Pinnacle Systems Interplay Production Services - 3.4 User Manual

Interplay®| Production Services

Setup and User’s Guide

Version 3.4

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Interplay Production Services Setup and User’s Guide • Created September 22, 2015 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Symbols and Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Production Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Avid Training Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 1 Working with the Interplay | Production Services System 17

Understanding the Production Services System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Production Services Engine Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Understanding the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Understanding the Interplay Production Services and Transfer Status Tool . . . . . . 19

Understanding the Various Production Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Check Lists for Setting Up and Using Service Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Licenses and Production Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Support for Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Support for Group Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Mounting Workspaces for Interplay Transcode and Other Production Services. . . . . . . 26

Changing the Hostname for the Interplay Auto Production Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 2 Production Services Engine Installation and Configuration 28

Check List for Setting Up the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Registering the Production Services Engine in an Interplay Workgroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Configuring the Production Services Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting the Production Services Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting Up a Workgroup for Production Services Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Automatically Connecting to a Backup Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Configuring and Connecting a Spare Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Backing Up the Production Services Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Restoring the Production Services Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Chapter 3 Using the Production Services and Transfer Status Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Opening the Production Services and Transfer Status Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Production Services and Transfer Status Tool User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the Jobs Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Job Information and Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Customizing the Reporting of Service Job Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Customizing the Jobs Page Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Filtering the Jobs List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Viewing Details About a Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Job Details Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Purging the Jobs List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Prioritizing a Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Canceling a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Deleting a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Retrying a Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Exporting the Jobs List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Providers Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Opening the Providers Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Customizing the Providers Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Viewing Details About a Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Deleting Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using the Services Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Opening the Services Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Displaying Details About a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Deleting a Production Services Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Users Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Opening the Users Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Setting Up User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Reassigning Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Deleting User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Chapter 4 Installing Services and Registering Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Managing Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Registering Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Registering a Service Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Configuring a Provider for the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Verifying That a Service Provider Is Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Rules for Upgrading a Service and Preserving Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Chapter 5 Working with Production Services Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Understanding Production Services Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Creating a Service Provider Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Selecting Audio Formats for Copy, Move, and Deliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Modifying Multiple Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Modifying Changed or New Options in a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Exporting and Importing Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Chapter 6 Working with the Transcode Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Understanding the Transcode Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Check List for Transcoding Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Registering the Transcode Service with the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . 105

Connecting the Transcode Provider to the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Starting the Transcode Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Creating an Interplay Transcode Service Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Transcode Profile Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Mapping Audio Tracks in MIXDOWN, DUALMIXDOWN, and CROSSRATE Modes . .

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Mapping Multichannel Audio Tracks in MIXDOWN, DUALMIXDOWN, and CROSS-

RATE Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Support for Surround Sound Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Understanding the Transcode Services Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Understanding MIXDOWN Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Understanding DUALMIXDOWN Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Understanding DUALMIXDOWN Mode with Two Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Understanding CROSSRATE Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Understanding DATAEXTRACT Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Transcoding an Asset from Interplay | Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Transcoding an Asset from an Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Transcoding OMF Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Working with an Auto Transcode Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Preparing the Workgroup for Auto Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Identifying an Auto Transcode Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Transcoding Avid Assets Using an Auto Transcode Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Location of Automatically Transcoded Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Stereoscopic 3D Support in Interplay Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Chapter 7 Working with the Archive and Restore Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Understanding Archive and Restore Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Archive Configuration and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Registering the Archive or Restore Service with the Production Services Engine . . . . 150

Configuring an Archive Provider or Restore Provider for the Production Services Engine. .

151

Configuring the Archive Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Specifying the Archive Server, Segment Size, and Restore Process . . . . . . . . . . 153

Archiving Duplicate Versions of Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Adding AAF Metadata to an Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Defining the Maximum Number of Simultaneous Jobs for Archive and Restore . . 156

Overriding Metadata When You Archive an Asset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Connecting to the Archive Database and Creating Folders in Interplay Access. . . . . . 157

Working with Interplay Archive and Interplay Restore Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Creating an Interplay Archive or Interplay Restore Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Interplay Archive Profile and Interplay Restore Profile Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Locating the Partition Value for an Archive Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Archiving Assets from an Avid Editing Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Consolidating Clips and Sequences Before an Archive Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Deleting Online Media After an Archive Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Archiving Assets Using Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Working with an Auto Archive Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Preparing the Workgroup for Auto Archive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Configuring Auto Archive Using Avid Service Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Verifying That the Auto Archive Service is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Setting Up an Auto Archive Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Archiving Assets Using an Auto Archive Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Location of Automatically Archived Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Searching the Archive Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Restoring Assets from the Archive Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Working with Partial Restore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Performing a Partial Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Relinking Partially Restored Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Viewing Partially Restored Reference Tracks in Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

How the System Defines the Size of a Partially Restored File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Configuring a Workgroup to Use Multiple Archive Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Check List for Configuring and Using Multiple Archive Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Required Software for Multiple Archive Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Terminology for Multiple Archive Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Creating Profiles for Multiple Archive Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Configuring Asset Tracking for Multiple Archive Engines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Chapter 8 Working with the Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Understanding the Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Workflow for Copying Metadata and Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Check List for Copying Assets to Another Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Registering the Copy Service with the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Configuring a Copy Provider for the Production Services Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Using an Interplay Copy Service Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Creating an Interplay Copy Service Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Interplay Copy Service Profile Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Copying Assets and Media to Another Workgroup Using Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . 218

Copying Assets and Media to Another Workgroup Using an Avid Editing Application . 221

Copying Assets During Ingest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Setting Registry Keys for Copying During Ingest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Defining the Maximum Number of Simultaneous Jobs for Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Chapter 9 Automatically Copying Assets to Another Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Understanding the Auto-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Check List for the Auto-Copy Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Installing the Interplay Auto-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Configuring the Auto-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Verifying the Auto-Copy Service is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Understanding the Auto-Copy Folder Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Rules of Auto-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Identifying an Auto-Copy Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Auto-Copying of Subfolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Automatically Copying Assets To Another Workgroup Using an Auto-Copy Folder . . . 239

Automatically Backing Up the Complete Database and Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Changing the Number of Auto-Copy Replication Jobs Submitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Resetting the Auto-Copy Replication Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 10 Working with the Move Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Understanding the Move Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Workflow for Moving Media to Another Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Check List for Moving Assets to Another Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Registering the Move Service with the Production Services Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Configuring a Move Provider for the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Creating a Interplay Move Service Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Moving Media to Another Workspace Using Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Defining the Maximum Number of Simultaneous Jobs for Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Chapter 11 Working with the Delivery Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Understanding the Delivery Service and Delivery Receiver Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Check List for the Delivery Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Registering the Delivery Receiver in an Interplay Production Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . 264

Registering the Delivery Service with the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Configuring a Delivery Provider for the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Creating an Interplay | Delivery Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Creating Profiles for Specific Delivery Providers and Specific Delivery Receivers 272

Specifying User Credentials in a Delivery Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Transferring Assets Through Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Transferring Assets through an Avid Editing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Viewing the Transfer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Relinking Partially Delivered Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Verifying the Delivery Receiver Service is Running Using Avid Service Framework . . 279

Monitoring the Health of the Interplay Delivery Receiver Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Overriding Delivery of Already Existing Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Allowing Third-Party Providers to Directly Connect to the Interplay Delivery Service. . 283

Defining the Maximum Number of Simultaneous Jobs for Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Chapter 12 Working with the STP Encode Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Understanding Long GOP OP1a and STP Encode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Workflow for Background Processing of Long GOP Splicing and Transferring of Long GOP

OP1a Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Check List for Transferring Long GOP OP1a Media in the Background. . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Registering the STP Encode Service with the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . 290

Connecting the STP Encode Provider to the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . 291

Starting the STP Encode Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Connecting to the Production Services Engine From Interplay Assist or an Avid Editing Ap-

plication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Connecting to the Production Services Engine from Interplay Assist . . . . . . . . . . 295

Connecting to the Production Services Engine from an Avid Editing Application . 296

Performing Send-to-Playback as a Background Process from Interplay Assist . . . . . . 297

Performing Send-to-Playback as a Background Process from an Avid Editing Application .

