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Aurora is the automated, scalable file-based QC system that saves media providers time and money by driving efficiency, quality, and cost savings in their workflows. Aurora can be integrated with external workflow management tools in both on-premises and cloud deployments to continuously check, unattended, thousands of hours of content.

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Telestream Cloud automated Quality Control removes the need for labor-intensive tasks that involve manually checking conformance by eye and hand. All quality checks are run within a Project which contains single template used to test compliance against a defined set of parameters required by industry standards for content delivery. As of now list of available templates includes: ARD ZDF (XDCAm and AVC-Intra); AS 11 UK DPP 4.3 (AVC-Intra); AS 11 UK DPP 5.0 (AVC-Intra and IMX); AS 10; Netflix HD; iTunes HD TV Pro Res; Amazon ProRes; and LipSync. All templates (except LipSync) have the option to additionally perform PSE check to analyze video content for flashing and stationary patterns which may cause photosensitive epilepsy triggered by visual stimuli present in TV programs and ads. Television content in the UK and Japan has to pass the PSE test to be allowed for broadcasting.

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DIVA content storage management software makes it easy for media organizations to manage digital content across broadcast, production and archive operations, and across multiple locations. Providing scalable access, media content can be uploaded into a content repository accessible from multiple applications/devices throughout the network. DIVA integrates with all standard media platforms, including AVID, Grass Valley, Pebble Beach, Inc. Content is protected and preserved thanks to DIVA’s automated systems for verifying content and activity-log monitoring, as well as Virtual Private Network (VPN) access.

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Telestream Cloud Flip is multi-cloud video transcoding service that runs on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. It takes your source files, converts them to required output formats, and delivers to your storage. It allows you to easily produce high-quality content for a variety of applications - from mobile to broadcast: H264, H.265 or VP9 for web publishing; HLS & MPEG-DASH with AES/Common Encryption DRM for multi-screen devices; and MPEG-2 TS, XDCAM, AVC-Intra, IMX, Apple ProRes, DNxHD for broadcasting and professional workflows. Flip provides you with the flexibility to process and store your media files in multiple regions, as close to your source files as possible, reducing latency and egress costs. Transcoded media files can be delivered to one of the supported storage options: AWS S3; Google Cloud Storage; Azure Blob Storage; IBM Aspera; (S)FTP; and IBM Cloud Object Storage.

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Supporting television production and media distribution while teams work remotely brings with it many challenges. A primary challenge with remote work is the ability to see, hear, and understand the technical properties of your media library from afar. At Telestream, we call this media file opaqueness. GLIM was built to solve well known remote work challenges: be a vastly superior experience to the ‘remote desktop/virtual desktop’ playback experience, and to prevent remote employees wasting hours every day downloading mezzanine grade media files. Solving these two challenges significantly reduces the aforementioned media file opaqueness, and ultimately increases productivity. GLIM is a groundbreaking technology that allows users to remotely play mezzanine/professional-grade media files in a web browser. The GLIM engine is built upon our Switch playback and inspection technology and will allow for remote playback of any container/ codec/resolution/fps/audio channel/color space combination in a web browser (Windows or Mac OS and Google Chrome v80+).

For Service Providers: iQ solutions make sure your viewers are seeing your content with the quality you intended, and that the companies you are paying to store, prepare, deliver, and play your content are consistently providing the service you expect.

For OVSPs and CDNs: Your network and its underlying equipment and services must operate flawlessly to provide consistent, high-quality content. iQ solutions let you know when the video quality or network performance are degrading and help you diagnose the root cause to fix the problems as quickly as possible.

For Content Distributors: You need to be able to discover, troubleshoot and fix video problems before your subscribers tune out. iQ Solutions provide the intelligence to know what’s going wrong and what to do about it.

Acquisition: Telestream iQ Solutions are designed to allow you to tap into video and measure the right quality metrics at each point in the video chain.

Inspector® Family: Content inspection at the headend, including encoding and transcoding. Surveyor™ Family: Surveying the delivery performance across the networks that distribute your video.

Collection and Processing: Acquiring data is a critical first step to understanding your video business, but when you are gathering that data from many different points - tens, hundreds, thousands, or even millions in the case of end devices - you need tools to manage and convert that information into knowledge and insight in real time.

iQ video management solutions working with data acquisition elements for the purpose of collecting, processing, and correlating information, so that you can detect, isolate and solve problems quickly.

Business Intelligence and Analytics As an architect, manager or business analyst you may be asking questions like, “how does our video quality compare this year to last?” and “Where should we make our next infrastructure investment?”

These types of questions go beyond real time reporting and correlation. To find answers you'll need to be analyzing a lot of data over a long period of time. The iQ intelligence and analytics solution simplifies your ability to quickly find answers by providing historical reporting and analysis for video quality assurance.

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Kumulate makes video storage and content management simpler, more intuitive and cost effective. With a modular design Kumulate users start with the core storage management functionality and add modules at their own pace, adapting to new revenue streams.  Integrations with Avid MediaCentral and Adobe solutions make Kumulate one of the most flexible and well integrated storage management options. Working with AI and Machine Learning solutions from cloud providers adds cognitive services including speech-to-text and facial recognition into standard Kumulate workflows. Kumulate’s next-generation interface enables intuitive drag-and-drop functionality for easier platform configuration and storage location control.

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Enterprise-class OTT Streaming:
Superior, scalable, real-time adaptive bit rate encoding for SD, HD and UHD HDR sources into AVC and HEVC. Lightspeed Live Stream can ingest multiple baseband SDI or IP video sources (MPTS, SPTS, RTMP) and encode multiple variants or ABR packages and deploy them to multiple destinations or host the origin.

Easy to Use, Easy to Manage:
Simple, powerful web-based GUI provides complete control over all sources, encoding groups, templates and channel outputs. XML import and export for scalable system deployment. RESTful API for operational control, triggering and status monitoring.

Stream Conditioning for Frame-Accurate Ad-Insertion:
Lightspeed Live Stream will detect SCTE 35/104 and place an IDR (Instantaneous Decoder Refresh) frame at the boundary so that downstream equipment or server-side content replacement and ad insertion can take place seamlessly and cleanly without without requiring re-encoding of the existing stream; improving quality and efficiency. Lightspeed Live will condition your streams for ad-insertion on any output, including HLS, DASH and RTMP.

Screen-Ready Packaging and Delivery:
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG DASH, MP4, and CMAF packaging. Deploy via RTMP, local origin, or distribute to CDNs. Supports DRM and encryption options. Choose the output and delivery options that you need.

Simulcast to Social Media:
Drive a larger audience to your program and boost engagement through leading social media platforms. Lightspeed Live Stream has direct API integration with Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and RTMP streaming, for a complete publishing solution.

Automated Workflows, Triggers:
Built in scheduling, playlisting, branding, and event triggering features allow for agile broadcasting and channel deployment. Lightspeed Live recognizes SCTE 35/104 triggers and VANC data to allow for programmatic ad-insertion and content replacement, so you can respect content rights, and monetize more viewing windows. With our new IDR stream conditioning technology, you can be sure that all downstream content replacement and ad insertion will always begin on a full frame and be clean and seamless across all variants.

Unified Live and File-based Workflow:
Lightspeed Live Stream can be combined with Lightspeed Live Capture to record the highest-quality mezzanine files for delivery into file-based workflows. When coupled with our world-leading media processing platform, Vantage, your content can be seamlessly and efficiently conditioned (ads removed, content added, bumpers, branding, captioning, etc.) and delivered to any viewing window, with complete, end-to-end automation.

NEW! Support for Avid Interplay Check-in:
Lightspeed Live Capture allows you to check your captured assets (even if they’re still capturing) directly into Avid or Adobe-based NLE systems. Whether your editors are using Interplay or just Media Composer or Adobe CS, they can grab growing files captured by Lightspeed Live Capture and begin editing right away. No need to wait, no need to change your post-production workflow.

Growing File Record for Open Workflows
Record any source into growing files for instant, ongoing delivery to any production or processing workflow. Record and share edit-ready formats with Avid Media Central, Avid Interplay, Adobe Premiere, Switch, Vantage Social Media Connector, Apple Final Cut Pro and more. Lower turnaround times for clips, highlights or promo packages in live and post-production environments.

NEW! Compatibility with Aspera Faspex file transfer service allows you to capture growing files on-site and work on them remotely over unmanaged networks in real-time.

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Enterprise-class Multiscreen Streaming Telestream Lightspeed Live Stream delivers enterprise-class live streaming for media and entertainment companies, corporations, government agencies and educational facilities. Lightspeed Live Stream provides superior quality and efficiency adaptive bit rate encoding for SD, HD and UHD sources into AVC and HEVC. This integrated hardware and software appliance combines multiple CPU and GPU cores as well as targeted ASIC CODEC acceleration to deliver flexible and efficient encoding performance. Input support is available for SDI as well as IP sources, offering future-proof operation as delivery mechanisms change. Output can be delivered via RTMP to platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, as well as ATS, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG DASH, and CMAF packages and MP4/MP3 files.

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Live ABR Monitor is a Telestream Cloud service that enables robust OTT Stream monitoring that is spun up on demand in almost any location around the globe. Live ABR Monitor measures stream performance, across multiple geographic regions with actionable insights delivered in real-time. Live ABR Monitor primarily focuses on measuring the performance at the CDN edge; providing delivery performance, asset availability, and video impairment analysis.

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Timed Text Speech is ideally suited for content creators who need to produce captions and subtitles for time-sensitive content that must be aired on TV or the Internet with short turnaround times, as well as short-form content such as promos that require captioning. It also offers a time-efficient solution for captioning service companies looking for new tools to speed up their service, and a cost-effective and easy-to-use automated transcription option for corporations, government organizations, and educational institutions wishing to bring captioning in-house.

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Vantage simplifies media conversion in today's multi-format, multivendor video environments: production, archiving, and multi-platform distribution. It provides scalable, intelligent workflow automation for file-based content production and multi-channel distribution. Vantage can automatically make decisions, manage content, and correct workflows based upon incoming metadata and content properties.

Telestream offers automated file-based system solutions built on the scalable Vantage media processing platform: Tempo, Post Producer, VOD Producer, VOD Producer DAI and, TrafficManager.

Vantage can run on public and private virtualized infrastructure with a proven multi-node orchestration engine that intelligently capitalizes on the flexibility of virtual infrastructure.

What Vantage Is:
The Vantage media processing platform is based on a flexible service-oriented architecture, Vantage is made up of discrete services and connectors that combine to create powerful automated workflows – all under unified system control. Vantage services provide transcoding, media capture, metadata processing, media analysis, and content assembly. Vantage connectors enable seamless, API-level integration with third-party systems.

Used By:
Content owners, producers, and distributors use Vantage to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively ingest, edit, transform, package, monetize, and distribute their media.

Scalability:
Vantage offers scalability from simple standalone systems to complex, multi-server systems to meet your growing business needs today and well into the future. Running on standard, off-the-shelf server hardware, or our GPU-accelerated Lightspeed® Server, Vantage utilizes all of the capabilities of today’s enterprise-level IT infrastructures and best practices.

The Latest Technologies:
Vantage transcoding, workflow, and systems solutions utilize the latest technologies to deliver pristine quality, exceptional processing speeds, plus the industry’s most intelligent and scalable workflow automation system. Vantage processing can be extended from on-premise systems to the Cloud – to quickly address peaks in production demand, or test new business concepts.

