Final Cut Pro Projects in Avid Interplay Workflows

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Interplay’s open platform and third-party support allow editors using Final Cut Pro to work on projects side-by-side with Avid systems, with everything tracked and stored in the same place. Promotions departments who use FCP systems to create promos, production companies who start projects on one system and perform finishing tasks on the other, or facilities who prefer cross-platform environments can now all benefit from Interplay’s integration with multiple creative tools. And with the lightweight Interplay Access software client available for the Mac OS, anyone in the organization can find, view, and log media from anywhere.

Plug your Final Cut Pro projects into the Avid Interplay workflow and make everyone more productive.

Check in and check out native, unconverted FCP projects. With media residing on ISIS shared storage, Interplay can manage FCP project files just like any generic asset, including tracking and adding custom metadata.

Check in sequences converted to AAF/MXF. Bring in a Final Cut project along with its QuickTime media through the Automatic Duck file-wrapper conversion utility from the Interplay Access plug-in, and the resulting AAF sequences and MXF media will be editable by Avid editors and tracked by Interplay.

Check out sequences converted from AAF/MXF. To work with Avid projects in Final Cut Pro, check out the AAF sequence and MXF media from Interplay with the Interplay Access plug-in via Automatic Duck to perform a file-wrapper conversion to an FCP sequence and QuickTime media.

Get more from your investment. Now you can exchange projects between your Final Cut Pro editors and Avid editors, including Media Composer, NewsCutter, Symphony, and DS, as well as the iNEWS Instinct journalist production tool and Interplay Assist power-assistant system.

Maintain an open environment. Not only can Interplay track and store media metadata from Final Cut Pro projects created on the Mac and make them available to Avid systems, but with the lightweight Interplay Access client, Mac users can also search, browse, log, and shot-list all Interplay-tracked media on their desktops or laptops.

Expand your workflow. No FCP user is an island. Producers, journalists or other contributors using Interplay Access, or assistants and loggers using Interplay Assist, can all help prepare media and shot lists for later editing with Final Cut Pro, ensuring everyone can add as much value to the workflow – and get as much from it – as possible.

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