MVI Post Teams with Telestream in White
House Concert Production
February 11, 2010
Source: Telestream
Telestream Pipeline HD and Episode Encoder
provide quick turnaround editing and content repurposing for
MVI Post, enabling rapid delivery to PBS stations and websites.
Telestream announced that it played a key technical role in
bringing this week’s highly-acclaimed White House concert
to television and web viewers.
The concert, "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration
of Music from the Civil Rights Movement," broadcasts
nationally on PBS stations February 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET, and
concert highlights will be available on PBS websites. MVI
Post, Washington DC’s HD leader in production and post
production, successfully posted the concert for TV and web
audiences under an extremely tight turnaround thanks in large
part to Telestream’s Pipeline video capture system and
Episode Encoder.
“Pipeline solved our problem of how to digitize four
HDCAM tapes simultaneously into our server,” reports
an elated Craig Maniglia, MVI Post owner who was working under
a tight 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 websites.
“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,”
added Maniglia. “So, 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,” said Barbara
DeHart, VP 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 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 post-production 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).
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