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Vantage allows content owners, producers, and distributors to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively ingest, edit, package, monetize, quality-check, and distribute their media. It sits above your content and media workflows, orchestrating best-in-class media processing services, on-premises and in the Cloud – to quickly address changing production demands or to test new business concepts. Based on a flexible service-oriented architecture, Vantage is made up of discrete Services, Media Management Tools, and Connectors that combine to create powerful automated workflows – all under unified robust system control. Vantage Services provide media capture, transcoding, metadata processing, and media analysis. Vantage Management Tools provide advanced compositing, assembly and powerful workflow automation. Vantage Connectors enable seamless, API-level integration with third-party systems and our own Vidchecker QC. Vantage offers scalability from simple standalone systems to complex, multi-server systems to meet growing business needs today and well into the future. Running on standard, off-the-shelf server hardware, or best-in-class Telestream Lightspeed® GPU acceleration servers, Vantage provides disaster recovery, and utilizes all of the capabilities of today’s enterprise-level IT infrastructures and best practices. Where cloud deployment is preferable, Vantage can flexibly run in private or public clouds solely, or in addition to your on-premises systems. Vantage utilizes the latest technologies to deliver pristine quality, exceptional processing speeds, plus the industry’s most intelligent and scalable workflow automation system. We offer a broad range of enterprise-class transcoding and workflow solutions based on the Vantage media processing platform to ensure flexibility and scalability to meet your business needs well into the future.

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Free up your powerful editing workstations from performing non-creative tasks – even for remote workflows. • Critical business continuity & disaster recovery issues are solved by Vantage Cloud Port. • Vantage workflows can automatically “follow the media,” using cloud processes when and where it makes sense. • Vantage Cloud Port supports hybrid deployments of appliance, virtualized, and cloud, using proven best-of-breed Vantage technology. • As media files are orchestrated, Vantage Cloud Port automatically provides intelligent and efficient management of cloud storage, avoiding egress fees and providing operational efficiencies that are easily monitored. • Workflows can be made to burst in peak demand situations – you’re ready for worst-case workload without constant overprovisioning. Consumption-based pricing protects your bottom line. • Proven partner integrations that have made Vantage the industry standard are now available in a flexible hybrid cloud offering. • With the Vantage Cloud Port Hosted Workflows option, Vantage workflows can be exported and run completely in the cloud. There is no dependence on Vantage systems running on the ground.

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Vidchecker and Vidchecker-post are easy to install Windows software applications for PCs/servers. They remove the labor intensive tasks of checking conformance manually for video/audio compliance, using waveform monitors and audio loudness meters—and to then manually correct levels with video processing amplifiers, and other tools. Vidchecker and Vidchecker-post The GUI is accessed through a web browser either on the local machine or remotely over a network. It is designed for checking file-based video before and after distribution, and for use by broadcasters for checking files received from post production and content distributors. These tools help ensure that file, video and audio parameters and levels are correct and ready for broadcast.

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Telestream Cloud automated Quality Control removes the need for labor-intensive tasks that involve manually checking conformance by eye and hand. All quality checks are run within a Project which contains single template used to test compliance against a defined set of parameters required by industry standards for content delivery. As of now list of available templates includes: ARD ZDF (XDCAm and AVC-Intra); AS 11 UK DPP 4.3 (AVC-Intra); AS 11 UK DPP 5.0 (AVC-Intra and IMX); AS 10; Netflix HD; iTunes HD TV Pro Res; Amazon ProRes; and LipSync. All templates (except LipSync) have the option to additionally perform PSE check to analyze video content for flashing and stationary patterns which may cause photosensitive epilepsy triggered by visual stimuli present in TV programs and ads. Television content in the UK and Japan has to pass the PSE test to be allowed for broadcasting.

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Aurora is the automated, scalable file-based QC system that saves media providers time and money by driving efficiency, quality, and cost savings in their workflows. Aurora can be integrated with external workflow management tools in both on-premises and cloud deployments to continuously check, unattended, thousands of hours of content.

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Vidchecker and Vidchecker-post are easy to install Windows software applications for PCs/servers. They remove the labor intensive tasks of checking conformance manually for video/audio compliance, using waveform monitors and audio loudness meters—and to then manually correct levels with video processing amplifiers, and other tools. Vidchecker and Vidchecker-post The GUI is accessed through a web browser either on the local machine or remotely over a network. It is designed for checking file-based video before and after distribution, and for use by broadcasters for checking files received from post production and content distributors. These tools help ensure that file, video and audio parameters and levels are correct and ready for broadcast.

