3.2
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Getting Started with the Interplay | Administrator
- Database Settings
- Creating an Interplay Database
- Interplay Databases, Folders, and Files
- Creating and Restoring Database Backups
- Types of Interplay Administrator Backups
- Recommendations for Backup Configuration
- Setting the Number of Database Backups to Keep
- Scheduling Automatic Database Backups
- Starting a Backup Manually
- Using an Archiving Tool for Backup
- Restoring an Earlier Version of a Database
- Performing a Partial Restore of an Interplay Production Database
- Creating a Metadata-Only Backup for Customer Support
- Performing a Consistency Check
- Viewing Database Information
- Locking and Unlocking Databases
- Managing Databases: Deactivating, Activating, and Migrating
- Moving a Database to Another Server (Non-Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database and Users to Another Server (Non-Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database to Another Server (Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database and Users to Another Server (Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database Under Low Disk Space Conditions
- Renaming a Database
- Running Database Maintenance Tools
- Identifying the Root Folder of the Interplay Server Database
- Server Settings
- User Management
- Understanding the Central Configuration Server
- Adding Users to a Central Configuration Server
- Setting User Authentication Providers and Importing Users
- Managing Users, User Groups, and User Rights
- Understanding Default User Groups, Users, and Roles
- Adding User Groups
- Adding Users Manually
- Viewing and Setting Attributes
- Understanding Standard Roles and Default Rights
- Viewing and Changing Roles
- Viewing and Setting Authentication Providers for Individual Users
- Deleting Users and User Groups
- Removing Users from User Groups
- Managing Database Roles
- Guidelines for User Management
- Site Settings
- Defining Property Layouts
- Setting the Resolutions Available for Display
- Creating Custom Properties
- Configuring Remote Workgroups
- Configuring Categories
- Setting Server Hostnames and the Workgroup Name
- Interplay Media Services View
- Interplay Transfer Status View
- Interplay Transfer Settings View
- Workgroup Transfer Presets View
- Specifying Remote Servers for Asset Tracking
- Specifying Archive Settings
- Setting the Ownership for New Database Folders
- Enabling Interplay Synced Projects
- Setting Options for Deletion
- Viewing and Setting the Metadata Override Status
- Production Engine Bus Connector
- Application Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Setting Options in the Editing Settings Tab
- Setting Audio Mixing Defaults for Access, Assist, and MediaCentral | UX
- Sending a Source to Playback in Interplay Assist
- Setting the Shotlist Start Timecode for Interplay Access and Interplay Assist
- Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct
- Configuring the Frame Locators Display
- Configuring the Restrictions Display
- Media Composer | Cloud Settings
- Setting Instinct/Assist User Options
- Pro Tools Plug-Ins Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Interplay Services
- Troubleshooting
- Reuniting a Split Database
- Installed Components and Services
- Interplay Engine Configuration Files
- Valid and Invalid Characters in Interplay
- System Metadata Properties
- Server Error Codes
- Consistency Check Codes
- Index
Avid Interplay Engine Servers and Services
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Description of Preview Generation Settings in workgroup.xml
• CacheRoot: Path where previews and thumbnails generated by the preview server are stored.
This location is used by the preview server to create a cache of converted images. The
preview server can reuse those images for subsequent requests from any client. To ensure
best performance, this path should reside on a disk that has enough free space available to
hold a reasonable working set of cached images. While the default is inside of the database
directory of the Avid Interplay Engine, it is a good idea to place it on a different disk.
• IconRoot: Path to a directory where a set of icons is stored, usually pointing into the Avid
Interplay Engine installation directory. The icons stored here are used by the Preview Server
if, for example, a thumbnail generation failed or if an asset has an unknown format or is not
an image/video file.
• ServerEnableDiskGuard: If “yes”, the free space on disk is constantly checked and cache
files are purged if necessary. If “no”, cache files are never deleted. “1” and “0” are other
possible notations.
• ServerCacheMinFreeDiskSpace: If the disk guard is enabled it tries to ensure that the disk
cache leaves at least this amount of space free on the disk. The disk guard cannot always
ensure this limit because it works in parallel to the normal preview server operation and
other applications might store data on the same disk. Use a value that is high enough to
overcome spike usage on your disk. The disk guard removes the oldest cached files first.
Values are by default (no suffix) in megabytes, but can be specified in gigabytes ('gb'), or
terabytes ('tb'), respectively ('1gb' == '1024').
• ThumbnailImageFormat: This is the format used by client application to request thumbnails.
This should always match the requests made by the client application. It is advisable to set
this to “png.” Note: The client does not change the request format if this setting is changed.
• ThumbnailsUseAlpha: If “yes,” generated thumbnails use the alpha channel to let a white
background shine through the normal image. Use “no” to ignore alpha channel information.
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Generated thumbnails never contain any alpha information. This setting only renders the alpha
channel into the normal image data.
• PreviewsUseAlpha: If “yes,” generated preview images are delivered to the client with the
alpha channel included (if it is actually displayed is a client option). Use “no” to generate
previews without any alpha channel information.