Specifications

Contents

Introduction 15

Overview 16

Licensing Requirements 17

Supported Avid Products 17

Supported Vantage Components 18

AAF Encoder Support for Avid Interplay 18

Interplay Notifier (Notify Action) Support for Avid Interplay 19

Telestream Transfer Engine Send to Playback 19

Telestream Transfer Engine Ingest 19

Network Adapters for Use with Avid Shared Storage 20

International Character Support 20

Vantage to Avid—Delivering Encoded Media to Avid Systems 21

Avid AAF Encoder 23

TransferManager/Transfer Engine Encoder 23

MXF Encoder 23

MXF Formats 24

Final Cut / Avid QuickTime Encoder and QuickTime (Telestream) Encoder 24

Transcoding and Direct Convert Formats 24

Legacy Avid-Compatible Encoders 25

Notify Action 25

Avid to Vantage—Exporting Media to Vantage 26

Accessing Avid Unity Storage 27

Using the Telestream Playback Service for Avid Interplay Transfer Engine 27

Avid Data Track Support 27

Transcode/Direct Convert Formats 27

Processing QuickTime Movies Exported from Media Composer 28

QuickTime Reference Movie Export Requirements 28

Processing MXF OP1a Files Exported from Media Composer 28

Avid Export (Media Composer 7 and later) 28

Avid AMA File Export (Media Composer 8 and later) 28

Processing Simplified AAF Files Exported from Media Composer 29

Pipeline—Network Video Capture and Playout 30

Encoding Formats 30