An Interplay MAM database holds media assets such as video and audio assets, basic sequences, and graphics. The Interplay MAM Workspace allows you to carry out many aspects of day-to-day work with these assets by mapping tasks to a tree structure. The Workspace is displayed as a set of folders that contain references to media assets in the MAM database. For example, you save sequences or references to video assets to a folder. This allows you to access the media assets directly at a later date — in other words, you do not need to search for them again.

The Assets pane gives you access to the Workspace of any connected Interplay MAM system. You can see all folders that are released to you and browse and edit the folder structure in the Assets pane. You can add, rename, and delete asset references, view and edit asset metadata, and create basic sequences and initiate processes for assets in the Assets pane.

The following topics describe working with MAM assets: