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Six Keys For Success In Loudness Monitoring
By Ned Chini, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Digital Nirvana
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With the recent legislation on loudness monitoring, broadcasters the world over are now required to implement technology that keeps audio volume levels consistent between commercials and their accompanying programming. This has taken the form of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act in the United States and EBU PLOUD (R128: Tech 3341/2/3) in Europe. There are several additional international standards for loudness that require strict monitoring and compliance. These include: the international ITU BS.1770 standards; ATSC A/85; AGCOM (Italy); and others. Broadcasters and video service providers must be able to monitor for compliance and loudness regulations and easily troubleshoot and mitigate complaints to avoid fines from their governing bodies. The various legislation states that broadcasters and service providers must have a system in place to resolve and respond to complaints. The ability to log, monitor, and export loudness measurements is critical for broadcasters seeking compliance with this issue. There are six essential features that must be present within a

loudness monitoring system that promises to address today’s government mandates. They must be able to: • Monitor at least 90 days of programing; • Provide visual thumbnails of what was playing at any moment in time; • Offer a printable time-stamped log of an entire 24-hour period or programme, (providing both 1770-1 or 1770-2 values during extraction); • Provide averaged loudness over a cut clip – This can be shown to the programme provider upstream when a problem occurs. (It can be provided for a short form programme or for a piece of dialogue that is signifi cantly not within the specifications); • Offer a convenient view of the instantaneous loudness level on the player; • Deliver alerts when programming is chronically out of range.

Loudness Monitoring
Digital Nirvana’s flagship broadcast monitoring software, Monitor IQ, has a loudness monitoring and audio logging capability that meets all of those requirements.

Digital Nirvana Loudness

Contributing to the powerful audio capabilities of Monitor IQ is OEM software licensed from audio processing pioneer Minnetonka Audio Software, Inc. Minnetonka Audio’s AudioTools Loudness Measurement module enables Monitor IQ users to measure audio levels, perform quality control monitoring, record and log broadcast signals. With Monitor IQ, broadcasters can evaluate all common audio formats in their plant and be alerted whenever audio loudness exceeds acceptable limits. Loudness monitoring is bundled as a standard feature within Monitor IQ Essentials, Plus and Premium versions. Monitor IQ incorporates Minnetonka Audio’s proprietary software within a broader feature set for loudness monitoring and logging of virtually all audio standards. With Monitor IQ being a 64-bit Linux-based system, and because Minnetonka Audio can upgrade its software to comply with any changes to loudness or other audio quality control standards, both products are relatively futureproof. A s th e g l o b a l l e a d e r i n professional audio OEM licensing for Dolby Laboratories and DTS, Minnetonka Audio Sof tware has been developing highly specialised audio processing software for over 20 year s. Broad adoption of Minnetonka A u d i o ’ s algorithms for loudness measurement by European state broadcasters and major private European broadcasters at te sts to the r e f e r e n c e implementation of the EBU and ITU recommended practices. The company’s retail, enterprise and OEM product lines are focused exclu sive ly on

audio, including encoding, QC, measurement and correction products for broadcast and content creation. Digital Nirvana has licensed several Minnetonka technologies, including the AudioTools family of measurement products, for its powerful Monitor IQ broadcast monitoring system. Minnetonka A u d i o’s S u r C o d e s o f t wa r e licensed by Digital Nir vana includes technologies to decode and monitor Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby E. These industry-standard digital audio formats are widely used in ATSC/DTV and surround sound broadcasting.

Beyond Loudness
Monitor IQ is the only broadcast monitoring system that provides centralised management, automatic ad detection, a director’s audio track, as well as an advanced metadata harvester. The system also offers an efficient broadcast monitoring architecture that reduces operation costs and lowers the total cost of ownership. Because the platform is based on open web services (REST) API’s, Digital Nirvana’s software can be easily integrated with third party products and can scale from one to multiple servers and from one to hundreds of channels. All Digital Nirvana solutions are web enabled, so users can access the software through any standard web browser without ActiveX component. A powerful, new feature within the Monitor IQ Premier package is the Advanced Metadata Harvester, which provides the ability to track any data the system logs and collects from alarms or from the broadcast feed. It can locate where the error occurred in the broadcast signal, collect forensic analysis about the event, and report that data back to the customer. It provides access to the data and to the mapping point of when, where and how that video was recorded. This new feature dynamically enhances broadcast discrepancy reporting by allowing station executives and engineers to hyperlink straight to the reported video and view a problem or issue. ■


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F1™ Indian GP Goes Live With Blackmagic
Sony Extends 4K Camera System Range
Allegro DVT Answers the Inbroadcast Questions
Broadcast India 2012
AES Show 2012 San Francisco
Sony & Espn Produce ‘X Games LA’ 2012 in 3D
AJA Ki Pro F1™ 2012 Game Promo First
Shure’s Axient Makes 2012 London Games Debut
Watching the Weather: Whipping Up a Storm
Digital Rapids Kayak Media Workflow Platform
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