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 Les
premières installations chez des
clients seront complétées
en septembre. Des mise-à-jours
des autres produits Avid sont disponibles
pour assurer la compatibilité
Avid
Interplay est conçu pour répondre
aux besoins des environnements de production,
de post-production et de diffusion de
contenu, peu importe la taille de l'entreprise.
Avant tout, Interplay permet à
toute une équipe d'avoir accès
rapidement à l'information et aux
modules d'un projet au moment où
ils en ont besoin, qu'il s'agisse de producteurs,
de réalisateurs, d'archivistes,
d'artistes, de monteurs, de rédacteurs
et même des départements
légaux et financiers.
Voici
le communiqué de presse de Avid
dans sa version originale.
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Initial
customer installations scheduled for completion
in September; company also releases editing
and shared-storage updates for system
wide compatibility
Avid Technology today announced the availability
of Avid Interplay – the world’s
first nonlinear workflow engine, which
fuses integrated asset management, workflow
automation, and security control into
a single system to deliver a business-wide
solution for post production and broadcast
customers of any size. Introduced at NAB
2006, the Avid Interplay system is a client-server
engine capable of connecting teams to
shared-data, managing the flow of projects,
and eliminating time-consuming production
tasks. With a broad range of tools for
searching, archiving, viewing, logging,
automatic transcoding, dual-resolution
encoding, and intelligent tracking of
multi-resolution proxy files, Avid Interplay
is open to any media production environment
– accommodating more than 100 different
media and non-media file types –
and can link to production tools from
virtually any other company. Several Avid
customers, who were among the first to
order Avid Interplay and evaluate a beta
version of the system, are on-schedule
to complete their installations by the
end of September.
“After
beta-testing Avid Interplay, we now have
it connected to 25 editing stations running
on Avid Unity ISIS™, and we are seeing
immediate benefits,” said Peter Bruggink,
chief technology officer of Avi-drome,
a leading post production company in The
Netherlands. “Clients are using Interplay
Assist to browse content and do a ‘pre-edit’
before they enter a formal editing session,
which allows them to save up to 60% on
session time. Other Avid Interplay services
such as archive, transcode, dual-resolution
encode, and multi-resolution versioning
allow us to work more efficiently and
take our business to the next level by
offering differentiated services that
our competitors simply cannot match.”
Chas
Smith, vice president and general manager
for Avid’s Video division said, “Since
unveiling Avid Interplay at NAB, we’ve
had strong interest in the system from
both post production and broadcast customers.
They see that Avid Interplay can help
them solve some of their toughest problems
by streamlining their workflow and removing
the complexity that is created in today’s
file-based world. The ability to log and
view media with Interplay Assist and to
transcode media with Interplay Transcode
provides real-world utility that customers
can use to save valuable time in any production
environment. With support for third-party
 applications,
such as AfterEffects files, Photoshop
images, spreadsheets or legal documents,
Avid Interplay truly connects all parts
of the production pipeline and provides
facilities with the extra edge to meet
their deadlines.”
The
Avid Interplay System
Avid
Interplay is a highly scalable workflow
solution with functionality and entry-level
pricing to meet the needs of broadcast
and post facilities – both small
and large. With the ability to add optional
toolsets, customers can easily expand
the system to handle the complexity of
enterprise-class workflows and to replace
time-consuming tasks with automated processes.
The base configuration of the Avid Interplay
system includes:
- Interplay
Engine – a PC server that connects
to an Avid Unity media network and provides
secure access to active and archived
media assets by all Interplay services;
and,
- Interplay
Access – the user interface for
the Interplay Engine, bringing media
search, check-out/check-in, revision
control and management capabilities
to standard desktops and laptops on
the network.
Optional
Toolsets
- Interplay
Assist – a simple yet powerful
tool for networked desktops and laptops
to play video, select shots, and add
markers and locators with comments to
eliminate time-consuming information
searches before editorial begins.
- Interplay
Transcode – a networked media service
that automatically and transparently
converts source media to whichever production
format is required, according to pre-set
user preferences.
- Interplay
Low-Res Encode – a hardware-assisted
ingest system that captures low-resolution
material from any tape or feed while
the high-resolution version is simultaneously
captured into the same shared storage.
- Interplay
Archive – a network service to
enable review of archived material at
a low-resolution proxy for easy selection
directly from the editing interface,
or through the Interplay Access client.
- Interplay
Transfer– a network service that
allows users to initiate background
media transfers between workgroups or
archives across WANs, while tracking
files and avoiding redundancy.
Total
Services for Avid Interplay
Given
the unique set of infrastructure and workflow
requirements in broadcast and post production
environments, Avid’s Total Services
provides customers with the advanced consulting,
design, health monitoring, and technical
support that they need to take advantage
of the most comprehensive set of Avid
Interplay features. These services are:
- Avid
Support Contracts – provide 24/7
technical assistance, software updates
and extended hardware warranties.
- Workflow
Analysis and Needs Assessment –
includes site surveys and hardware audits
to evaluate system migration, operational,
and training needs, and to manage the
solution design, architecture and installation.
- Workflow
Design and Implementation – provides
customization of the Interplay database
to establish user permissions, folder
structures, and folder properties.
- Network
Design and Validation – builds
a bridge between customer IT and engineering
departments to ensure that existing
network environments meet Interplay
file-based workflow specifications.
- System
Administration Training – delivers
courses that give users essential skills
for administering and monitoring the
maintenance, licensing, user management,
and personnel settings associated with
Avid Interplay.
Availability
Avid
Interplay is available immediately through
CEV.
Avid
Interplay is supported out-of-the-box
with the latest releases of Avid Media
Composer (v2.6), Symphony Nitris (v1.6),
NewsCutter (v6.6), iNEWS Instinct (v1.6),
and Avid Unity systems (v4.2.1). Customers
on Avid Support can upgrade to these versions
for no additional cost.
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