Product specifications

AMA on Interplay Workflow

The following illustration shows a basic AMA workflow for Interplay.

The following sections describes these numbered portions of the AMA workflow for Interplay.

You can perform the operations individually or you can use the Dynamic Media Folder (DMF)

feature in the Avid editing applications to automate the process. See What’s New for Media

Composer v7.0 for information on DMF.

Before You Begin

Before you can perform the third step in the workflow (Check in to Interplay), you must

configure the Media Indexer and the Interplay Administrator tool to recognize the new material.

See “Configuring the Media Indexer to Index AMA” on page 27.

1. Copy the AMA Material to Shared Storage

This step involves copying files from the camera media card or disk to shared storage and does

not have to be performed on an editing workstation.

In order to be able to perform a dynamic relink to AMA material, the AMA material must reside

on shared storage at the time of checkin.

This workflow uses a shared storage system such as an ISIS 2000 as a parking area for the AMA

media. This allows you to store all of the original AMA media on shared storage without taking

up space on your high bandwidth ISIS 5000 or ISIS 7000. This is particularly useful if you have

Media Composer

NewsCutter

Copy

Check in

to Interplay

Hi-Res

Consolidate

Transcode

QuickTime

Interplay Engine

Avid ISIS

5000/7000

Access to AMA

Media Composer

NewsCutter

Interplay Central

Link to AMA

ICS Server

Playback

Transcoded

Material

ISIS 2000

Parking

Storage