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Working with Media Files in an Avid Interplay Environment
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Working with Media Files in an Avid Interplay
Environment
If you are using your Avid editing system in an Avid Interplay environment, you can use Avid’s
media asset manager, the Avid Interplay Engine, to share media files between systems. The
Interplay Engine, installed on the Avid Interplay server, is a media database that lets you search
the large number of media objects (master clips, sequences, effects, and any other type of object
that references digital media) in the Avid shared storage environment. You can also use the
Interplay Engine to manage sequences and other media objects whose media is no longer online.
You can then search for these objects, view information about them such as the source tape
name, obtain the source footage, and rerecord or recapture it.
If you want to transfer media from one workgroup to another, you can use the Interplay Transfer
application. Interplay Transfer receives and queues transfer requests from one or more clients.
Transfers are then initiated by the Interplay Transfer server to off load the client. For more
information about the Transfer setting, see the Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User's Guide.
You can also use Avid Interplay Transfer to share files between workgroups. For more
information about the Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Transfer, see the Avid Interplay
Access User’s Guide and the Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User's Guide.
Configuring Avid Editing Systems for the Interplay Engine and Interplay Transfer
Before you can interact with the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Transfer, you need to
configure your Avid editing application with the required Interplay settings.
You must specify the Interplay Server location to let your Avid editing application know where
to look for the Interplay Engine on the network. After you specify the network settings, you can
check in clips to and check out clips from the Interplay database. For more information about
Interplay settings, see “Configuring Interplay Settings on the Editing Workstation” on page 1144
and the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.
The Interplay Server setting is a Project Setting that applies to all users of a particular Avid
editing system. If you want to access another asset manager, you must modify the Interplay
Server settings to reflect the server.
The directory defined in your Interplay Project settings identifies the Interplay folder location to
which you check in media objects. You can check out objects from a different asset manager by
dragging clips from that asset manager to a bin without changing the Interplay Project settings.