299

Chapter 13 Installing and Configuring Production Services for MediaCentral Delivery . .

301

Understanding Production Services for MediaCentral Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Check List for Installing and Configuring Automation and Consolidate Services . . . . . 302

Prerequisites for Installing and Configuring Automation and Consolidate Services . . . 303

Installing the Automation and Consolidate Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Registering the Automation and Consolidate Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Registering a Provider with the Production Services Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Registering a Production Services Automation Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Registering and Connecting a Consolidate Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Creating a Consolidate Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Chapter 14 Troubleshooting Interplay | Production Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

General Troubleshooting for Production Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Checking Production Services Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Troubleshooting Using Avid Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Archive and Restore Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Finding Solutions to Specific Archive and Restore Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Compatibility of Archive and Restore Services and Third-Party Software . . . . . . . 324

Getting Information About an Archive or Restore Job from the Jobs Page . . . . . . 325

Getting Information About an Archive or Restore Job from a Log File. . . . . . . . . . 325

How the Production Services Status Tool Reports Archive and Restore Operations . .

325

Archive and Restore Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Manually Updating the Status of Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Using a HOSTS File for Production Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Understanding the HOSTS File (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Updating the HOSTS File (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Appendix A Media Supported by Partial Restore and Partial Delivery, Version 3.4 . . 334

Appendix B AVC-Intra Resolutions Supported by Interplay | Production Services . . 336

Appendix C Target Resolutions for Interplay | Transcode, Version 3.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Appendix D Maximum Number of Simultaneous Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of the Interplay®| Production Services system, consisting of the Production Services Engine, the Production Services, and the Production Services and Transfer Status tool.

In Interplay Production v3.1, the product name Interplay Media Services was changed to

Interplay |Production Services. The product name in the user interface and documentation was changed in Interplay Production v3.3.

. The Production 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 through many channels — often at the same time. 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 Production Services Engine and its Production Services and Transfer Status tool are the keys to managing these resource-intensive processes. This software infrastructure manages all of the Production Services. As Avid develops new Production Services, the Production Services Engine manages those services as well.

This guide is intended for all Production 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.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

Symbols and Conventions

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

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), or (Macintosh only)

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

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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.

This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

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

mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

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Interplay | Production. In this document, the pipe is used in product names when they are in headings or at their first use in text.

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Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for

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Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Production Portal

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

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

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

To open the Interplay Production User Information Center through a browser:

1. Type the following line in a Web browser:

http://Interplay_Production_Engine_name

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

http://docwg

2. Click the “Interplay Production User Information Center” link to access the Interplay Production User Information Center Web page.

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

t Select Help > Documentation Website on Server.

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1 Working with the Interplay | Production

Services System

The following topics provide an overview of the Interplay Production Services system:

• Understanding the Production Services System

• Production Services Engine Components

• Understanding the Various Production Services

• Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX

• Check Lists for Setting Up and Using Service Providers

• Support for Restrictions

• Support for Group Clips

• Mounting Workspaces for Interplay Tran

• Changing the Hostname for the Inte

scode and Other Production Services

rplay Auto Production Service

Understanding the Production Services System

The Production Services system is a software infrastructure on which various services are layered. Production Services uses the concept of service providers. A service provider (or provider) is a software service that can perform a particular job, such as transcoding media or archiving assets. The Production Services Engine serves as a broker for services in an Interplay workgroup.

Avid editing applications allow you to work with clips of any frame rate or field motion type

(interlaced or progressive) in a project. Clips that do not match the frame rate or field motion type of the project are known as mixed-rate clips. Interplay supports working with mixed-rate clips and sequences with mixed-rate clips.

