- Deliver content over restricted bandwidth onto platforms or channels such as the internet or mobile TV, with an automated, quick, cost-effective and efficient way of maintaining quality in your repurposed files.
- Guarantee delivery of high definition (HD) content by monitoring for glitches that are barely perceptible to the human eye, giving you the best possible chance of delivering a quality product.
- Reduce production costs by letting the system do most of the QC work for you, so your operatives only need review a report and check for anomalies, and can spend more time on the things that will make more money for your business.
- Give your content a pedigree with a QC report which gives you a record of quality detailing dozens of variables, to be stored alongside the master file.
- Ensure quality of transcodes and outputs by applying QCs to just about any file following any operation—including those not carried out by iCR Review & QC.
- Integrate with your systems and workflows so you can incorporate iCR into wider automated systems and/or use it to manage and feed into other software or hardware—creating new ways of reducing your overheads
- QC as much content as you need with iCR Review & QC’s impressive scalability, giving you the power to meet any increase in work.
- Deploy and use rapidly and easily, providing a return on your investment as soon as possible.
The route to flawless content
Improve your quality control with AmberFin’s iCR Review & QC
Benefits at a glance:
Ensuring accurate quality control (QC) of your video assets has always been a bit like looking for a needle in haystack.
A dropped frame or poor audio segment can crop up virtually anywhere, and can take a trained eye to spot.
Which is fine if you’ve only got one haystack. But in the file world, haystacks, or hours of content, can be hitting your workflow at a rate of several hundred or even thousand a month. There is no way you can efficiently QC all that material. Or is there?
AmberFin’s iCR Review & QC gives you a hands-off way of checking received files at ingest, before they enter your local systems. It monitors dozens of audio, video and data parameters and flags any deviation from preset values.
This means you can spot any problems right at the beginning of your workflow, giving you the highest-possible quality masters.
The QC can be repeated at any subsequent stage in the workflow, giving you the assurance that problems will not creep in during editing or repurposing.
Automate your QC process with iCR Review & QC
iCR Review & QC automatically QCs your content at ingest and, if required, following any subsequent operation. QC records show you what went wrong, when and how, in an easily distributable eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format.
This means tracking precise errors is no longer a time-consuming process requiring trained personnel. Instead it is as simple as scanning through a log report in a Web browser or via a simple graphical user interface (GUI).
iCR Review & QC’s tools monitor dozens of parameters and can pick up the slightest deviation from your required output values.
Reports are easy to read, giving you the exact nature of the error along with the time code and even a thumbnail of the frame where it occurred. This lets your employees do a much better job of resolving the issue.
Instead of checking output at set intervals, your operators can now home in on sections where the QC report indicates there may be a problem and review it on broadcast-quality monitors, saving time and improving the chances of quickly tracking down issues.
The detail level provided by iCR Review & QC far exceeds any manual quality control process—it is real-time, tracking dozens of parameters and providing in-depth reports on each of your files.
In fact, the iCR Review & QC reports have value in their own right, acting as a pedigree or passport that can be easily exported to an asset management system and relied upon throughout the whole lifecycle of a file for QC auditing purposes.
Prefer a manual review, too, just to be sure? Worried that your sound may be out-of-sync or something may have been missed in the automated QC process? No problem.
With iCR Review & QC you can carry out a full random-access manual check at full resolution on broadcast equipment and use the automated QC as a way of speeding up the process.
A system that can grow with you
iCR Review & QC is built on flexible software modules so it can be easily scaled up to deal with your increased image processing demands.
It is also packed with integration and automation features that will allow you to perform automated tasks as part of a wider image processing infrastructure, and link iCR Review & QC to your business reporting systems.
Almost too easy
You’ll also appreciate the simplicity of iCR Review & QC’s graphical user interface (GUI), which makes it easy to follow and annotate automated QC error reports against actual content on a frame-by-frame basis.
Alternatively, you can easily review eXtensible Markup Language (XML) QC reports from a Web browser anywhere, or export them to enhance the value of your media asset management system.
Easily automated workflows
iCR Review & QC functions can be invoked directly from the user interface, by dropping files into a watch folder or via a Web services application programming interface calls made by your asset or automation system.
iCR Review & QC automatically reviews your content and generates a QC timeline report. This report is also available as a standard XML document for offline review or for importing into a media asset management and business system.
QC report annotation
Whether you have generated a QC report at ingest time with iCR Review & QC, or as part of an automated QC process on an externally created file, you can view it on a timeline so you can easily spot potential problem areas.
This means you can personally verify issues and take appropriate action, or, if the content is as intended, edit the report to add comments and override the QC alarm, ensuring subsequent downstream reviews do not flag the same issue.
Audio QC review
Audio presents unique issues in the file domain. But as you would expect, iCR Review & QC offers powerful audio QC support across a wide range of formats.
You can inspect every channel automatically and in real-time, across a range of parameters no human could ever hope to monitor in a single pass.
iCR Review & QC also offers you the ability to decode a Dolby D-encoded channel into discrete 5.1 AES during real-time playback, and output audio as SDI-embedded audio and AES outputs.
Review & QC - Traditional Workflow
Review & QC - Improved iCR Workflow
