Name for each account you want to delete.

Understanding the Users Page

5. Click the Delete button. A dialog box opens and asks if you are sure you want to delete the user account.

6. Click OK. The user account is deleted.

To re-create user accounts, see “Setting Up User Accounts” on page 57.

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Chapter 4

Installing Services and Registering Providers

Before you can use a service, you must install the software needed by the service, then use the Media Services Engine to register the Media Services Provider, and make sure the service is started. The service software must be installed before you set up the Media Services provider.

When a provider is installed, a service zip file is available that is used to install the service into the Media Services Engine.

These tasks are explained in the following topics:

• Installing a Media Services Service

• Registering the Provider

• Connecting a Provider to the Service Software

• Starting the Media Services Service Software

• Verifying a Service is Connected

• Configuring the Archive Services

• Connecting to the Archive Database

You do not use the Media Services Engine to configure the Auto Archive. Instead, use the Avid Interplay Administrator and the Avid Interplay Framework services. For more information, see “Configuring the Archive Services” on page 75.

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Installing a Media Services Service

After you install the Media Services Engine and the Media Services service software, you can use the Media Services and Transfer Status tool to install the Media Services service.

For the Avid Interplay ProEncode service installation, you must install the service using the Media Services and Transfer Status tool on the Interplay Media Services server, you cannot use a remote system. This allows the appropriate files that are needed for communication through port 8080 and http to be placed on the Interplay Media Services server. You can install the Interplay ProEncode Provider software on a server other than the Media Services server, however you must have access to the location of the ProEncode.zip file, which is installed with the provider software. You can also copy the ProEncode.zip file from the provider system to the Interplay Media Services server before you install the ProEncode service.

To install a Media Services service:

1. Open and log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Services tab. The Services page displays the currently configured services.

Installing a Media Services Service

3. Click the Install button. The Install Service dialog box opens.

4. Click the Browse button and navigate to the folder containing the service zip file.

- For Avid Archive Service — Archive.zip

- For Avid Restore Service — Restore.zip

- For Transcode Service — TranscodeService.zip

- For ProEncode Service — ProEncode.zip

You can use the Microsoft Windows Search tool to help you locate the folder that contains the .zip file. The .zip files are included with the installation of the provider software. Make sure you have access to the location of the .zip file. You can also copy the .zip files from the provider system to the Interplay Media Services server.

Below are examples of the .zip file folder locations when the providers are installed on the same system as the Interplay Media Services Engine.

- For Transcode Service — C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay Transcode\

TranscodeService

- For ProEncode Service — C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay

ProEncode\ProEncode

5. In the folder, select one of the following files:

- For Avid Archive Service — Archive.zip

- For Avid Restore Service — Restore.zip

- For Transcode Service — TranscodeService.zip

- For ProEncode Service — ProEncode.zip

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The following illustration shows the TranscodeService.zip file selected.

6. Click Save.

The path to the file appears in the Install Service dialog box.

7. Click Install.

Installing a Media Services Service

The service appears on the Services page. In this example the Transcode Service now appears on the Services page.

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Registering the Provider

After you install a Media Services service, you need to register the Media Services Provider.

The Provider page on the Media Services and Transfer Status tool is used to register a provider for a particular service. The provider receives information about jobs and passes the information to other applications where appropriate. The provider also supplies the Media Services Engine with information about the provider, job status, and other information depending on the service.

To register the Provider with the Media Services Engine:

1. Open and log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool on the Media Services system that will run the provider. See “Opening the Media Services and Transfer

Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Providers tab. The Providers page displays all of the currently registered providers.

3. Click the Register button. The Register Provider dialog box opens.

Registering the Provider

4. Do the following: a. Service menu — Select a service:

- Avid Interplay Archive Service

- Avid Interplay Restore Service

- Avid Interplay Transcode Service

- Avid Interplay ProEncode

b. Provider Name — Type the name that you want to use to identify this particular

provider. You can have several providers on your workgroup for the same service, therefore use a meaningful name.

c. (Option) Application Name — For Transcode Providers leave this text box blank,

because the system automatically fills in that value.

The following illustration shows the Register Provider dialog box with the values filled in for a Transcode Service.

