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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 8 | August 2017

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Vintage Cloud Offer Archive
Digitisation & Indexing Services
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t IBC, film archive digitisation
specialist Vintage Cloud is
announcing a new service designed
for companies who want to monetise
their valuable archive assets but who
do not have, or wish to invest in, the
equipment or personnel necessary to
achieve it.
As well as digitisation of archive
analogue assets, indexing and the
generation of metadata are also
available to customers who have
already digitised their archive, but who
have not yet extracted the data from it
that will maximise its value.
"Vintage Cloud was created by
film people for film people, and we
share a background in film editing,
cinematography, sound engineering
and film production," said Peter
Englesson, CEO of Vintage Cloud. "We
know film, and that means we can
provide all the expertise needed for
any size of archive to help customers
derive the maximum value from their
film content."

The new service based on
Vintage Cloud Steenbeck,
the only system capable of
digitising separate image and
audio at the same time at up
to 4K resolution and up to
60 fps, claims to be between
three to five times less costly
per digitised hour than other
systems
while
delivering
unprecedented image quality.
Recognising the nature of much
archive material, Vintage Cloud
Steenbeck is highly tolerant of
broken perforations, fragile
splices, warped and brittle film,
and is also capable of handling
shrunken film via a special
capstan sprocket.
"We can take care of an entire
project, delivering maximum results
for minimum cost," Englesson
continued. "There's a lot to think about
in undertaking a project to transfer
analogue files to digital - but we've
used our considerable experience and

Vintage Cloud Steenbeck
- image up to 4K and audio

expertise in making the investment
in creating the optimum tools for the
job."
The all-in-one system has now
been enhanced by the introduction
of Smart Indexing. Vintage Cloud
developed this software that uses AI

Video Clarity At IBC2017
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t IBC2017, Video Clarity and
PacketStorm
Communications
will demonstrate how manufacturers
and programme service providers can
apply a comprehensive test system for
the new SMPTE suite of standards for
Professional Media over IP Networks
(SMPTE ST 2110).
This demonstration will take place
in the Video Clarity booth and will
feature a fully operational interactive
demonstration
of
IP
network
transport, IP network emulation,
media flow analysis, quality and
performance testing for uncompressed
video, audio, and ancillary data.
IP transport technology is courtesy
of Macnica Technology. PacketStorm
Communications will provide the
IP network emulation to simulate
actual network and media over IP
analysis conditions to measure flow
characteristics to ST 2110 based on ST
2110-21.
Video Clarity's RTM real-time
monitor will provide the source video
playout and test the source against
the network output. The RTM system

Demonstration: Video Clarity IP Network Testing

plays uncompressed content while
it continuously measures audio/
video quality, as well as lip sync and
loudness, and applies a user-set
threshold for error events that are
captured automatically for playback
in a side-by-side comparison of the
source and downstream programme
signal.
Designed for broadcast-product
manufacturers and programmers to
use in their test labs, Video Clarity's
ClearView IP plays or records up to two
channels of uncompressed video from
a high-capacity testing server into a

SMPTE-compliant network. ClearView
IP can apply new IP standards and
play while recording in the IP domain -
critically important features for testing
video quality.
Also on display will be ClearView
Player IP, a high-capacity server
specifically designed for use in an
IP infrastructure, with record and
playback functions for uncompressed
video using new IP-related video
transport
standards.
ClearView
Player IP can record one channel
and play back up to two channels of
uncompressed video programming

and machine learning to automatically
generate metadata for easy search and
categorisation. For material that has
already been digitised, Smart Indexing
is available as a standalone app for
automatic content tagging - increasing
the monetisation potential of assets
while saving time.
"Using Smart Indexing's automatic
tagging helps categorise and curate
content, meaning that revenue
can be generated from film assets
quickly, easily and seamlessly," added
Englesson. "The keyframes generated
in Smart Indexing are an easy and
quick way for users to make sure their
film assets are found by the right
buyers. They also enable customers to
search through their own archives and
organise their libraries."
Smart Indexing is capable of
delivering a tagging result in a fraction
of a second. AI allows Smart Indexing
to automatically recognise over 11,000
objects, scenes and events. It can even
recognise faces (including emotions).

into a SMPTE-compliant network.
Video Clarity will also demonstrate
its ClearView 4K Analyser, which
provides various functions for
importing and analysing HDR video
with support for a wide colour gamut.
The ClearView video quality analyser
and RTM real-time monitor are now
available as an addition to AWS EC2
cloud subscription services, giving
subscribers licensable SaaS versions
of these video quality measurement
tools.
Making its European debut at
IBC2017 will be the ClearView
Venue Player, a video server
that automatically plays multiple
uncompressed segments of content to
multiple screens in precise timing and
sequence. It is designed for broadcast
facilities, theme parks, live events,
staged shows, and other environments
that rely on repeated, synchronised
video playback. The ClearView Venue
Player offers up to eight terabytes of
storage and up to eight 2K outputs or
two 4K outputs in 1RU.
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