Production Services Engine Components

The software used to manage service providers is composed of two major components: the Production Services Engine and the Production Services and Transfer Status tool.

The following topics describe these components:

• Understanding the Production Services Engine

• Understanding the Interplay Production

Services and Transfer Status Tool

Understanding the Production Services Engine

The Production Services Engine acts as a broker to match jobs and their corresponding settings with suitable providers. The Production Services Engine is a repository of job and provider information. Individual providers select jobs that they are able to process according to the service they provide.

For example, a Media Composer system (a client) needs a clip transcoded. It sends a request to the Production Services Engine (the server) with information about the job. The Production Services Engine places the information in a queue. When a Transcode provider is available to do the transcoding, it selects the job, gets the information from the Production Services Engine, and transcodes the media. The Production Services Engine provides status on the job through the Production Services and Transfer Status tool.

The Production Services Engine should not reside on the same computer as an Avid editing application. A provider can be installed on the same computer as the Production Services Engine, depending on the individual provider and the workload and memory usage of the particular computer.For specific information on configuration requirements, see the Interplay | Production Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

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

Production Services Engine Components

The following illustration of the Avid Interplay Production Services window shows the host name A51-WG1-MSE, which is the host name of the computer on which the Production Services Engine is installed.

The Avid Interplay Production Services window provides access to the Production Services and Transfer Status tool through the Admin Tool button. See “Understanding the Interplay

Production Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 19.

e Avid Interplay Production Services window also provides access to Production Services

Th settings through the Settings button. See “Configuring the Production Services Engine” on

31.

page

or information on starting the Production Services Engine, see “Starting the Production

ces Engine” on page 35.

Servi

Understanding the Interplay Production Services and Transfer Status Tool

The Interplay Production Services and Transfer Status tool communicates with the Production Services Engine to let you manage Production Services. The Production Services and Transfer Status tool is installed with the Production Services Engine software.

The Production Services and Transfer Status tool also includes a tab for monitoring transfers that use Interplay Transfer. For more information, see the Interplay | Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.

The following illustration shows the Production Services and Transfer Status tool opened to the login/logout tab.

Production Services Engine Components

The Production Services and Transfer Status tool is installed with the Production Services Engine. You can install it on another computer from the Individual Optional Installers page of the Interplay Server Installer or the Interplay Client Installer, so that you can manage Production Services from that computer. The tool is also installed with Interplay Access, but you need to open the Production Services Status tab and the Transfer Status tab as separate windows.

The Production Services and Transfer Status tool performs three types of functions:

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

• Provides controls for managing services and registering providers.

• Provides controls for managing Production 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 rights (see “Using the Users Page” on

page 77). Administrators can perform the follo

wing tasks:

• Register and delete providers

• View details on any job

• Delete jobs submitted by any user

• Purge the jobs list

Understanding the Various Production Services

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

For more information, see “Using the Production Services and Transfer Status Tool” on page 56.

Understanding the Various Production Services

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

When you install a Production Service on a computer, the installation program installs provider software for that service. You can install the same service on more than one computer in an Interplay workgroup, and as a result have multiple providers for the same service.

After you install a service, you use the Production Services and Transfer Status tool to register the provider of the service. In a workgroup with multiple providers, you need to register each provider.

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

Production Service Providers

Service Description

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

resolution to another. For example, you can use the Interplay Transcode service to create a low-resolution version of a sequence or master clip. For more information, see “Working

with the

terplay Archive service

Avid Interplay Restore service

terplay Copy service Lets you copy assets (metadata) and their media files from one

terplay Move service Lets you move media files from one Avid ISIS workspace to

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

workgroup to another. For more information, see “Working with

another. For more information, see “Working with the Move

Transcode Service” on page 102.

ervices” on page 145.

he Copy Service” on page 204.

ervice” on page 244.