5. Click Register. The Provider appears in the Providers page. Notice that the service is not running, as

indicated by the Stop icon in the Status column. You must still connect the Provider to the Media Services service software. See “Connecting a Provider to the Service

Software” on page 68.

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Indicates the service is not connected to the Media Services Engine.

Connecting a Provider to the Service Software

After you install a Media Services service and register the Provider, you need to connect the Provider to the Media Services service software. You can use the following procedure for any of the following Media Services services:

• Avid Archive Service

• Avid Restore Service

• Transcode Service

To connect a ProEncode provider, see “Configuring the ProEncode Provider” on page 125.

The following procedure uses the Transcode service as an example.

Connecting a Provider to the Service Software

To connect a Provider to the Media Services Engine:

1. Depending on the service, do one of the following: t Avid Interplay Archive Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay Archive

t Avid Interplay Restore Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay Restore

t Avid Interplay Transcode Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay Transcode The Service dialog box opens. The following example shows the Transcode Service dialog box.

2. Click Settings. The Provider Settings dialog box opens.

3. Do the following: a. Provider Name — Type the name of the provider you specified in “Registering the

Provider” on page 66. In this example, the name is Transcode2.

b. Media Services Engine Host Name — Type the name of the system running the

Media Services Engine application.

c. Automatically Connect — Select either Yes or No (default) to automatically

connect to the Media Services Engine when the application starts.

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The following illustration shows the Provider Settings dialog box with the values filled in for a Transcode Service.

4. Click OK.

5. Click Connect on the Transcode Service window. The Transcode Service window now shows that the service is connected.

Shows the provider you selected to connect to.

Connect / Disconnect button

Transcode Service is connected

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The Provider page in the Media Services and Transfer Status tool now shows that the service is connected.

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Starting the Media Services Service Software

The Auto Archive service starts automatically.

To start the service software:

1. Depending on the service you want to start, do one of the following: t Avid Interplay Archive Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay Archive

t Avid Interplay Restore Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay Restore

t Avid Interplay Transcode Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay Transcode

t Avid Interplay ProEncode Service — click Start and select Programs > Avid >

Avid Interplay ProEncode Provider The Service dialog box opens. The following example shows the Transcode Service dialog box with the Status as Idle.

2. Click Connect and leave the window open. After the connection is made, the Status line in the Service dialog box reads “Checking

for Jobs,” and the History window displays the message “Connection Established.” The Connect button changes to a Disconnect button. The following example shows the Transcode Service software is connected.

Starting the Media Services Service Software

Transcode Service is connected.

If the provider cannot connect to the Media Services Engine, the Status line reads “Connection Error.” Ensure the Media Services Engine is running, the service is installed, the provider is properly registered, and then click Connect again.

The Providers page in the Media Services and Transfer Status tool now shows that the service is connected.

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Verifying a Service is Connected

You can verify a service is running using the Media Services and Transfer Status tool.

To verify a service is running:

1. Open the Media Services and Transfer Status tool. See “Opening the Media Services

and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Providers tab. The system displays the status of the Media Services providers. In the following

illustration, the Transcode service is connected.

Check mark indicates the Service is connected.

The Auto Archive service does not appear in this list. Use the Avid Interplay Framework Configuration window to verify the Auto Archive service is running. See “Verifying the Auto

Archive Service is Running” on page 80.

Configuring the Archive Services

Before you can create and manage an offline copy of assets, you must configure the Archive services on the Avid Interplay Administrator and in the Avid Interplay Framework.

For details, see the following topics:

• Configuring the Archive Settings

• Configuring Auto Archive Using the Avid Interplay Service Configuration

• Verifying the Auto Archive Service is Running

For information about archiving workflows and important issues, see Avid Interplay Best Practices.

Configuring the Archive Settings

The Avid Interplay Administrator provides Archive Settings for registering the archive server and setting archiving preferences. Archive settings are Site Settings.

To configure the archive process from the Avid Interplay Administrator:

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Archive Settings icon

1. Click Start and select Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Access Utilities > Avid Interplay Administrator.

The Avid Interplay Administrator opens.

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2. Click Archive Settings in the Site Settings area. The Archive Settings dialog box opens.

