Measuring video quality: Quality Control (QC) is an important part of bringing content into broadcasters’ workflows and archives. Broadcasters industry-wide spend a large proportion of their revenue on acquiring content, but this content cannot be monetised by a broadcaster until it has successfully made it into the business’ workflow.
The broadcast industry today is in the throes of change. Broadcasters are faced with the need to transition from standard- to high-definition services and, as they begin to do so, they are finding themselves faced with a host of new challenges. Not least of these challenges is the need to move from traditional tape-based infrastructures to today’s file-based workflow.
Media companies today must work with assets in the file-based domain if they want to take advantage of the latest in IT based technology. High-quality encoding is one of the key factors in preserving the integrity and value of these assets. This article discusses how new solutions can solve old problems.