Understanding the Various Production Services

Production Service Providers (Continued)

Service Description

Interplay Delivery service Lets you transfer a clip and its media files or only the portion that

is used in a subclip or a sequence. For more information, see

“Working with the Delivery Service” on page 261 and “Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX” on page 23.

terplay Auto Production Services

• Auto Archive

• Auto Transcode

• Auto Transfer

• Auto Copy

Interplay STP Encode service Lets you offload time-consuming processing involved in

Lets you configure folders and subfolders to perform tasks automatically. You can use the Avid Service Configuration settings to configure the various Auto Production Services.

An auto archive and auto transcode operation includes

subfolders. An auto transfer operation does not include subfolders. An auto copy operation maintains the same folder structure as the source workgroup.

For installation instructions, see the Interpla Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

For more information, see the following:

• “Working with an Auto Archive Folder” on page 174

• “Working with an Auto Transcode Folder” on page 137

• “Automatically Transferring Assets to Another Workgroup” in

the Interplay | Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.

• “Automatically Copying Assets to Another Workgroup” on

page

228

xporting and transferring of Long GOP OP1a media, during a send-to-playback request from the Avid editing application, Interplay Assist, or MediaCentral UX. For more information, see

“Working with the STP Encode Service” on page 284 and “Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX” on page 23.

y | Production

terplay Production Services

Automation

(MediaCentral only) Handles the logic of chaining a Consolidate job and a Delivery job. It triggers a Consolidate job and monitors its status. If the Consolidate job is successful, it triggers a Delivery job. For more information, see “Production Services

Used

By MediaCentral | UX” on page 23 and “Installing and

Conf

iguring Production Services for MediaCentral Delivery” on

page 301.

Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX

Production Service Providers (Continued)

Service Description

Interplay Consolidate (MediaCentral only) Uses the In and Out marks specified for a

loaded clip or subclip to create a new media and asset.For more information, see “Production Services Used By

Media

Central | UX” on page 23 and “Installing and Configuring

roduction Services for MediaCentral Delivery” on page 301.

The MediaCentral Distribution Service, which is used for MediaCentral send-to-playback

operations, is not managed by the Production Services Engine.

Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX

Avid MediaCentral UX delivers workflow tools for media professionals through both Web and mobile applications. It uses Interplay Production Services in the following workflows:

• Send to Playback (STP): STP from MediaCentral UX requires a Production Services Engine and the following services:

- Interplay Transcode

- Interplay STP Encode

• Delivery: Delivery from MediaCentral UX requires a Production Services Engine and the following services:

- Interplay Delivery

- Production Services Automation (for delivering Mark In to Mark Out)

- Interplay Consolidate (for delivering Mark In to Mark Out)

For more information, see the MediaCentral UX documentation and this guide.

The MediaCentral Distribution Service, which is used for MediaCentral send-to-playback

operations, is not managed by the Production Services Engine.

Check Lists for Setting Up and Using Service Providers

The following table provides a list of the various Production Services providers with a reference to the specific check list for each service. These check lists provide a list of the steps to set up and use the various services.

Licenses and Production Services

For a check list for setting up the Production Services Engine, see “Check List for Setting Up the

Production Services Engine” on page 28.

Production Service Provider Documentation

Interplay Transcode service “Check List for Transcoding Assets” on page 103

Interplay Archive service

terplay Restore service

Interplay Copy service “Check List for Copying Assets to Another Workgroup” on

Interplay Move service “Check List for Moving Assets to Another Workspace” on page 248

Interplay Delivery service “Check List for the Delivery Service” on page 263

Interplay STP Encode service “Check List for Transferring Long GOP OP1a Media in the

Interplay Consolidate “Check List for Installing and Configuring Automation and

Interplay Production Services Automatio

“Check List for Archiving and Restoring Assets” on page 147

age 209

Backg

round” on page 289

Consolidate Services” on

“Check List for Installing and Configuring Automation and Consolidate Services” on page 302