Database list

3. Select an Avid Interplay archive database from the database list. This example shows the AvidAM database selected.

4. Select one of the following options:

- No — When you archive an Avid asset the first time, the Archive Provider archives

all associated media. If you archive other assets that reference the same media, the Archive Provider archives the metadata but does not archive duplicate versions of the associated media.

- Yes — The Archive Provider archives the associated media each time you archive

an asset. If you delete an asset that references the duplicated media, the system asks if you want to delete the associated media files. If you choose the delete the media, the system deletes all copies of the media.

5. Select an Avid Interplay database from the database list. This example shows the AvidWG database selected.

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6. In the Archive Settings area, do the following: t Archive server name text box — type the name of the computer running the Avid

Interplay Archive Engine.

t Archive Segment size (frame) — type the segment size used for partial restore

operations, in frames. See “Performing a Partial Restore” on page 119.

7. Click Apply Changes at the bottom of the window.

Configuring Auto Archive Using the Avid Interplay Service Configuration

This section describes how to use Avid Interplay Service Configuration to configure Auto Archive. Avid Interplay Service Configuration is an application that is included with the Interplay Framework services, that lets you set and change parameters for each of the different Avid services and applications in your workgroup environment. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Framework User’s Guide.

To configure Avid Interplay Auto Archive service using the Interplay Framework:

1. On any system running the Interplay Framework services, open Interplay Service Configuration:

t Click Start and select Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework > Avid Interplay

Service Configuration.

The Select Workgroup dialog box opens.

The Select Workgroup dialog box does not open if the check box specifying to always select and use this workgroup option was previously selected. When you select this option, the Select Workgroup dialog box no longer opens when you start the application. The default workgroup is selected, and the Avid Interplay Service Configuration window opens.

2. (Option) If the Select Workgroup dialog box opens, select the workgroup you want to connect to and click Select.

The Avid Interplay Service Configuration window opens.

3. In the Directory pane, click the Processes tab and verify that the Avid Automatic Archive, Transcode, and Transfer process is running.

If the Avid Auto Archive, Transcode, and Transfer service does not appear in the Avid Interplay Service Configuration window, then the service is not running or the system it runs on is not properly connected to the workgroup. Click the Hosts tab and make sure that the Interplay Framework services displays the name of the system that the Avid Automatic Archive, Transcode, and Transfer service is running on.

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4. Expand the Avid Automatic Archive, Transcode, and Transfer service entry in the Directory pane.

The system displays the name of the computer running the Avid Automatic Archive, Transcode, and Transfer service.

5. Click the computer name. The Administrator Password Needed dialog box opens.

6. Type the Interplay Framework Administrator password and click OK.

By default, Interplay Framework does not require a password. When a password is used, it is set through the System Configuration Service. Check with your system administrator for the correct password.

The system displays the Workgroup Server Setting tab for the Avid Automatic Archive, Transcode, and Transfer service.

7. Type the Interplay Engine hostname, user name, and password.

8. Click the Service Settings tab.

Configuring the Archive Services

The system displays the Service Settings for the Avid services.

System running the Avid Automatic Archive, Transcode, and Transfer service

Apply button

Service Settings tab

9. In the Configure AutoArchive area, do the following:

- Enable AutoArchive — select Yes.

- AutoArchive scanning interval — type the number of minutes between scans.

- Number of times to retry when encountering an error — type the number of times you want the system to retry after an error occurs.

- Number of clips to submit to Interplay Archive at once — type the number of clips you want sent for archive at one time. The system can better manage the job processing task when the jobs are processed in small batches. The default number is 10 clips submitted for processing at one time. For example, when you are moving 1,000 clips to the AutoArchive folder, the first 10 clips are archived, then the next 10 clips are archived, and so on until all 1,000 clips are archived.

10. Click Apply.

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11. Close the Avid Interplay Service Configuration window.

When configuration changes are made and the Apply or Reset button is not clicked prior to changing a selection or closing the window, a dialog box opens reminding you to Apply or Reset the configuration.

Verifying the Auto Archive Service is Running

The Services page in the Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status tool shows whether the Archive and Restore services are running. The Avid Interplay Auto Archive is not monitored in the Service page. You can use the Interplay Framework services or the Microsoft Windows Computer Management tool to check whether the Avid Interplay Auto Archive service is running.

