Pipeline Features

Pipeline sits on your network, so anyone can access it

• Providing freedom from the hassles and limitations of traditional capture-card solutions
• Common network protocols, RS-422 deck control and frame-accurate ingest/playout
• Eliminates capture card/workstation operating system and driver incompatibilities

Four easy ways to capture your video:

• Schedule recording of live feeds
• Log and capture from tape
• Manual record
• Control through a simple automation API

More choices, more flexibility

• Support for MXF workflows, creating OPAtom and OP1a media
• Maintain closed captions and other ancillary data via MXF, TIFO and Avid /Apple proprietary schemes
• Print to Tape and Controlled Playout interface allows you to insert edit, assemble edit back to tape, or use Pipeline as a virtual VTR

Encode to multiple formats from a single box

• DV25/50, DVCPRO25/50/HD, IMX 30/40/50, 10-bit Apple ProRes 422 SD/HD, and 8-bit/10-bit Avid DNxHD up to 220Mbit
• Extend your workflow to virtually any additional format with a Telestream Vantage Transcode

Edit or transcode while capture for quick turnaround

• No need to wait for the complete file to arrive
• Batch ingest from an EDL file to encode multiple clips from a single tape

Multi-channel scalability

• Exceptional encoding density in a compact 1RU box
• Includes dual power supplies for critical workflows
• Scalable to an unlimited number of channels

Cost-effective network import/export station

• Use any machine on the network as a dedicated, network import/export station – making it very cost effective
• Direct extraction and preservation of ancillary data and a wide variety of time code sources
• Powerful web service API makes it easy to develop an application that automatically controls multiple Pipeline systems

Ingest into editing workflows

• Save significant time and cost importing & exporting media
• Edit events and breaking news while they are being captured
• External video encoding frees up your workstation for editing
• Smart encoding to Final Cut Pro project bin settings
• Create Avid compatible MXF directly

Ingest into DAMs and digital archives

• Streamline ingest into online libraries, digital asset management systems and archives
• Including Apple's Final Cut Server, North Plains' TeleScope DAM system, Microsoft's Interactive Media Manager and more

Ingest into Vantage workflows

• High-quality baseband ingest into Telestream Vantage workflows
• Quickly transcode to virtually any format while media is being captured
• Simultaneously create high-res files for storage and low-res proxies
• Preserves important metadata, such as closed captions, throughout your video transcoding workflow

Playout to Tape or Monitor

• Playout QuickTime or MXF OP1a files back to tape or a monitor for quality checking
• Turn Pipeline into a virtual VTR controlled via Sony 9-pin commands via RS422