Licenses and Production Services

A license is required for the Production Services Engine and most Production Services providers. The license is activated in one of two ways:

• Through a hardware application key (dongle)

• Through software licensing (beginning with Interplay Production v3.3.

page 302

For more information, see the Interplay | Production Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

Support for Restrictions

A restriction is a type of locator that Interplay Assist and Interplay Central users can add to a clip to indicate that use of the clip is restricted in some way, such as a requirement to pay for its use. Previous versions of Interplay preserved restrictions when you used an Avid editing application to check out and check in a clip before sending it to a Production Service. For Interplay v3.0 and later, checkout and checkin is no longer required, and you can send clips to Production Services from Interplay Access, Interplay Assist, or an Avid editing application.

Support for Group Clips

Interplay v3.0 and later supports preservation of restrictions for clips processed through all Production Services, including:

• Interplay Access

• Interplay Archive

• Interplay Restore

• Interplay Transcode

• Interplay Copy

• Interplay Move

• Interplay Delivery

• Interplay Transfer

Workgroup-to-workgroup transfers processed through Interplay Access v3.0 require Interplay Access v3.0 on the receiving Transfer Engine.

Note the following limitations:

• A restriction includes a color value (used for its markers) and the username of the creator. These values are supported in the local workgroup. However, after a clip is transferred to another workgroup or restored from archive, the values default to color = white and username = the login name of the user requesting the job.

• A sequence that includes a master clip with restrictions uses a copy of the master clip. If a user later changes the restriction on the master clip, the copy used in the sequence is not updated.

Support for Group Clips

Group clips are created in Media Composer and other Avid editing applications by using MultiCam features to sync a group of clips based on common source timecode, auxiliary timecode, or marks placed in the footage. A user working in an Avid editing application can check group clips in to and out from an Interplay Production database. Interplay Access users can view information about group clips, including master clip relatives.

Starting with Interplay v3.0, group clips and sequences that contain group clips are supported by Interplay Transfer and by the following Production Services:

• Interplay Archive v3.0

• Interplay Restore v3.0, including Partial Restore

• Interplay Copy v3.0

• Interplay Move v3.0

Mounting Workspaces for Interplay Transcode and Other Production Services

• Interplay Delivery v3.0, including Partial Delivery

• STP Encode v3.0

• Interplay Transcode v3.0, with the following limitations:

- You cannot use CROSSRATE mode to transcode group clips.

- You can use MIXDOWN mode to transcode a sequence with group clips, but only the

camera angle selected in the Avid editing application timeline is included in the mixed-down master clip.

Subclips created from group clips, group clips composed of subclips, and multigroup clips are

not currently supported by Interplay Transfer or Production Services.

Mounting Workspaces for Interplay Transcode and Other Production Services

To use Interplay Transcode and other Production Services, you must mount at least one workspace for each shared-storage system that you use for reading and writing on the provider system. You can mount the workspace as a UNC drive or a lettered drive.In most cases, you do not need to mount each workspace that you use, but there is no harm in doing so. For Interplay Transcode, if you use lettered drives, you must mount the target workspace.

Note the following:

• Starting with version 2.6, the Interplay Transcode service and the STP Encode service require you to choose during installation how ISIS workspaces are mounted: by drive letter or by UNC path. For multiple ISIS workgroups, select UNC paths if the number of workspaces required for the client exceeds the available drive letters. Mount the workspaces before you start the service.

You use the ISIS Client Manager Connection Manager to mount drives. For more information on mounting workspaces, see the Avid ISIS Client Manager Help.

