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From the 2.10.6 readme.

MediaCentral Production Management.

If integrating with MediaCentral Production Management v2018.6 or later, you must use Interplay Access v3.8 - v2017.2 to configure the MediaCentral Platform Services Settings in the Interplay Administrator. Avid Interplay Administrator v2018.6 cannot be used with MediaCentral 2.10.x.

Sorry but here I go again. Have you lost your mind Avid? Who thought that this is was ok?

HI,

I want to update a sequence and...."Sequence warning! Javan.lang.NullPointerException"

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Help!

Hi guys! I'm setting up a few old multistreams for a client over an interplay workgroup and its been a while since I had to configure one of these. 

Everything looks good but I have just one little thing missing... I remember there was a way to limit the amount of transfers the device can handle, by default is 4 but because of bandwildth limitations and control the idea is to narrow it down to 2. 

Does anyone recall where this tweak is done? 

Now that the 2019.6 releases for mediacentral cloud ux, mediacentral production management, and newsroom management have been released, I have some questions/points about the state of documentation:

1] There is no 2019.6 what's new guide for production management. It links to the 2018.6 version.

2] There is no upgrade guide for cloud ux. Is this forthcoming, or is the product intended to be a clean install from scratch for this release? 

3] The media composer/interplay compatibility document currently lists Composer 2019.6 as Not Supported for MCPM 2019.6, so this release of MCPM has no qualified clients? 

Dear Avid,

Of course Mediacentral/Interplay production updates are welcomed. But this time the readme for the STP-encode server includes something that suggests.... what does it suggest actually?

In the readme it writes:

Summary of STP Encode 2018.11.2 There are no fixes or feature changes in STP Encode 2018.11.2. However this release shares internal software components with Transcode 2018.11.2 and Consolidate 2018.11.2 and the three applications are released at the same time to maintain compatibility.

Compatibility with what? Since when are production services engines ''patch inter (in)compatible"? This needs some eleboration. 

MediaCentral | Editorial Management

Avid MediaCentral | Editorial Management is an easy to use workflow management system that’s designed for small to mid-size creative teams using Avid NEXIS shared storage with Avid Media Composer.

Leveraging the collaborative power of Avid Media Composer’s shared bins and projects, users can search, view media, create sequences and pass these directly to Media Composer bins remotely using an intuitive browser-based interface.
Additionally, the Editorial Management panel in Media Composer expands search capabilities to all media stored on Avid NEXIS with an option for phonetic search.

Check out the FAQ here:   http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/FAQ/Media-Central-Editorial-Management

Questins, let me or Raff know

Marianna

If you check in a sequence with one stereo track into MediaCentral, the audio track will be displayed as A1. You can not use the Web Service API (for example, GetChildren) to determine if it is a stereo track or a mono track. I do not know how to determine if this audio track is mono, stereo, 5.1ch or 7.1ch. I want to know how to determine the type of audio track using the API. Please tell me a good way.

Hi All,

Its been awhile since I posted and I don't know if the subject represents the scope about what I am going to post - but - we are on an older bundle - 3.0.5 with updated 3.4.3 MI - Interplay production and our newsroom editors are Newscutter v. 11.0.6 -- and we had a mystery for awhile. 

As some of you may remember I was with Avid support for several years and specialized in Interplay. The reason I post today is to say that we found a bug that probably will never be fixed but burned us for years. I used every trick in the book that I knew but could not get it resolved. Well...at least we found the workaround and a decent resolution. 

When an editor does restore through media services/restore - as the job finishes and completes in the Media Services Status Viewer (ie turns green) - that is the visual indication that the media should be now available in Interplay window. For the most part it is - but sometimes one - or more of our editors would see the media status remain OFFLINE in the bin. We became micro focused on Media Indexer in our attempts to resolve the problem. As we got down to it - our editors would restart newscutter which would resolve the problem. The media would be online next time they access the bin/seq/media. 

After studying the cache dates and times in the local MI folder on the edit stations we realized that cache files were not being refreshed as designed - only when in the administrator role - could a steady tech log into the MI via webbrowser and re-commit those caches to update them - but I digress - we noticed that the cache updates didn't seem to matter - our offline media would remain offline. 

Making several assumptions I finally realized that this problem had nothing to do with relinking, or Indexer caches, or user settings, project, etc. 

What did work - and the reason you have kept reading this post - is a feature called 'Clear Bin Memory'. It was something that was designed in the older versions to clear outstanding media objects that consume RAM. 

We think why it works to solve our problem is that when an editor access the interplay window and drag clip from Interplay into Bin - there is a temporary object that exists - and gets in the way of the relink/dynamic relink process for this particular editor.  As I mentioned earlier in the post - some edit bays had no problem acccessing the media several minutes after a restore - usually when the editor complains he can't see his media - will run to another room - check for online status in that edit bay and would see it online. 

After fumbling around with this for several weeks - and knowing about the problem even longer - we came up with this. 

So - if you restore something and it doesn't come back in your room - try using the Clear Bin Memory button (info tab on project window). 

Hope it helps some of you oldies. 

Mike Sturgeon

Hey everybody,

I'm really new to the whole Interplay/Media Central thing, so please bear with me :D

We're working with lots of archival footage in our production company every day. Since we often reuse footage we're looking for a solution to create a searchable video library. We work exclusively with Media Composer, so having the capability to simply search every media data base that is somehow accessible would be the easiest way for us to find clips and not having to implement an exterior MAM and change our wokflow. Everything would keep happening within Avid/Media Composer.

The problem is, that it's my understanding, that this only works for media, that is on NEXIS storage. Buying additional NEXIS storage just to store and retrieve media and basically use that NEXIS storage as our library/archive doesn't seem to make sense, because we don't need the performance of a NEXIS just to store stuff. It's just to expensice :D

So the biggest question would be, if there's any way I could make the Media Central apps work on different, maybe even local storage, in order to use cheaper, low performace storage, but still be able to search everything on there.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi Team,

I tested to history funtion on Interplay Access 3.8.1.

The old office file formats(Doc, Xls, ppt) controlled history and rollback fuctions.

But New formats(Docx, Xlsx, pptx) are not history function.

Please, check this. 

thanks

Steve Cho