User Manual

27 Using Your Avid Editing Application with

Interplay Sphere

When you use Avid Interplay Sphere, you can edit media either stored locally on your system or

stored on an Interplay server back at your production facility or broadcast station. With Interplay

Sphere, you connect to your Interplay server by way of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) using

either a Wi-Fi or a wireless connection. The ability to edit both local and remote media allows

you to create and edit your sequence in the field, using all of the media captured from your

camera locally as well as the media available in your Interplay database.

Using Interplay Sphere for remote editing also provides for the quick uploading of your content

from the field and checking it in to Interplay as you work. The transfer of media assets works

automatically and in the background so that you can continue editing without having to spend

your time creating separate output files, compressing sequences, uploading files to a server, and

checking them in to Interplay.

You cannot perform a digital cut or export sequences that include remote media.

Interplay Sphere is not supported in Avid Unity MediaNetwork configurations.

The remote editing workflow consists of all or some of the following components, depending on

your configuration and needs:

• Installation and configuration of an Avid editing remote applications on a local computer.

• Configuration of Interplay servers to support remote editing.

• Access to a remote broadcast or production facility network using a Wi-Fi or mobile

connection and a VPN protocol.

• Access to an Interplay system using the Avid editing application installed on a local system.

• Ability to browse and use media stored on the Interplay system.

• Creation of remote Avid Media Access (AMA) clips. These clips use a configured Interplay

Common Services (ICS) server to stream media from the remote Interplay system to the

local computer for editing.

• Edit both remote clips and local media in a single sequence.

• Background consolidate or transcode of the sequence prior to uploading remote clips to

Interplay. This creates a sequence with locally-managed clips.