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Iris Anywhere is the next generation of GrayMeta's popular Iris Desktop, which provides true, frame-accurate playback of mastered and encoded content with the broadest range of support for audio / video formats and codecs.

Iris Anywhere allows playback and QC of master assets stored in the cloud or on-premise via a browser.  It provides real time QC scopes and monitoring tools.

Accessing the master and source files directly means we are removing the need to create proxy files and are delivering direct access, playback and QC of the master and original files directly to your browser.  No need for additional browser plug-ins or server middleware.

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IMF Analyser is a high-performance, flexible software solution for the analysis and validation of IMF compositions and packages. Easily integrated into media workflows, IMF Analyser validates completeness and conformance, examining each component including validation of MXF assets against the relevant standards and cross-checks between components.

IMF Analyser features can:

• Reduce rework and save costs, by continuously validating IMF compliance throughout workflows to eliminate downstream errors


• Improve customer satisfaction and grow repeat business by always delivering 100% compliant IMF packages


• Realise the Quality Control cost benefits of IMF by aligning QC with the componentised, distributed processing of IMF workflows


• Ensure interoperability of your systems by testing new releases against the latest standards

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As a Telestream Certified Premium Reseller, we can provide the full Telestream range. We can also consult and offer solutions and workflow designs that are best suited to your output – whether that’s broadcast, ABR multiscreen content, remote production solutions, live events, sports applications or edit at home capabilities.

We also provide installation services, onsite or remote equipment training and technical support, so new solutions are optimally integrated into existing workflows, and you can be sure everything’s up and running as smoothly as it was designed to be. See a few of Telestream’s most popular solutions below, and get in touch with our team to find out more about Telestream and our services.

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Encoding.com hands its clients full and granular control over the preparation, transcoding and packaging of premium VOD content without the complexity and cost of managing on-prem infrastructure. Our comprehensive and growing suite of microservices — including broad I/O format support, ABR and CableLabs packaging, content-adaptive bitrate (CABR) encoding, digital rights management (DRM), dynamic ad insertion (DAI), Neilsen watermarking, closed captioning and subtitling, and automated quality control — assures access to best-of-breed video processing technologies for both AVOD and SVOD pipelines. And because we regularly add new engines and capabilities, our customers are guaranteed a high-speed, future-proof workflow.

 

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Pass and Fail watch folders. Generates human readable reports of detailed file analysis. Configurable for multi-supplier workflows.

 

Header Checks

·         Check all 3 header blocks are present – Header, Author and Thread Descriptor

 

Compare Actual Data with Header

·         Check that the first description IN time matches the First Content Timecode in the Thread Descriptor

·         Check that the last description OUT time matches the Last Content Timecode in the Thread Descriptor

 

Check Data Blocks

·         Check for empty file (no data blocks)

·         Timecode Range check – all descriptions are within specified timecode range

·         Verify description numbers ascend through the file (gaps are allowed)

·         Verify that OUT timecode is greater than IN timecode

·         Overall times overlap – descriptions timecodes must not overlap

·         Check for minimum interval between descriptions

 

Check Individual Descriptions

·         Verify that every audio file has a filename

·         Check that every description has an associated WAV file

·         Verify that timecodes are valid numbers (not spaces, letters etc.)

·         Check overall duration is not negative

·         Check minimum audio duration – if selected

·         Check maximum audio duration – if selected

·         Check that Fade and Pan data is present and correctly formatted

 

Check Audio Files

·        Check WAV duration matches the description duration

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Encoding.com’s QC-as-a-Service in the cloud. Gone is the need to purchase and manage expensive on-premise QC infrastructure, and reliance on human QC operators. In their place is a comprehensive slate of QC-as-a-service capabilities, letting you automate your QC job management and reporting needs via the Encoding.com API. By completely integrating content validation into the highly scalable, extremely efficient Encoding.com cloud service, many types of errors — whether visible or not — can be automatically detected and then repaired . The result is more consistently excellent video delivery. The Encoding.com API enables fast and affordable QC for all production and broadcast operations. You can run any number of our 50+ individual QC validations at the time of transcoding and packaging, or use us as a standalone QC service on assets that are already transcoded and packaged.

