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AMA on Interplay Workflow
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Before you begin to check the AMA files into Interplay, you must manually create the top level
folder for the .spaaf files and configure the Media Indexer to index that folder. Avid recommends
that you dedicate a specific workspace for the spaaf files. See “Configuring the Media Indexer to
Index AMA” on page 27.
The SPAAF workspace on ISIS must be mounted and accessible by the editing user on the editing
machine. On a Mac OS X system, the workspace must be mounted using the same name as the
workspace. The checkin will fail if this condition is not met.
4. Access to AMA
After the Media Indexer indexes the new files, other Avid editing applications can check out the
clips and work with them. Interplay Access can also search for the files and display information
about the files in the Object Inspector. See “Viewing AMA Clips in Access” on page 22. Note
that Interplay Central, Assist, and Avid Instinct cannot play the material until you transcode it to
an Avid resolution.
5. Transcode the AMA Material
Depending on the bandwidth requirements of the AMA material, you can improve playback and
editing performance on the Avid editing systems if you transcode the AMA material you want to
work with to an Avid resolution. Then consolidate the new material to your production ISIS
system.
Another benefit of transcoding the AMA material is that Interplay Central, Assist, and Instinct
users can now work with the clips.
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You cannot create an H.264 proxy from the AMA material using the Transcode feature on an Avid
editing application. However, you can use Interplay Transcode to create a proxy.
6. High Res Consolidate
If you are working with a transcoded resolution, you can dynamically relink back to the high
resolution AMA material when you want to consolidate a high res version of your final sequence
to your production ISIS system. This allows you to finish the sequence using the original AMA
resolution. In this case only the portions of the AMA material that are used for the final sequence
need to be stored on the production ISIS system.
In a broadcast facility, you can transcode this final AMA sequence to the format that you need
for a send to playback operation. This allows you to create a final version from the original AMA
media. In a post facility, a colorist may use the high resolution AMA material for a final color
correction. Then it can be transcoded for the final output.