Avid Interplay Engine

Avid Interplay Engine

The Avid Interplay Engine is the power center of an Interplay real-time nonlinear production environment. It combines an advanced production asset database with workflow management software for instant access to any type of production asset. Built-in project management features enable everyone to perform at peak efficiency, with moment-by-moment status views for managers.

Key Features:

Save time with immediate access to media
Fast, secure access to the right production asset for anyone who needs it—exactly when they need it. Automated processes keep all production elements current and synchronized, eliminating time lost dealing with storage and media management issues.

Protect your work with managed asset security
Managers can grant and rescind access on the fly: per user, per project, even per asset. The system presents users with the material they need without compromising confidential, private, or secure assets, while protecting the source media.

Remove barriers to content creation
Interplay appears as a shared media asset window in connected Media Composer, NewsCutter, Symphony Nitris, and iNEWS Instinct systems, eliminating the need to switch between applications to find media.

Tie media, tools, and teams together
Interplay brings all production-related assets into a single, unified environment that supports any type of file, including video, audio, graphics, scripts, and spreadsheets, eliminating the need for multiple systems from multiple vendors.

Take control with streamlined administration
Interplay is built on enterprise-class back-end technology for mission-critical performance. A single, integrated environment simplifies administration of applications, user access, and workflow.

Prevent unauthorized access
Access to assets can be controlled per individual or per group. Users can be assigned roles, such as reviewer or editor, which determine their access capabilities. On a project level, files or folders can be designated for certain categories of users.

Build on reliable architecture
A high-availability configuration that employs Windows clustering ensures fault-tolerant operation. If the primary asset management server fails, the system will trigger automatic fail-over to a secondary server without any interruption to clients.

Rely on automatic database backup
Project data can be copied to a backup location at user-defined intervals. To minimize downtime, the project database can be backed up at regular intervals without shutting down the system.

Maximize performance, minimize administration
A highly parallel architecture leverages all hardware resources, including hyper-threading or multi-CPU machines. Industry-standard LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) or Microsoft Active Directory technology simplify user management.

Stay on top with integrated Health Monitoring
View system hardware details, processes running on the machine, processor utilization, disk status, and more. Diagnostic logging capabilities allow a centralized system administer to view error messages that are logged on local systems.

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