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AMA on Interplay Workflow

a high ratio of shooting versus footage used in the final production. In this scenario you would

have a multiple ISIS setup; one for the original AMA material and one for your production

material.

Create a folder structure in the ISIS parking area that organizes the material by project and use a

unique name for each new folder. For example, if you have a series of interviews associated with

ProjectA you could create a folder structure such as Project A/interviews/interview1 and store

the media for interview1 in that folder.

Drag and drop all of the material from the media card or disk into the appropriate folder. For

additional information on this part of the process, search for “File Based Media - AMA” in the

editing guide or Help for you Avid editing system.

2. Create a New Bin and Create a Link to the AMA Media on Shared Storage

Create a new bin on the Avid editing application. From the new bin, use the Link to AMA

command in the Avid editing application to link to the AMA material on shared storage. For

information on the Link to AMA process, search for “Avid Media Access (AMA) Workflow” in

the editing guide or Help for your Avid editing system.

After you successfully link to the AMA material, the Avid editing system creates clips in the bin

for the media and you can start working with the material in the editor. If you want other editors

to be able to access the media, you need to check the AMA clips into Interplay.

3. Check the AMA Clips into Interplay

You can use the following methods to check the AMA clips into Interplay:

• Use menu commands or automatic checkin

• Drag assets to the Interplay Window

• Check the files in automatically as part of the profile associated with a DMF folder

For information on checking assets into Interplay, see “Checking Avid Assets into the Interplay

Database” in the editing guide or Help for your Avid editing application. For information on

using the DMF (dynamic media folder), see What’s New for Media Composer v7.0 or the Media

Composer Help.

When you check the AMA clips into Interplay, the Interplay client library creates files that the

Media Indexer can index. The files have a .spaaf (sparse AAF) extension. For information on the

files that are created, see “How the Media Indexer Works with AMA Material” on page 25.