Specifications

Using Telestream Playback Service for Interplay | Transfer

Implementing Avid-to-Vantage Media Processing Workflows

Avid Integration Guide

Installation Tasks

This set of steps assumes that your Avid system— Avid Interplay Transfer Engine and/or

Media Composer clients—is already installed and fully operational. If not, complete

that task.

Proceed with these steps:

1. Installing the Telestream Playback Service—Installing the Playback service on your

Interplay Transfer Engine computer.

2. Configuring the Interplay Transfer Engine—Configuring the Interplay Transfer Engine

to work with the Playback service.

3. Managing Transfer Engine Playback Devices—Creating a playback device entry in

the Playback service.

4. Managing The Telestream Playback Service—Creating a playback device for the

Interplay Transfer Engine.

5. Configuring Media Composer for the Playback Service—Configuring Media

Composer to work with the Playback service.

6. Setting up an Avid-Export Vantage Workflow—Creating a workflow where the Watch

action monitors the storage location identified by the playback device entry.

Installing the Telestream Playback Service

Note: Be sure to coordinate with your Avid systems administrator to make these

changes or restart any computers.

Use this topic to install the Telestream Playback service on computers running Interplay

| Transfer including Avid components for Avid shared storage support. Microsoft .NET

4.0 must also be installed. Make sure that the Telestream Playback service version

matches the version of Interplay | Transfer you are using.

Note: If your system has an older version of the Playback service on it, review

Uninstalling Old Versions of the Telestream Playback Service before proceeding.

The Telestream Playback service V3.0.5 or later installer installs 64-bit software for

compatibility with the Avid Interplay Transfer Engine V3.0.5 or later. (Previous versions

were32-bit.)

Follow these steps to install the Telestream Playback service:

 Stopping AvSony & Pluto PlayServer Services

 Obtaining the Playback Service Installer

 Installing the Playback Service

Stopping AvSony & Pluto PlayServer Services

If these services are running on an Avid Transfer server where you are installing the

Telestream Playback service, you should stop and disable them before using Vantage