Using the Interplay Framework to Verify Auto Archive Service is Running

The Avid Interplay Auto Transcode and Avid Interplay Auto Transfer services are also installed during the installation of the Avid Interplay Auto Archive service. These services are all included in the service named Avid Interplay Auto Media Services.

The following topics provide procedures for verifying that the Avid Interplay Auto Archive service is running:

• Using the Interplay Framework to Verify Auto Archive Service is Running

• Using Computer Management to Verify Avid Interplay AutoArchive Service is Running

To verify the Avid Interplay Auto Archive service is running:

1. On the system running the Media Services Engine, click Start and select Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework > Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties.

The Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties dialog box opens. The Status area indicates whether all the Interplay Framework services are running.

Configuring the Archive Services

2. Click Advanced. The Avid Interplay Services dialog box opens.

Auto Archive service

3. If necessary, select the Avid Interplay Auto Media Services service and click Start.

Using Computer Management to Verify Avid Interplay AutoArchive Service is Running

If the Avid Interplay Auto Media Services does not appear, check the Media Services Engine to make sure that the Archive service is running. Auto Archive requires the Archive service. The Auto Archive installer includes Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer.

To use the Computer Management to verify the Avid Interplay Auto Archive service is running:

1. On the system running the Media Services Engine software, right-click the My Computer icon and select Manage.

2. Click the Services and Applications icon and click Services.

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Services and Applications

Avid Interplay Auto Media Services

3. In the Status column, verify the Avid Interplay Auto Media Services are running.

Connecting to the Archive Database

Before you can archive files, you must be connected to both the Avid Interplay database and to the Avid Interplay Archive database. The following illustration shows the Avid Interplay Access connected only to the Avid Interplay database (AvidWG).

Avid Interplay database

To connect to an existing Archive database:

1. Right-click the Avid Databases icon and select Connect to Database.

Avid Databases icon

The Connect to Database dialog box opens.

2. Select the Interplay Archive Server from the Server menu and then select the Archive database.

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In the following illustration, the workgroup name is Docwg and the Archive database is AvidAM.

Interplay Archive Server name

Archive database

3. Click OK. The Archive database appears in the Tree view. The following illustration shows both

databases connected.

Tree view

Avid Interplay database

Avid Interplay Archive database

Safe image

If you click the database name, a safe image displays in the Preview window. Folder icons display as boxes with a brown cast to indicate that they are part of the Archive database.

4. Create folders in the archive database to match your archive workflow needs. In this example, to archive files from the Hunt Club project, a corresponding Hunt Club folder was created in the Interplay Archive database.

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Creating Profiles

Profiles let you set up templates to use when performing an operation. You can create profiles for any of the following services:

• Creating a Transcode Profile

• Creating an Avid Archive or Avid Restore Profile

• Creating a ProEncode Profile

For example, you can create a profile to use with the Transcode service. You select a profile and the Transcode service automatically performs the transcode operation using the correct target resolution and stores the new media on the correct workspace and stores the new asset in the designated target folder.

Creating a Transcode Profile

You can create a profile to use when performing a transcode operation. Transcode profiles are available from the Transcode menu when you right-click an Avid asset.

Transcode profiles let you define:

• The portion of the Avid asset that is transcoded

• Job priority

• Resolution and format

• Workspace for the media files

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To create a transcode Profile:

1. Open and log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Profiles tab.

3. Select Avid Interplay Transcode Service from the Service menu.

Service menu

Profiles area

4. Click Add in the Profiles area. The Add Profile dialog box opens.

5. Type a descriptive name for the new Profile in the Add Profile dialog box. This is the name that users see when they right-click an asset and select Transcode.

6. Click OK. The name appears in the Profiles list and an empty template appears in the

Parameters area.

Creating a Transcode Profile

7. In the Parameters area, select a Mode as follows:

- Whole — Transcode the entire clip. For sequences, transcode the full source clips that make up the sequence.

- Consolidate — For subclips, transcode only the portion of the clip that makes up the subclip. For sequences, transcode just the portion of the clips that are contained in the sequence. This creates partially online media for the related clips.

8. (Option) Select a priority. This value allows you to assign job priorities to different profiles. Priority numbers range from 1 (highest priority) through 100 (lowest priority). The default priority number assigned to each job is 50.

