Avid Interplay Engine

Avid Interplay Assist

The optional Avid Interplay Assist desktop video tool is a cost-effective way to review and log video, select shots, and add locators and comments using ordinary desktops and laptops on the network. Assistant editors, production assistants, producers, writers, post supervisors, directors, graphic artists, and other authorized team members can all contribute without tying up expensive systems.

Key Features:

Streamline communications with on-the–fly annotations
It’s incredibly easy and fast to add comments: just type them in as the video plays. Insert locators to footage and create subclips from the marked locations. Make comments on a rough cut while it plays and frame-accurate locators appear when the clip is opened in editing system.

Make sure everyone knows their rights
Restrictions can be applied to licensed footage that needs to be flagged for rights or clearances; users will be notified each time this particular range of frames is used.

Use the right resources to log footage
The Avid Interplay Assist desktop logging tool is simplified for speed, accuracy, and the shortest possible learning curve. Users are productive in only minutes. Reduce errors and eliminate the downtime of logging with sophisticated nonlinear editing systems.

Expand your search area for faster results
Expanded search capabilities include archived master clips or even specific frames. Find, create, and annotate new sequences using new and archived footage—without switching between active and archived storage systems.

Shorten the time from rough cut to final version
Use Interplay Assist to assemble a rough cut, shot list, or even a final story. Add additional notes and send the video to an Avid editing application as an approved sequence—or even send it to air straight from shared storage.

Keep your archive alive
Archivists or librarians can easily review and update the metadata content (notes, comments, instructions, etc.) for every clip, sequence, and shot list going into archive. Active metadata helps others find material, define the location and hierarchy of stored video, and perform archiving tasks more efficiently.

Make yourself clear with special markers
Save time and reduce errors with speed-logging markers: use RESTRICTED to flag usage restrictions;  use TO BE RE-CAPTURED o indicates material selected for re-capture at a different resolution; identify BEST PICTURE or BEST SOUND; or create custom markers for specific project needs.

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