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Features & Benefits
- Replaces Subjective, Error-prone,
Time-consuming, and Expensive Manual Processes of Visually
Inspecting Video Content
- Performs Consistent and Thorough
Checks of Incoming Video Files Against User-defined Templates
- Integrates with Video Servers
- Logs Errors, Informs Automation
Systems, Plus Programmable Actions such as E-mail User Alert,
Quarantine and Move Files
- XML-based Templates can be Shared
with other Users in the Content Supply Chain
- Web-based Multiuser Interface
- Flexible Windows Software-only
Solution
- All the Test Features of the Cerify
200 Market-leading Auto-QC Product
- CeriTalk API for Integration with
Automation and Asset Management Systems
Tests Include
- Encoding errors, syntax errors, format, bit
rate, quantisation, frame rate, GOP length, aspect ratio, color format,
buffer analysis, file size, correct PID, CableLabs VoD compliance,
number of video and audio streams, number of audio channels
- Video playtime, signal levels,
gamut, luminance, chrominance, black frame detection, video
quality (blockiness), freeze frame detection, field order
- Audio playtime, peak and
minimum levels, audio loss, clipping, silence, mute, test
tones
Formats
- Format – All frame
sizes, bit rates, and resolutions for SD/HD and mixed
workflows
- Container – MPEG TS/ PS,
MXF, GXF, MP4, QuickTime, ASF, 3GPP
- Video – MPEG-2 (IMX,
XDCAM), H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, H.263, VC-1/WMV,
DV/DVCPro25/50/100/HD
- Audio – MPEG-1/2, AAC,
HE AAC, PCM (AES, BWF, AIFF, WAV), DV, WMA, Dolby-D/AC-3,
Dolby-E
Applications
- Broadcasters – For checking audio
and video after encoding, at ingest, after editing, after transcoding, and before playout for terrestrial, satellite,
cable, internet, and video-on-demand content
- Archiving – For checking
integrity before and after archiving
- Content Providers – For
checking postproduction and aggregated content has been
correctly encoded and conforms to the required quality and
format
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With Cerify you can ensure that your content is ready
for delivery
Quality control of file-based video
that may be ingested from different sources and encoded at
different bit rates, formats, and compression standards for
SD/HD, VOD, and IPTV delivery presents considerable operational
challenges. File-based video must be quality checked for:
- Correct Encoding Syntax: At the digital
level the audio and video must be correctly encoded without
errors in accordance with the compression standard, so that
it plays out correctly at the customer’s STB/playout device
- Correct Encoding Parameters: The audio
and video bit rates, GOP structure, video color-space, color
depth, frame size, frame rate, aspect ratio, and
quantization levels must be correct
- Correct Baseband and Quality Levels:
The analog parameters of signal levels, luma, chroma, gamut,
and quality levels of black frames, video quality (blockiness),
loss of audio, audio clipping, and video and audio playtime
Manual inspection can playout, watch, and listen but is
subjective and cannot look inside the encoding to check that the
correct syntax and parameters have been used.
Cerify solves all these problems, and can be easily
integrated with Automation and Asset Management systems using
the CeriTalk API.
Cerify SW is a fully compatible software-only version of the
Cerify 200 which is the world’s first and leading automated
system for checking/verifying file-based video content prior to
delivery or use.
The XML-based test templates can be exchanged between Cerify
systems, and applied as the definition of the required test
standards between suppliers and broadcasters to establish
Service Level Agreements and reduce costly churn (rework of
content).
The Cerify Developer Community (CDC) of companies working
together on integrated solutions is expanding rapidly and is
featured on the Tektronix website.
User Interface
Easy-to-use web browser
interface shows job status results at top level as red light /
green light
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