User Manual

Managing Remote Assets with the Interplay Window
1172
Assets can carry two different kinds of markers:
• Reservations: Reservations protect assets from deletion and moving. Assets protected by a
reservation are marked by a Reservation icon in Avid Interplay Access. For more
information on reservations, see “Understanding Reservations” on page 1172.
• Restriction markers: Restrictions indicate limitation warnings on the use of media assets.
Assets that include a restriction are marked by a Restriction icon. For more information on
restrictions, see “Understanding Restrictions” on page 1173.
In Interplay Access, an administrator can set the text color of the names of folders and assets (the
default is black). This colored text is also visible in the Interplay Window.
Understanding Reservations
Reservations are time-based protections that authorized users can set on Interplay database
folders. Usually reservations are assigned by a user with appropriate privileges using Interplay
Access. By default, a 24-hour reservation is automatically placed on a folder whenever a new or
modified Avid asset is checked in to the Interplay database from a bin.
n
The default duration of automatic reservations is set in the Application Database Settings in the
Avid Interplay Administrator.
When you reserve a folder, the system adds a Reservation icon to the folder and sets the
reservation on all of the Avid assets in the folder, including any subfolders and their contents.
The reservation protects the assets — which include sequences, master clips, and all the media
files and metadata files that are associated with them — from deletion and moving.
Reservation icons on folders in the Media Directory panel
Only the owner of a reservation or the Administrator can remove the reservation or delete or
move the contents of a reserved folder. Since folders can have reservations set by multiple users
with multiple end dates, you might not be able to move or delete the asset even if you placed a
reservation on it. Unless one of the reservations expires or is revoked by the user that created it,
only your Interplay administrator can move or delete the asset.