Changing the Hostname for the Interplay Auto Production Service

The following procedure describes how to change the hostname of the Interplay Auto Production Service (for example, if you entered the name incorrectly the first time). You use the Avid Service Configuration Tool. The Interplay Auto Production Service is named Avid Automatic Archive, Copy, Transcode, and Transfer Service in the Avid Service Configuration tool.

To change the hostname for the Automatic Archive, Copy, Transcode, and Transfer service:

1. Open the Avid Service Configuration tool.

2. Open the display for the system running the Automatic Archive, Copy, Transcode, and Transfer service.

3. Click the Avid Automatic Archive, Copy, Transcode, and Transfer service.

4. Change the name and click Apply.

5. Use the Computer Management tool to restart the service as follows:

a. Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop.

b. Select Manage and select Services and Applications.

c. Restart the Avid Automatic Archive, Copy, Transcode, and Transfer service.

2 Production Services Engine Installation

and Configuration

The following topics describe installation and configuration of the Production Services Engine:

• Check List for Setting Up the Production Services Engine

• Registering the Production Services Engine in an Interplay Workgroup‘

• Configuring the Production Services Engine

• Starting the Production Services Engine

• Setting Up a Workgroup for Production Services Backup

Check List for Setting Up the Production Services Engine

The following table provides a list of steps to perform when setting up the Production Services Engine in an Interplay workgroup.

Setting up the Production Services Engine Check List

Task Section Reference

Make sure the workstation is configured as a



server for an Interplay workgroup.

Make sure the Production Services application



key is connected to the server.

Install the Production Services Engine



software and the supporting software.

• Avid Service Framework for Client

• Interplay Access

• Production Services Engine

See your hardware configuration documentation.

See the Interplay | Production Software Installation and Configuration Guide.

Registering the Production Services Engine in an Interplay Workgroup

Setting up the Production Services Engine Check List (Continued)

Task Section Reference

Activate the Production Services Engine



license by connecting the application key (dongle) to a USB port or by installing a software license.



Interplay workgroup.

Configure the Production Services Engine.



• Identify the workgroup’s Interplay Engine system

• Setup auto-purging of jobs

• (Optional) Setup e-mail notifications

Start the Production Services Engine software. See “Starting the Production Services Engine” on



(Optional) Set up a workgroup for Production



Services backup

See Interplay | Production Software Installation

and Configuration Guide.

See “Registering the Production Services Engine

in an Interplay Workgroup” on page 29.

See “Configuring the Production Services

Engin

e” on page 31.

page 35.

“Setting Up a Workgroup for Production Services Backup” on page 36

After you set up the Production Services Engine, install and configure the Production Services providers. See “Check Lists for Setting Up and Using Service Providers” on page 23.

Registering the Production Services Engine in an Interplay Workgroup

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

If you are performing an upgrade, you do not have to register existing Production Services

Engines.

Registering the Production Services Engine in an Interplay Workgroup

To register the Production Services Engine in an Interplay workgroup:

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

The Avid Interplay Administrator opens.

2. Log in to the server for the workgroup in which you want to register the Production Services Engine.

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

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

The Server Hostname Settings window opens.

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

If your Interplay environment includes the Interplay Delivery workflow, to receive transfers you

must add the hostname and the port number of the system where the Delivery Receiving service is installed. For more information, see “Registering the Delivery Receiver in an

Interplay Production Workgroup” on page 264.

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Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay Production Portal

Avid Training Services

Understanding the Production Services System

Production Services Engine Components

Understanding the Production Services Engine

Understanding the Interplay Production Services and Transfer Status Tool

Understanding the Various Production Services

Production Services Used By MediaCentral | UX

Check Lists for Setting Up and Using Service Providers

Licenses and Production Services

Support for Restrictions

Support for Group Clips

Mounting Workspaces for Interplay Transcode and Other Production Services

Changing the Hostname for the Interplay Auto Production Service

Check List for Setting Up the Production Services Engine

Registering the Production Services Engine in an Interplay Workgroup