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Saving Your Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Viewing and Running a Saved Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Searching Across Remote Workgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Finding Other Clips from the Same Source Tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Finding Shared Clips and Unshared Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Using Third-Party Search Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Installing Third-Party Search Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Configuring a Third-Party Plug-In for Remote Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Using the Third-Party Search Plug-in from Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Chapter 6
Logging Events With Locators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Understanding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Adding Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Deleting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Setting Locator Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Hiding Locator Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Moving to Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Exporting Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Working with Long Locator Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Chapter 7
Working with Shotlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Creating a Shotlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Playing a Shotlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Setting the Shotlist Start Timecode for Interplay Access and Interplay Assist . . . . 202
Chapter 8
Working with File Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Workflow for File Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Icons and Indicators for File Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Getting the Latest Version of a File Asset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Changing the Get Latest Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Viewing File Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Checking Out File Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Opening a File for Editing in One Step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Undoing a Checkout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Changing the Undo Check Out Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Checking Out a Newer Local File After Undo Check Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
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Checking In File Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Performing a Checkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Checking In Files With Multiple Checkouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Working with Bundled File Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Updating the Database with Assets That Are Not Checked Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Using Final Cut Pro with Avid Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Checking in a Final Cut Pro Sequence to Interplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Exporting an Avid Sequence to Final Cut Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Sharing a Final Cut Pro Project Between Final Cut Pro Systems. . . . . . . . . . 229
Working with QuickTime Reference Movies in an Interplay Environment . . . . . . . 231
Chapter 9
Deleting Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Protecting Assets from Deletion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Assigning User Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Freezing Folders and Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Setting Reservations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Understanding Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Creating and Removing Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Working with Automatic Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Deleting Avid Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Deleting Avid Assets and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Deletion, Multiple Links, and Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Using the Orphan Clips Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Restricted Deletion of Referenced Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Deleting Orphan Clips Created by Resync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Examples: Using Search with Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Safely Deleting Media When Working with Consolidated Subclips. . . . . . . . . 262
Original Clips, Consolidated Subclips, and Dynamic Relink. . . . . . . . . . . 262
Deleting Only Media Created with a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Limitation: Media Files Displayed as Online but Not Available for Deletion. . .
269
Deleting Offline File Locations for Avid Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Deleting File Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Using the Deleted Items Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
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Access Control and Delete Matrices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Chapter 10
Communicating Using the Messenger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Opening the Message Browser and Reading Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Writing New Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Deleting Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Replying to a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Forwarding a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Chapter 11
Screenshots and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Creating and Printing a Screenshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Creating and Printing a Print Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Exporting a Screenshot or Print Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Chapter 12
Version History and Archiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Using Version History Features with Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Viewing the Version History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
History and Label Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Viewing a File Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Comparing Two Versions in the Version History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Comparing the Current Database File and the Local File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Configuring Differencing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Retrieving Older Versions Using Get Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Getting a Version of a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Getting a Version of a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Undoing Checked In Changes Through Rollback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Rolling Back a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Rolling Back a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Identifying Milestones and Significant Versions by Setting Labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Assigning a Label to an Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Modifying or Removing a Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Archiving from Interplay Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
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Appendix A
Keyboard Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Appendix B
Interplay Access Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Interplay Access Menu (Macintosh Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Edit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Locators Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Operations Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Tools Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Preferences Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Debug Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Appendix C
System Metadata Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Appendix D
Valid and Invalid Characters in Avid Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
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Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of Avid
®
Interplay
®
, a powerful system for managing
media in a shared storage environment. This guide describes how to use
AvidInterplayAccess, an Interplay client application that provides access to the Interplay
database.
This guide is intended for all Interplay end users who need to work with master clips,
sequences, and other assets in an AvidUnity™MediaNetwork or AvidUnityISIS™
workgroup environment. Some tasks described in this guide can be performed only by users
with administrative privileges.
Interplay Access is supported on both the Microsoft® Windows® and the MacOS®X
platforms. When necessary, the guide describes platform-specific differences.
n
The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your
system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the
documentation.
n
Limited number of client applications per user per machine: A user can run only one
Interplay Access session and one Interplay Administrator session on one machine. This
software does not support terminal/server sessions.
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Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention n Meaning or Action
n
A note provides important related information, reminders,
recommendations, and strong suggestions.
c
A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to
your computer or cause you to lose data.
w
A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm.
Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when
handling electrical equipment.
>
This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the
order you select them. For example, File> Import means to open the
File menu and then select the Import command.
This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list
indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.
(Windows), (Windows
only), (Macintosh), or
(Macintosh only)
This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified
operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.
Bold font
Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface
items and keyboard sequences.
Italic font
Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.
Courier Bold font
Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.
Ctrl+key or mouse action
Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the
mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.
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If You Need Help
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If You Need Help
If you are having trouble using your Avid product:
1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It
is especially important to check each step of your workflow.
2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation
was published:
- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,
they are shipped with your application and are also available online.
- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is
supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document
(README_product.pdf) and is also available online.
You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe
because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes
available. To view these online versions, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit
the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/readme.
3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for
maintenance or hardware-related issues.
4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are
available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find
answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates,
and to read or join online message-board discussions.
Viewing Help and Documentation on the Interplay
Portal
You can quickly access the Interplay Help, PDF versions of the Interplay guides, and useful
external links by viewing the Interplay User Information Center on the Interplay Portal. The
Interplay Portal is a web site that runs on the Interplay Engine.
You can access the Interplay User Information Center through a browser from any system in
the Interplay environment. You can also access it through the Help menu in Interplay Access
and the Interplay Administrator.
The Interplay Help combines information from all Interplay guides in one Help system. It
includes a combined index and a full-featured search. From the Interplay Portal, you can run
the Help in a browser or download a compiled (.chm) version for use on other systems, such
as a laptop.
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To open the Interplay User Information Center through a browser:
1. Type the following line in a web browser:
http://Interplay_Engine_name
For Interplay_Engine_name substitute the name of the computer running the Interplay
Engine software. For example, the following line opens the portal web page on a system
named docwg:
http://docwg
2. Click the “Avid Interplay Documentation” link to access the User Information Center
web page.
To open the Interplay User Information Center from Interplay Access or the Interplay
Administrator:
t Select Help > Documentation Website on Server.
Interplay Documentation
The following documents describe how to use Avid Interplay:
• Avid Interplay Best Practices — provides an overview of the major Interplay
components, shows sample configuration diagrams, and describes several of the key
features, such as setting up a user database and using the Avid Interplay Archive Engine.
• Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide — describes how to use
the Avid Interplay Installer DVD to install and configure software on the various
systems that make up a Interplay environment.
• Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide — describes how to set up a cluster configuration
for the Avid Interplay Engine and the Avid Interplay Archive engine.
• Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide —
describes how to administer your Avid Interplay Engine or Avid Interplay Archive
Engine and Avid Interplay database.
• Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Access to browse,
search, and work with assets in the Avid Interplay database.
• Avid Interplay Assist User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Assist for logging,
archiving, and sending to Playback material in an Interplay environment.
• Avid Instinct User’s Guide — describes how to use the Avid Instinct application to write
iNEWS stories and put together simple audio and video sequences.
• Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide — Avid Interplay Media
Services lets you control and automate Transcode, Archive, and ProEncode services.
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• Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay
Transfer to transfer media to and from another workgroup, send finished sequences to a
configured playback device, ingest media from a configured ingest device, and perform
standalone transfers between workstations.
• Avid Service Framework User’s Guide — describes how to use the logging, monitoring,
and management features of the Avid Service Framework applications.
• Avid Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration — describes how to set up and configure
an Avid Low Res Encode system. Includes information on updating the bootset, root
disk image, and configuring a Low Res Encode system to work with CaptureManager.
• Avid Interplay Capture User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Capture, a
newsroom ingest tool that enables automated recordings.
• Avid Interplay Capture Administrator’s Guide — describes administrative concepts,
tasks, and reference material for Avid Interplay Capture.
• Avid CaptureManager User’s Guide — describes how to use CaptureManager™ in a
newsroom environment to coordinate video feeds, schedule feed captures at both high
and low resolutions, and record late breaking events instantly.
• Avid CaptureManager Installation and Configuration Guide — describes how to set up
and configure CaptureManager.
All documents are available in PDF form on the Interplay Portal and also on the Avid
Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport.
Avid Training Services
Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and
convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always
changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery
methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.
For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and
books, please visit www.avid.com/support and follow the Training links, or call AvidSales
at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).
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