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Limecraft Edge our signature application to take care of backup (offload), audio synchronisation, colour grading, encoding of browse and edit proxies, as well as ingest into one or more locations. It processes thousands of files at the same time. It handles all common consumer and professional file formats. It is extremely reliable and it will make sure you'll never loose a single shot.

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MSight is a file-based media analyzer software solution that provides the most in-depth testing and analysis of media streams at all levels of encoded data to achieve optimum video quality. The depth and reliability of testing and speed at which errors are detected allow organizations to address these errors quickly, thereby reducing the cost of errors.

 

MSight provides users with the ability to “see it all” with instant access to the lowest level syntax present in the compression standard. MSight is the industry`s most optimized analyzer, which is crucial for dealing with HD content and the volumes of digital media being produced. Optimized performance means that hours’ worth of video and audio can be processed very quickly and problems can be identified, debugged, and fixed in the shortest possible timeframe.

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Turn your playback operations into simple and solid tasks by enabling frame-accurate SDI/IP playback from all professional formats and codecs through a simple and intuitive interface.

Main benefits:

• Preview and monitor;


• Multi-Format and Multi-Resolution;


• SDI/IP Playback;


• Built-In Media Player;


• Audio-Levels Preview;


• Intelligent Monitoring.

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QScan is a family of fully-featured Automatic Quality Control (AQC) systems, engineered to unobtrusively check the integrity of media files at user-definable points in a production workflow. QScan goes beyond regular QC solutions, offering comprehensive video and audio analysis. QScan is powered by the award-winning Quales AQC engine and can be used to provide compliance for file-based content delivery to any global standard. With built-in templates for common standards, the compliance testing process is extremely quick and easily managed.

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Eolementhe© is a file-based solution offering into a very easy-to-use single interface, multi-providers tools to cover several media workflows. Eolementhe© combines automated processes and manual interventions when it’s necessary. Collaborative and agile work with your partners made easy!

Eolementhe is now based on a microservices architecture.

User-friendly interface

Eolementhe© is designed for all audiovisual professionals whether he is IT specialist or not. Create your workflow thanks to simple clicks on blocks, then can save, reuse and share workflows with other users. Eolementhe© is your solution: customize the portal with your visual identity!

A multi-vendor environment

Cloud solutions, open source or third-party tools: Eolementhe© combine the best market solutions in a single interface… to increase efficiency

Operations tracking

Eolementhe© allows you to monitor and track all jobs in progress or done. A clear and simple interface permits to monitor accurately your tasks. A window permits to visualize workflows, download and purge files as soon as they are available. A very complete admin interface helps the administrator to manage the platform: resources management per datacenter, licenses management, display of the state of farms, team management etc.

Create, share or receive standardized Tx-ready files with Eolementhe

You receive Tx-ready files from your partners? Recommend Eolementhe© to your partners, to avoid files go back-and-forth and save money! Eolementhe© already includes the processing of standardized files such as AS-10, MetaPADTV (french specifications) etc, via pre-filled metadata forms.

MAIN FEATURES

Ingest

Standard: https

Standard Object Storage: Amazon S3, Azure, Open Stack

Server files: Files already available on the user account

Premium: Signiant Protocole

Premium Object Storage: Amazon S3, Azure, Open Stack storage via Signiant protocol

Internet video: Video retrieval from internet (Youtube, etc.)

