The Harmonic ProMedia Capture video ingest engine acquires live and taped SD and HD video in real time and encodes it directly into the most-common production and playout formats. Fast and reliable, it provides enormous time savings for the production and delivery of content for diverse applications such as video mastering, content repurposing, archiving and video on demand (VOD). ProMedia Capture supports an extensive array of acquisition, editing, broadcast, web and mobile codecs and wrappers, assuring that baseband content is efficiently ingested and immediately made available for program preparation. The ability to ingest directly into shared storage systems such as Harmonic® MediaGrid allows immediate editing, transcoding and quality control of content the instant it is acquired.