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QCtudioTM is an advanced cloud-based quality control (QC) review system designed to streamline the QC process. The platform provides an intuitive interface where users can review the reported errors directly on the audio-video timeline. This allows a seamless review process, helping users identify where and how issues occur within the media.
QCtudio presents detailed information on each alert, including its type, location, and severity, directly from the QC report. It also enables multiple team members to review and comment on the content, thus, fostering better communication and collaboration to ensure all issues are addressed efficiently.
Quasar is the first file QC service built natively for the cloud architecture. Encompassing all the latest features of Pulsar; industry’s most efficient audio and video quality control software, Quasar video quality checker promises the fastest rate of QC in the cloud.
Quasar not only ensures your content security through IAM cross-account roles, whitelisting and pre-authenticated URL, it is the most advanced cloud video QC software with support for advanced features such as HDR, IMF/DCP analysis, Adaptive bitrate QC, Harding PSE etc. Quasar File QC can be used to verify the content before submitting to key VOD services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and HBO.
Users can view alerts directly on the content timeline. Users can directly navigation to the desired alert position and review the alert.
QCtudio interface visually represents the audio signal in the content allowing users to easily identify audio issues such as spikes, dropouts, and other issues. This visual aid enhances precision when reviewing and correcting the audio content.
Users can simultaneously view the content video against the reference video to spot & review all alerts. This is useful for reference-based measurements such as SSIM, PSNR and Ref-Q.
To check alerts related to the comparison of multiple audio streams such as consistency across different language dubs, users can simultaneously review and compare multiple audio tracks within the same video content.
Users can a category to alert such as ‘Creative Intent’ or ‘False Positive’ as a result of the review process. This capability helps the user take content decisions including corrective action for various alerts.
Multiple team members can collaborate by adding and viewing comments on specific alerts. This facilitates collaborative discussion, ensuring that each issue is thoroughly analyzed and addressed.
Users can generate and export a comprehensive QC report that details all the alerts along with the comments from all team members and categorized alert types.
Users can generate QC reports that adhere to EBU QC standards format, allowing easy integration of the QC report with solutions that expect EBU QC formatted reports.
Performing QC on a large content volume can be time consuming. Quasar auto scales to support varying content volumes and can process thousands of files simultaneously and quickly.
With IAM cross-roles, pre-authenticated URL, whitelisting for REST API and other security features, you need not worry about your content security. Further, auto provisioning of virtual machine in content region ensures faster content QC.
Advanced monitoring for early detection of potential problems, detailed system logging to trace back any rare issues, and failover mechanisms allowing workflow continuity even with infrastructure failures make Quasar a reliable service.
Quasar is available as a fully managed SaaS service. This eliminates the need of any staff for system management, thus, reducing your time and cost. You can also deploy it in your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Quasar allows for a side-by-side comparison of a media file with its master/reference file using SSIM, PSNR and Ref-Q™, providing an efficient and cost-effective means of getting a frame-by-frame report of all such differences. This reduces manual inspection costs and increases the accuracy of the results.
Quasar supports formats like MPEG-DASH, Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and fragmented MP4 in addition to support for broadcast formats. You can auto-assign different QC templates to different encoding files.
Harding FPA engine is integrated into Quasar allowing users to perform Photosensitive Epilepsy Validation using the industry defacto standard Harding PSE and receive a valid Harding certificate for HDR and SDR content.
Venera serves some of the finest companies of the world in helping improve their content QC operations. Here’s a snapshot of the brands who trust us.
QCtudio is available in two editions, Lite or Pro. The Lite edition is offered for free to each Quasar user, allowing for basic review of Quasar QC reports. The Pro edition offers the additional capability for collaboration.
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Michael Moorfield
Global Broadcast Services Manager at Extreme Reach
Product support and aftercare from Venera has been exceptional. In addition to supporting our specific needs, they ensured almost zero downtime even during product upgrades.
Balu Ramamurthy
CEO, Desynova Digital
Venera and its products are in line with our requirements. By using Quasar Native Cloud QC system in our content workflows, we have been able to automate a large part of manual QC and it has significantly improved the operational efficiency of our workflow.
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