9. Select a resolution from the TargetVideoQuality menu.

10. Type the name of the Avid Unity workspace that will hold the new media files.

11. Save your changes, click Save in the Profiles area. The Save Profile dialog box opens.

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12. Click Yes to save your changes.

You can define several transcode operations under one main Profile name. For example, you can add subjobs to transcode several resolutions using one profile. The system processes each subjob in turn.

To add subjobs:

t Click Add in the Sub Jobs area.

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Avid Interplay Archive and Avid Interplay Restore support only one subjob.

For information on transcoding MultiRez clips, see the “Using MultiRez and Dynamic Relink” chapter of the Basics Guide or Help for your Avid editing application.

Creating an Avid Archive or Avid Restore Profile

Profiles let you predefine the following aspects of archive and restore operations:

• Destination server and path

• Destination workspace (restore only)

• Partition (archive only)

• Assign a priority

• Target video quality

You can also specify whether to perform a partial restore (see “Performing a Partial Restore”

on page 119).

You use the Media Services Engine interface to create profiles. If an Avid editing application is open when you create a profile, you must restart the editing application before the profiles are available in the editor. A restart is not needed for Avid Access and Avid Assist.

For details on creating an Archive profile, see the following topics:

• Creating an Archive or Restore Profile

• Locating the Partition Value for an Archive Profile

Creating an Archive or Restore Profile

To create an archive or restore profile:

1. Open and log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Profiles tab. The Profiles page opens.

Creating an Avid Archive or Avid Restore Profile

Profile tabService menu

3. From the Service menu, select one of the following:

- Avid Interplay Archive Service — to create an archive profile

- Avid Interplay Restore Service — to create a restore profile

4. Click Add in the Profiles area. The Add Profiles dialog box opens.

5. Type a name for the profile and click OK. The name appears in the Profiles list and an empty template appears in the

Parameters area.

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Profiles list

6. Use the values in the following table to define the profile.

Option Description

Destination_Path Archive profile — Indicates the folder in the archive database that will contain the

archived media. This folder is created automatically when archive is executed. The path must include the archive database: AvidAM/

Restore profile — Indicates the folder in the asset database that will contain the restored asset. Format example: AvidWG/Catalogs/...

When setting the destination path select a subfolder not a top-level folder, and use

forward slashes (/). For example, AvidWG/Catalogs or AvidWG/Projects.

Destination_Server Restore profile only — Specifies the name of the Interplay server computer to restore to.

Destination_Workspace Restore profile only — Specifies the workspace where you want to place the

restored asset.

Partial Restore profile only — Indicates a partial restore is performed. See “Performing a

Partial Restore” on page 119.

Partition Archive profile only — Specifies the group for the archive. The group is set by the

FlashNet software. See “Locating the Partition Value for an Archive Profile” on page 91.

Priority Sets the priority for the job submitted by this profile. Priority numbers range from

1 (highest priority) through 100 (lowest priority). The default priority number assigned to each job is 50.

TargetVideoQuality Indicates the video resolution for the archive or restore.

Creating an Avid Archive or Avid Restore Profile

7. Click Save in the Profiles area.

The next time you archive or restore an asset, you can select the profile.

Locating the Partition Value for an Archive Profile

The Partition value in the Archive profile corresponds to a group name in the SGL Flashnet™ software. The Avid Interplay Archive Engine uses Flashnet as the interface between the Archive provider and the archive hardware.

To review the SGL terminology for tapes and groups, a group is referred to as a set of volumes. Each group has a number of associated tapes and each tape is referred to as a Vo l u m e .

The Archive administrator typically sets up and maintains the SGL server and the associated hardware. For information on setting up the system, see the SGL documentation.

When you create an archive profile in the Media Services Engine interface, you specify a group name in the Partition field. For example, the following illustration shows a group named sgl2.

Partition field identifies a FlashNet group

You can log onto the FlashNet server to determine the group names that you should use in the partition field in your Media Services archive profile.

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To determine the available FlashNet group names:

1. Log on to the FlashNet server and double-click the FlashNet Administration icon on the desktop.

The FlashNet Administration tool opens.