Dropbox & Twitter: connect your account and load the media files from it

Delivery

Manual: Mail notification

HTTPS or Signiant download

Object Storage: Amazon S3, Azure, Open Stack

Media Shuttle

FTP

YouTube / Twitter

Dropbox

Quality Control

A first level quality control done by Media Info is available but it is Baton, the powerful tool from Interra Systems, which allows you to control the file conformity and the audio and video quality of your content. Most of the wrappers and codecs of the market, from DPX to smooth streaming are proposed.

Transcoding

Choose your tools to transcode your files: actually the WFS / Carbon and Xpress nodes from Harmonic, the KFE option HEVC 4K from Ateme and Cambria FTC from Capella Systems are available.

Loudness analysis and control

The Minnetonka solution, well known for the audio processing of files, is integrated with Audio Tools Loudness Control to analyse and correct audio loudness.

Workflow Stop’n’go

The pause mode allows you to manually act on the workflow to add, check, validate information…The workflow pauses, the file is placed in quarantine, and the report is sent by email to describe the error detected. The users decide to continue or stop the workflow and can add a comment for the recipient.

Metadata

Metadata forms creation

Auto retrieve

Speech to text & translation

112 languages are available for multilingual subtitling

Artificial Intelligence

Faces, objects & scenes recognition

Parallel & conditional workflows

Ability to manage several parallel workflows

Creation of conditional workflows according to criterias chosen by the user

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Input 'watch' folder'. Files are automatically processed and moved to either a 'Pass' or 'Fail' folder with an associated, detailed, human readable file analysis report.

Option for File Comparison Service to confirm if a set of individual subtitle files are associated with the same programme.

 

 

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Interra Systems' BATON is the leading M/L and AI enabled automated QC platform that provides comprehensive quality and compliance checks for VOD content, in the cloud / on-premises, for linear and streaming workflows. The hybrid QC solution implements organizational QC policy to support a combination of automated and manual QC checks – the result is a well-integrated and efficient broadcast workflow. BATON is used by global broadcast, cable, telco, satellite, IPTV, over-the-top (OTT), and post-production markets and archiving companies working with file-based content. BATON is the trusted choice for all their file-based QC needs, available both on-premise and in the cloud.

BATON supports a wide range of media formats and offers comprehensive quality checks, including extensive subtitles and CC verification, audio language identification, PSE correction, loudness detection and correction. BATON’s powerful Media Player for frame-accurate review, rich QC analytics and smart workflow tools are the best in class in the industry.

BATON's scalable architecture lets users expand their BATON set up as their QC needs grow. BATON's high availability feature guarantees business continuity even if some of the hardware components break down.

Interra Systems' widely-acclaimed technical support ensures that customers are always up and running.

 

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WINNOW is a powerful software for classifying audio-visual content into semantic concepts. WINNOW uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies for identification of key elements in content in accordance with regulations in different countries, regions, and organizations. WINNOW is empowered with advanced classification capabilities to ensure the content is automatically classified using a rule-based framework. WINNOW provides extensive and accurate content management features, which help in improving workflow efficiency.

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BATON® LipSync is an automated tool for lip sync detection and verification. BATON LipSync leverages image processing and machine learning (ML) technology and deep neural networks to automatically detect audio and video sync errors. Using BATON LipSync, broadcasters and service providers can accurately detect audio lead and lag issues in media content in order to provide a superior quality of experience (QoE) to viewers.

BATON LipSync application is capable of performing facial detection, facial tracking, lip detection, lip activity detection, and speech identification. Sync errors can be debugged further in the BATON Media Player (BMP) through a feature-rich interface that plots out-of-sync audio and video errors on a skew timeline for better visualization. After errors are detected, BATON LipSync provides a comprehensive report of all the LipSync issues.

Available content can be checked in any language independent of the region and area. Offering support for most industry formats, BATON LipSync meets media professionals’ complex requirements for delivering high-quality multiscreen video. BATON LipSync can be seamlessly integrated into any existing content processing workflow, or it can be used as a stand-alone application.

BATON LipSync answers a critical industry need by replacing a time-consuming, expensive manual process with faster and more accurate machine-assisted detection.

