Specifications

Ingesting Media into Avid via Interplay Transfer Engine
Overview
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Avid Integration Guide
Overview
To facilitate the automatic ingest of media from Vantage workflows into Avid systems
via Interplay Transfer Engine, Vantage provides these Vantage Transfer Manager
Interplay Components:
• Avid Transfer Manager/Transfer Engine encoder
• Telestream Receiver—an Avid Transfer Engine Data Handler Module (DHM)
Note: Avid’s DHM toolkit enables Vantage to create a plug-in to work with Interplay
Transfer and Transfer Engine for playback and ingest transfers. These transfers are
distinct from standard file transfers in that they convert a sequence to/from a stream
of video frames and audio samples that are transferred over a network. For example,
during an ingest, the Transfer program accepts a multiplexed stream of video and
audio frames and converts the stream into an Avid-compatible clip by wrapping it in
MXF, AAF, or OMF format and checking the metadata into the Interplay Engine.
Figure 32. Logical Vantage-Avid Media Processing Workflow
These components work together to enable Vantage workflows to automatically
submit transcoded media to an Interplay Transfer Engine for background clip ingest, re-
wrapping, and writing to an Avid editing storage volume (ISIS or DAS) for import into
Media Composer by operators.
During Vantage workflow execution, the raw media stream is generated by the Avid
Transfer Manager/Transfer Engine encoder (executing in a Flip action), and transmitted
to the Telestream Receiver via a Deploy action, which passes it on to the Avid Transfer
Engine as it is being encoded.
The encoder creates the media in a video compression supported by Transfer Engine.
Thus, no re-encoding is required when writing the media files to Avid storage. The
Avid Interplay
Transfer Engine
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Media Composer
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SD Streams
Telestream
Receiver
Vantage Domain Avid Systems
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