2. Click the Group button. The FlashNet Group Management window opens.

Group button

The names in the GroupList column are the names to use when you define an Archive profile. For information on creating groups, see the SGL FlashNet documentation.

Use the Group names when you create Archive Profiles in the Media Services Engine.

Creating a ProEncode Profile

You can create a profile to use when performing a ProEncode operation. The ProEncode profile is available from the Transcode menu when you right-click an Avid asset.

Creating a ProEncode Profile

Currently, there are no profile settings available for ProEncode operations. The settings displayed in the Parameters area are not used.

To create a ProEncode Profile:

1. Open and log in to the Media Services and Transfer Status tool as described in “Opening

the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 40.

2. Click the Profiles tab.

3. Select Avid Interplay ProEncode Service from the Service menu.

4. Click Save in the Profiles area.

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Using the Transcode Service

This chapter explains how to use the Transcode service to transcode assets from within the Avid editing application and from the Avid Interplay Access application. To simplify the process, you can use a profile that determines the parameters to use when transcoding an asset. For details on creating a profile, see “Creating a Transcode Profile” on page 85.

• Transcoding an Asset from the Avid Interplay Access

• Transcoding from an Avid Editing Application

• Working with an Auto Transcode Folder

Before you can use the Transcode service, you need to check that the Transcode service is installed and connected. For a list of the steps to prepare for transcoding, see “Check List for

Transcoding Assets” on page 22.

The Transcode service system requires an application key for any Transcode services that are not run on the Media Services Engine.

Transcoding an Asset from the Avid Interplay Access

This section describes how to manually transcode an asset. For information on automatically transcoding an asset, see “Working with an Auto Transcode Folder” on page 98.

To transcode an asset from the Avid Interplay Access:

1. Click Start and select All Programs > Avid > Avid Interplay Access.

2. Locate the asset that you want to transcode.

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3. Right-click the asset and select Transcode.

The Transcode dialog box opens.

4. Select a Profile from the menu and click Set. The system performs the transcode operation.

Transcoding from an Avid Editing Application

5. (Option) To view the progress of the Transcode job, select Tools > Interplay Media Services Status.

After the transcode is complete, the new resolution comes online on the asset selected for transcoding.

Transcoding from an Avid Editing Application

This section includes the following topics:

• Connecting to the Media Services Engine

• Performing a Transcode from within the Avid Editing Application

Connecting to the Media Services Engine

To connect to the Media Services Engine:

1. In the Avid editing application, select Media Services from the Settings list. The Media Services Settings dialog box opens.

2. Fill in the following sections:

- Select the “Media Services are Available” option.

- Broker — Type the name of the system running the Media Services Engine.

- Type your user name and password. This user name can be one set up explicitly in

Media Services Engine by the Media Services administrator. It can also be any valid Avid Interplay user name. For example, you can use the same user name and password that you use to connect to the Interplay Window.

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- Shared Storage — Leave this field blank. This setting is only used for setting up Avid Interplay ProEncode.

- Email address — You can use this option if your Media Services Engine is set up for e-mail notification. See “Configuring the Media Services Engine” on page 36.

3. Click OK.

Performing a Transcode from within the Avid Editing Application

To transcode a clip or sequence:

1. Make sure the Media Services Engine and Avid Interplay Transcode service are running.

2. Select the clip or sequence in the bin or select the asset in the Interplay Window.

3. Select File > Avid Interplay Media Services > Transcode Services > profile name, where profile name is a profile set up on the Media Services Engine Transcode service.

The system performs the transcode operation according to the rules in the profile that you select. See “Creating Profiles” on page 85.

4. (Option) If you have the Avid Interplay Access application installed on your system you can run the application and select Tools > Avid Interplay Media Services Status to view the job progress.

Working with an Auto Transcode Folder

You can identify a folder as an Auto Transcode folder. When you move a clip or sequence asset to the Auto Transcode folder, the Avid Interplay Auto Media Services automatically submits the clip to the Interplay Transcode service for transcoding.

The system does not create a new asset when you perform the transcode. You will have one asset with two resolutions associated with the asset. You can view the resolutions in the Avid Interplay Access or Interplay window.

You do not have to connect to the Archive database before you perform an Auto Transcode operation. The Media Services Engine uses its own connection to the database.