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VEGA Media Analyzer (VMA) is an industry leading media analysis platform for standards compliance, debug, and interoperability of encoded streams. VMA enables navigation down to the deepest levels of a media file to generate error reports and analysis. This significantly reduces R&D and QA time in delivering standards-compliant video.  VMA supports all popular video compression and container standards and includes features such as video comparison and quality checks. These features help deliver high quality, standards-compliant media while reducing R&D and QA time.

VEGA Media Analyzer

is the most in-depth and reliable file-based media analyzer that brings complex HEVC information in simple visuals. VMA features includes complete parsing and decoding, frame by frame navigation, analytical graphs, H.264 and HEVC encoding comparison, and powerful error reporting. VMA leverages Interra Systems' industry-proven quality checks to help its users create high quality media streams.→ Learn more

VEGA AVSync

performs a detailed analysis on audio-video synchronization. It identifies out of sync points in the media content and provides relevant debug information to enable accurate assignment of Presentation Time Stamps. VEGA AVSync is designed to expedite testing and delivery of standards-compliant encoder, multiplexer and decoder systems.→ Learn more

VEGA Command Line Interface

is the most in-depth and reliable command-line media analyzer that debugs media streams on Linux platform. VEGA CLI assures standard compliance and interoperability with navigation down to the deepest levels of an encoded stream. The cloud-based solution leverages Interra Systems' industry proven quality checks to help its users create high quality media streams.→ Learn more

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Interra Systems’ BMP is a powerful, feature-rich media player for media professionals to play, inspect, and verify audio-video content. BMP supports the widest range of formats and it can easily be integrated with broadcast workflows at any stage for in-depth examination of media, while facilitating collaboration across multiple teams and projects. The visual and technical information provided by BMP ensures that content looks and plays exactly the way it was intended. Supporting SDI playout, and a wide range of audio, video, elementary and container formats, along with extensive support for closed captions and subtitle formats, BMP offers video professionals one of the most comprehensive media players on the market. BMP is offered both as a standalone media player and as an integrated part of BATON.

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With scalable speeds from 3X to 50X, Etere QC is able to carry out high-speed controls of video files including that of black frames, audio silence and freeze frames.

Etere QC is an integrated file-based module for performing Quality Control (QC) via a streamlined workflow. It automatically detects and marks audio/video issues (e.g. freeze frames, black frames, scene changes, audio loss) on assets' EDL according to their quality, setting also a default quality rating at the end of the process.

Etere QC is able to speed up, automate and streamline the operational efficiency of file-based quality controls performed via workflow across the entire content life cycle.

Etere QC is the best solution for checking audio/video either prior (e.g. playout, repurpose, archiving) or after (e.g. encoding, ingest, editing, transcoding, archiving) media operations. It is able to check all the main videofile codecs and wrapper of any resolution including 4K.

Key Features

■ Works on any Windows computer, without dedicated hardware

■ Multi-processing on the same computer is supported

■ Prevents wasting time by processing only selected issues

■ Up to 50 times faster than real-time speed

■ Fully customizable detection profiles

■ Results are stored in the database using standard format

■ Thumbnails are generated for each detected issue

■ Fault tolerant, load balanced architecture

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With nearly a decade of developing AI and computer vision tools for the world’s number one interactive video platform at WIREWAX, and with another two decades of experience in the video and broadcast space, the team identified ways to leverage the platform’s award-winning image processing technologies in the big media sector too.

Lightning fast; face and object recognition, segmentation, fingerprinting, speech recognition and many other unparalleled tools available in the suite has changed the game for the broadcast and media industry.

Being able to scan entire archives of video assets and create a powerful, digital understanding of videos, programmes and movies with this core technology has enabled large TV and movie studios to leverage data and digital tools and services like never before.

 

We’ve not met a media business on the planet that doesn’t have a digitised asset problem. Lack of metadata, no understanding of content, zero monetisation capabilities and gigantic and disorganized archives. Not to mention expensive asset management, overpriced syndication and VOD preparation, and notoriously slow and extortionate manual services.