User`s guide

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Working with a K2 Media Server Overview
Avid Interplay Transfer supports ingest and send to playback of SD and HD media using the
FTP protocol to and from a Grass Valley™ K2 media server.
A complete end-to-end workflow for Long GOP XDCAM HD assets is available using
either an Avid AirSpeed Multi Stream device, an Omneon, or a Grass Valley K2 media
server. Long GOP XDCAM HD media is ingested and available for editing using an Avid
editing application, and then you use Send to Playback to send the OP1a file to a supported
device for playback. The MPEG stream is XDCAM compliant.
This document covers the workflow for the Grass Valley K2 media server. It also covers SD
media.
During an ingest operation, OP1A MXF streams are sent using FTP to the Interplay Transfer
engine from a K2™ server. The stream is read and parsed by appropriate Interplay
Transfer’s Generic FTP modules and then stored in an Avid Unity ISIS shared storage
environment.
During a send to playback operation, the media is read from Avid Unity ISIS shared storage
environment and multiplex into OP1A MXF streams, that are sent to a specified target
playback device or server using FTP.
Important Information
Before you add a K2 media server in your workgroup environment, you need to consider
some important information provided in these sections:
• “Information About FTP Server Profiles” on page 3
• “Information About Send to Playback” on page 3
• “Information About Ingesting” on page 4
• “K2 Audio Tracks Ingest Limitations” on page 4
• “K2 User Accounts and Folder Permissions” on page 5