Telestream Pipeline HD and Episode Encoder provided quick turnaround editing and content repurposing for MVI Post, enabling rapid delivery of the Feb. 11 concert In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement to PBS stations and Web sites.

In Perfomance at the White House
Bob Dylan "The Times, They Are A Changin'"
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"Pipeline solved our problem of how to digitize four HDCAM tapes simultaneously into our server," reports Craig Maniglia, MVI Post owner, who was working under an 18-hour deadline. "We needed a quick and efficient way to import and export HDCAM tapes into our server while utilizing all of our decks simultaneously. After considerable searching, we discovered Telestream's Pipeline product, and the problem was immediately solved."

Two Pipeline HD Dual video capture systems were used to simultaneously ingest 16 hours of content in four hours from four high-definition camera sources, without tying up Avid workstations. Pipeline encoded the sources to DNxHD in native Avid MXF files for use directly in post production. This enabled MVI Post to quickly edit and mix the video while the concert was still taking place. In a separate bay, Episode Encoder Pro provided fast transcoding of concert highlights into H.264 video and AAC audio formats for PBS Web sites.

In Perfomance at the White House
Joan Baez, "We Shall Overcome"
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"We've been using Telestream's Episode Encoder Pro software for quite some time for all our transcoding needs, because it's the best for delivering time-critical broadcast content with flawless execution to all new media playout devices," adds Maniglia. "It was a no-brainer to turn to Telestream for help in solving our tape digitizing dilemma."

"MVI Post presented the perfect challenge for Pipeline, with its need to simultaneously capture multiple channels of video for quick turnaround editing," says Barbara DeHart, vice president of marketing at Telestream. "Pipeline and Episode Encoder are ideally suited for fast-paced production environments requiring high-quality video ingest and reformatting for multiplatform delivery."

In Perfomance at the White House
Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson, "People Get Ready"
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In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement was hosted by President and Mrs. Obama at the White House in honor of Black History Month. The concert includes performances by Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, John Mellencamp, Blind Boys of Alabama, Yolanda Adams, Joan Baez, the Howard University Choir and The Freedom Singers. The program showcases the rich fabric of American culture in the setting of the nation's most famous home.

On the strength of its HD workflow augmentation and creative talent, MVI Post was awarded the postproduction rights to the concert. The music special is a production of WETA Washington, D.C., in association with The Grammy Museum, AEG Ehrlich Ventures and the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).