Specifications

Ingesting Media into Avid via Interplay Transfer Engine
Implementing Avid-Telestream Media Processing Workflows
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• Ingest Type—Specify the format of the output media to be deployed into Avid:
AAF: Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is a file format for post production and
authoring. It supports audio, video, image, graphics, text, animation, and other
forms of media. It also supports metadata that describes how to combine or modify
individual sections of media, and supplementary media information.
OMF: OMF Interchange (OMFI) is a platform-independent file format that stores
both media (video, audio, graphics, animation) and the information describing how
the media is edited together to form a sequence, referred to as a composition.
• Metadata Tags—Click Add New Item to create a new metadata item, and insert
metadata tags and their values into the media file.
• Insert Locators—Click Add New Item to create a new comment locator, and insert a
comment into the media file at the specified timecode. These locators display in the
timeline and the comments display in the Markers window of the sequence in
Media Composer.
Smart SD/HD Transcoding Workflow
By binding the Unity/LAN Share Workspace field to a variable, multiple transcode
actions in a workflow (each followed by a Deploy action) can dynamically deliver
encoded media to different workspaces. This flexibility makes it easier to process media
and automatically deliver it to the proper Avid workspace for further processing.
For example, in a smart SD/HD transcoding workflow you can process and deliver both
HD and SD files to different workspaces from a single workflow, on a job-by-job basis.
Figure 45. Smart Avid SD/HD Transcoding Workflow
When you bind the workspace to a variable, you need to specify the workspace name
that you want to deliver to on a job-by-job basis. Use an upstream action to supply the
workspace name to the Deploy action.