Content Verification

Determine Objective Quality Levels:
Video content quality dimensions can range from correct encoding, bit rates and color space to technical program format elements that are specific to your facility.

• How do you make sure that the file-based content that you receive on your ingest servers is encoded correctly and with the right video and audio parameters?
• Do you have Content Conformance Agreements (CCAs) with your external content providers for the required encoding and quality standard?
• Will the files on your servers play out correctly on a customer's standard-compliant set-top box or receiver?

Increasing number of new channels and requirements for format transcoding:
The volume of video is multiplying as business units continue to re-format and re-purpose video.

• How do you monitor the quality of many new channels when there are different formats and quality levels required for terrestrial, satellite, cable, VoD, and IPTV?
• Once you decode and re-encode to a different format, how do you make sure that the quality remains intact?
• Have you found a way to check each different version required for SD/HD, for internal archives, third party licensees, and international frame rate versions?

Monitor as much video as possible with limited time, staff and budget:
Content reviewers often need to scale down from full QC of their video content to perhaps viewing the beginning, middle and end of programs. Unhappy sponsors or customers can be expensive in fines or lost revenue.

• How can you be sure that there are no problems in what your human QC misses or doesn't have time to check?
• What do you do if your late-night talk show must be edited and reformatted to be on syndication servers early the following morning?

Broadcasters and Content On Demand service providers that face these Quality Control challenges are now turning to Tektronix Cerify for Automated Quality Control for their file-based video.

Find out more on how Cerify addresses these issues.