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US Launch For Fully Scalable
Version Of Vidchecker

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idcheck has chosen the 2016 NAB
Show as the US launch venue for a
fully scalable version of its Vidchecker
automated quality control system.
"Vidcheck OnDemand is designed for
use by television content producers,
content owners and broadcasters,"
comments Vidcheck COO Howard
Twine.
"It is aimed at high-volume users and
will be available within an efficient
operational-expenditure framework.
Vidchecker OnDemand licences can be
deployed in burst mode, either across
a public cloud (such as Amazon Web
Services or Azure) or across virtual
machines forming an on-site private
cloud.
"The burst mode concept allows
customers to employ elastic computing
to accommodate practically any scale
of workflow. A broadcaster handling
say 200 programmes per month might
typically need to handle double this
traffic level during coverage of a major
international sports series. Vidcheck

OnDemand is not merely scalable but
has a variable scale driven by user
demand."
Vidchecker is designed for checking
file-based video, audio and related
metadata before and after distribution.
It is also used by broadcasters for
checking files received from postproduction and content distributors
to ensure that file, video and audio

parameters and levels are correct and
ready for general transmission.
Vidchecker can test and correct
multiple
files
simultaneously,
providing a highly efficient alternative
to checking conformance by eye and
hand.
It can also automatically and
intelligently correct video and audio
levels. Sub-SD, SD, HD, UHD, 4K, 8K

Vidcheck OnDemand offers scalable and flexible automated quality control

and mixed workflows are supported.
The Vidchecker GUI is accessed
through a web browser either on the
local machine or remotely over a
network.
Vidcheck is a major innovator in the
design and production of software
for automated quality control and
automated correction of file-based
media. Vidcheck software is used
by many of the world's leading
broadcasters, content distributors,
archive organisations and postproduction companies.
It provides a comprehensive check
of the overall file, video and audio
parameters
and
can
perform
intelligent correction of most common
errors that can occur in the signal
stream.
The software automatically takes
advantage of multi-core and multithread processors to process multiple
files simultaneously and can be
upgraded to add extra features or to
achieve higher throughput.

Video Clarity Shows
ClearView At NAB
A

t the 2016 NAB Show, Video Clarity
will demonstrate ClearView 8.4,
the latest update to its ClearView line
of video quality analysers.
In version 8.4, ClearView 4K and 8K
systems now provide new colourspace-capable pictures as prescribed
by ITU-R BT.2020 as well as support
for high dynamic range (HDR). With
these changes, the ClearView 4K
and 8K systems are the first on the

Video Clarity ClearView WFM chromaticity

market to interactively show side-byside 4K or 8K pictures in native ITU-R
Rec. BT.2020 colour space, and allow
comparison of HDR video in that colour
space.
ClearView 8.4 will benefit both
programme
originators
and
manufacturers of encoding and digital
video-processing products, all of which
must be able to study the visual and
perceptual differences that result from

enhanced colour space and high
dynamic range as they move from
HD to UHD resolutions.
Visitors to the 2016 NAB Show will
be the first to see ClearView WFM,
a new software option for ClearView
Video Quality Analyser and ClearView
Player systems. To complement the
colour-space and HDR capabilities
introduced in the latest ClearView
update (ClearView 8.4), ClearView

ClearView 8.4

WFM actively reads and tests any
video file that has been imported or
recorded to help users understand
input or output signal parameters as
generated by waveform, colour vector,
and chromaticity charts.
ClearView WFM provides
ClearView
users
an
integrated,
affordable,
effective
means
of
displaying
signal
parameters, upon either
input or playback as a
graphical representation
on the desktop, and
eliminates
the
need
for
external
signalVideo Clarity ClearView WFM Waveform measurement tools.
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