Product specifications

4 Using AMA Material in Interplay
This chapter contains the following topics:
• Overview
• AMA on Interplay Workflow
• Viewing AMA Clips in Access
• How the Media Indexer Works with AMA Material
• Configuring the Media Indexer to Index AMA
Overview
Interplay v3.0 and later supports checkin and dynamic relink of AMA (Avid Media Access)
material. The following are two goals for the release:
• Improve the Interplay workgroup aspects of the Avid file-based workflow
• Provide better support for workflows that make use of a large ratio of raw footage compared
to the size of the final show
For example, some post-production shoot scenarios, such as reality TV, use multiple,
heterogeneous cameras, with shoot ratios (unused/used) can that range from 30/1 to 100/1 or
more. This means that every hour of programming can involve perhaps 100 hours of raw media
to process. Processing includes copying the media from camera storage (Optical disk or SSD) to
something more usable by the production system, such as ISIS shared storage.
One way to handle this in the past was to consolidate the recorded AMA media to native MXF
files on the ISIS system associated with the Interplay production environment (such as an ISIS
5000 or ISIS 7000). However, the potentially high shoot ratios mean that a lot of capacity was
used to hold media that might be discarded later in the process. To solve this, the AMA workflow
introduced in Interplay v3.0 uses a second, low bandwidth ISIS 2000 as a parking storage area
for the AMA media. Later, when the material that should be saved is identified, it can be
consolidated from the AMA source to the ISIS production system at full resolution.