• Preparing the Workgroup for Auto Transcode

• Identify an Auto Transcode Folder

• Transcoding Avid Assets

• Location of Automatically Transcoded Files

Preparing the Workgroup for Auto Transcode

For information on setting up your workgroup for transcoding, see “Installing Services and

Registering Providers” on page 61.

In addition to the Transcode Service application, you must also install the Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer services. These three services install with the Auto Archive installation and are named Avid Interplay Auto Media Services. You install the Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer services from the Avid Interplay Media Services page of the Avid Interplay Installer. For details on installing the software, see “Installing the Media Services Software” on page 30.

Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer services installer

Working with an Auto Transcode Folder

For details on configuring the Avid Interplay Auto Transcode service, see “Configuring

Auto Archive Using the Avid Interplay Service Configuration” on page 77. In the Configure

AutoTranscode area of the Avid Interplay Service Configuration tool, do the following:

• Enable AutoTranscode — select Yes.

• AutoTranscode scanning interval — type the number of minutes between scans.

• Number of times to retry when encountering an error — type the number of times you want the system to retry after an error occurs.

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• Number of clips to submit to Interplay Transcode at once — type the number of clips you want sent for transcode at one time. The system can better manage the job processing task when the jobs are processed in small batches. The default number is 10 clips submitted for processing at one time. For example, when transcoding 1,000 clips to the Auto Transcode folder, the first 10 clips are transcoded, then the next 10 clips are transcoded, and so on until all 1,000 clips are transcoded.

You can verify the Avid Interplay Auto Media Services are running, see “Verifying the Auto

Archive Service is Running” on page 80.

Identify an Auto Transcode Folder

You must be logged in as an Administrator on the Avid Interplay Access to create an Auto Transcode folder in the Avid Interplay database.

To set up an Auto Transcode folder:

1. Create a folder (or select an existing folder) in the Avid Interplay database, using the Avid Interplay Access.

The following illustration shows a folder named Auto Transcode. You can use any name that fits your workflow.

2. Right-click the folder and select Set AutoTranscode.

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The Set AutoTranscode dialog box opens.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Viewing User Guides on the Interplay Portal

Accessing the Online Library

How to Order Documentation

Avid Training Services

Revision History

Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services System

Software Components

Understanding the Media Services Engine Software

Understanding the Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

Understanding the Standalone Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

Understanding the Various Media Services

Avid Interplay Archive

Avid Interplay Transcode

Avid Interplay ProEncode

Configuration Requirements

International Character Support

Check List for Transcoding Assets

Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets

Check List for Using ProEncode

Starting the Interplay Media Services Engine

Interplay Media Services Installation and Configuration

Installing the Media Services Software

Registering the Media Services Engine in an Avid Interplay Workgroup

Configuring the Media Services Engine

Using the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

Opening the Media Services and Transfer Status Tool

Media Services and Transfer Status Tool User Interface

Using the Jobs Page

Jobs Page Information

Customizing the Jobs Page Columns

Filtering the Jobs List

Viewing Details About a Job

Purging the Jobs List

Prioritizing a Job

Canceling a Job

Deleting a Job

Retrying a Job

Exporting the Jobs List

Understanding the Providers Page

Opening the Providers Page

Customizing the Providers Display

Viewing Details About a Provider

Deleting Providers

Understanding the Services Page

Opening the Services Page

Displaying Details About a Service

Deleting a Media Services Service

Understanding the Users Page

Opening the Users Page

Setting Up User Accounts

Reassigning Passwords

Deleting User Accounts

Installing Services and Registering Providers

Installing a Media Services Service

Registering the Provider

Connecting a Provider to the Service Software

Starting the Media Services Service Software

Verifying a Service is Connected

Configuring the Archive Services

Configuring the Archive Settings

Configuring Auto Archive Using the Avid Interplay Service Configuration

Verifying the Auto Archive Service is Running

Using the Interplay Framework to Verify Auto Archive Service is Running

Using Computer Management to Verify Avid Interplay AutoArchive Service is Running

Connecting to the Archive Database

Creating Profiles

Creating a Transcode Profile

Creating an Avid Archive or Avid Restore Profile

Creating an Archive or Restore Profile

Locating the Partition Value for an Archive Profile

Creating a ProEncode Profile

Using the Transcode Service