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Acquiring Media at Multiple Resolutions
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Acquiring Media at Multiple Resolutions
In an Avid Interplay environment, you can create and store multiple resolutions of the same
media. These can be acquired in several ways. You can configure a workgroup to ingest both
high and low-res media simultaneously. You can also first create master clips with high-res
media, and if your hardware permits it, you can re-capture these clips as low-res proxies. If
multi-rez batch capturing is not supported, you must use your Avid software to transcode to a
low-res proxy.
Dual-Ingest Configuration
In a newsroom environment, you can use CaptureManager
™
or Interplay Capture, an AirSpeed
®
or AirSpeed Multi Stream system, and an Avid Interplay Low-Res Encoder to simultaneously
ingest high-resolution and low-resolution versions of the same master clip. You can use an
AirSpeed Multi Stream to ingest both high-resolution and low-resolution (Avid H.264) versions
of the same master clip.
Batch Capture Multiple Resolutions
You can capture more than once from the same tape at different resolutions and associate the new
resolutions with the same master clip. You can batch capture from any system that has access to
the master clip and original tape. For example, you can batch capture from the same system that
acquired the media originally, or you can use Avid Interplay to check out a clip on another
system and perform the batch capture there.
Capture High-Res and Transcode to Low-Res
• You can use the Avid Interplay Media Services from within your Avid editing application to
capture at a high resolution and then use Avid Interplay Transcode to create different
resolutions of the same clip. Interplay Transcode keeps the same master clip and associates it
with the new resolution.
• You can use the Consolidate/Transcode command within your Avid editing application to
create different resolutions of the same master clip. If you consolidate, your Avid editing
application creates a new clip for each resolution. If you transcode, you have the choice of
associating the new resolution with the original master clip, or creating a new clip. See
“Understanding How Clips are Associated with Multiple Resolutions” on page 1251.
Batch Capturing Media at a Different Resolution
Batch capturing lets you create different resolutions of media through the same process that the
original media was captured from hardware. To perform a batch capture, you must have a master
clip containing either a clip log or previously captured media.