User Manual

Uploading Media Using the Remote Upload Service
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The following limitations apply to remote upload:
• You cannot transcode or upload effects and precomputes for rendered effects and titles. You
must render all effects and sequences at the production facility that includes your Interplay
environment.
• You cannot transcode and upload titles. However, if you have a sequence with title media,
checking in the sequence to Interplay does upload metadata for the title with the sequence.
Once the operation checks in the sequence, you can check out the sequence at the production
facility and use the Re-create Title Media command to restore the title to your sequence. For
information on how to generate title media, see “Re-creating Title Media” on page 442.
• You cannot transcode and upload clips and sequences with alpha channels — for example,
titles and matte effects.
• You cannot automatically transcode and upload sequences with mixed frame rates. You must
first manually transcode clips with frame rates different from the project frame rate.
• You can only transcode and upload audio clips in the PCM (MXF) format. WAVE (OMF)
and AIFF-C (OMF) audio files are not supported.
• Audio transcode defaults to an audio bit depth of 16 bits. If your audio clips uses a different
bit rate you should select the Same As Source setting in the Sphere Upload settings dialog
box.
• Audio transcode defaults to an audio sample rate of 48 kHz. If your audio clips uses a
different sample rate you should select the Same As Source setting in the Sphere Upload
Settings dialog box. You cannot transcode audio clips to a 44kHz sample rate.
• For more information on limitations on remote upload, see “Supported Project Types and
Formats” on page 1230 and the Avid Interplay Sphere ReadMe.
Uploading Media
You can upload clips and sequences at specified resolutions. The remote upload operation
transcodes your media and uploads clips in the background so you can continue working on your
project.
To upload a clip or sequence from a remote client and check it in to Avid Interplay:
1. Open a bin with a clip or sequence you want to upload.
2. Right-click the clip or sequence, and then select Remote Upload.
The Sphere Upload Settings dialog box opens.