Video: H.265, H.264 (incl. AVC-Intra 50/100 and SONY XAVC), MPEG-2 (incl. D10, XDCAM, HDCAM, IMX-30/50), VC-1, DV (incl. DVCPro25, DVCPro50, DVCPro100/HD), Avid DNxHD (VC-3), Avid DNxHR, Apple ProRes 422 (HQ, SD, LT, Proxy), ProRes 4444, Canopus HQ/HQX, JPEG-2000, Uncompressed (RGB, YUV)

By leveraging automated QC tools, content creators can ensure precise caption-audio synchronization, and save  time and resources while delivering high-quality, synchronized captions for their videos.

Pulsar is the fastest, most comprehensive and versatile file-based Automated media quality control system in the market. It automates quality check and control at every stage of the content life-cycle. With support for latest technologies such as HDR, IMF and 4K, Pulsar, QC software  of choice for many media organizations, allows you to remain ahead of the curve by tackling the quality issues early and efficiently. What’s more, it’s incredibly simple to use! With support for all Broadcast/OTT formats along with wide range of checks, Pulsar is ready to be used for QC check in wide range of workflows including Broadcast, Production, Post Production, Media Services, Archiving and Over-the-Top.

Container: Conformance, Format, File Size, Media Info metadata dump, File name validation, MD5, SHA1 Hash, No of streams, Incorrect extension, Selective track analysis

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Verification Unit Cluster: Ability to cluster multiple Verification Units together to process a larger number of files simultaneously.

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Understanding video cadence (or pull-down) in the broadcast industry can be challenging. In this blog article, we will explain what Cadence (or Pull-down) is along with its practical application, and different pull-down patterns.

QuickTime: Checks and correction for PASP, FIEL, GAMA, CLAP, COLR. Channel Configuration, Track properties, Movie properties, Language Metadata Verification, Check disabled tracks, Check multiple codec entries, Check Timecode properties

Audio phase is a complex and intricate phenomenon that plays a pivotal role in sound reproduction. Understand the causes of audio phase issues and its solution

Many of our customers had been telling us that the process of validating and correcting closed caption files is tedious, time consuming and costly! And that they needed an innovative QC solution...

Dolby Atmos is a revolutionary leap in surround sound technology that takes the audio experience to a whole new level. Learn more about it.

Container: MXF, GXF, LXF, MOV, MP4, 3GPP, MPEG-2 TS, MPEG-2 PS, FLV, WMV, AVI, Matrox AVI, WAV, BWF, AIFF, DPX, JP2, TIFF, Smooth Streaming, HLS, MPEG-DASH, IMF, DCP (encrypted and unencrypted), AS-02, AS-11, Elementary

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Many application such as Advertisement content delivery, requires certain segments to be present at head and tail of the content. This may include color bars, black frames, freeze frames, slates, audio mute, tones and silence. Pulsar allows you to setup your track layouts and validate it.

MXF: AS-11 descriptive metadata, Version, Operational pattern, Timecode presence/track count/mode/start value/source, Index table presence/location/completeness/correctness, Origin parameters, KLV alignment grid/fill elements, Partitions validity/Status/Completeness/Instance count/Index table presence/Essence presence/Max length, Essence wrapping/external check/referencing/partition strategy, Audio track numbers/element size/channel count/configurations, Descriptive metadata presence/scheme, Run-in sequence, Random index pack, Segmentation track, File package count, Index edit rate, Index duration, Audio/Video sample rate, Audio/Video stream type, Audio/Video edit rate, Video line map, Stored width, Stored height, Display width, Display height, Aspect ratio, Component depth, Horizontal sub-sampling, Vertical sub-sampling, System item presence, Block Align, Channel status mode, Fixed channel status data, Stored F2 offset, Display F2 offset, Sampled X/Y offset, Display X/Y offset, Identical GOP indicator, Edit unit byte count, Slice count, Dark metadata, Timecode frame drop, Audio locked/unlocked status, Audio ref level, Sampling rate, Quantization bits, Average bytes per second, Index start position, Single index location, Single essence location, Forward index direction, Image start/end offset, Color siting, Padding bits, Black ref level, White ref level, Color range, Constant B picture flag, Single sequence, Low delay

Meta data: Closed Captions (608/708) presence/conformance/format/location, Line 21 VBI Caption Decode, AFD, Bar, V-Chip, Teletext

Audio phase plays a pivotal role in sound reproduction. Understand the causes of audio phase issues and their QC solution.

Pulsar can process four files in parallel with one verification unit of Pulsar professional. Pulsar can process even more files by adding more verification units in its cluster.

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.

You can process files with Pulsar either manually or in an automated way. For automatic processing, you can process files through the watch folder or using SOAP API.

Pulsar supports a wide range of broadcast, archiving and VOD formats. It also allows a wide range of audio, video checks on media content.

Pulsar has the most comprehensive HDR toolset for performing a variety of metadata validation checks and detailed reporting of HDR parameters. You can also cross-check the video properties between HDR metadata and video essence. Dolby Vision, HDR-10 and HDR-10+ formats are supported.

Cloud Native file QC service that allows Automated QC of media content to detect a wide range of Audio, Video issues. Includes support for…

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Pulsar allows 6x faster than real-time analysis speed for HD content. This results in quicker access to QC results and lesser investment for a given content volume. You can set up a cluster with multiple verification QC units for higher system throughout.

Pulsar has built-in support for adaptive bitrate and fragmented MP4 formats, allowing users to automate QC of video-on-demand assets.

Pulsar, with its wide range of QC checks, ensures that your content is compliant with regulations and customer specifications such as Photosensitive Epilepsy Validation, audio loudness against CALM act, EBU R128 and OP-59 recommendations, compliance with legal luminance & chrominance range or RGB Gamuts, and others.

Audio: Audio Codec, Sampling Frequency, Quantization Bits, Channels, Bitrate (CBR/VBR), Drops, Silence, Mute, Test Tones, Loudness (R128, CALM, AGCOM, ARIB, Speech Gated), Loudness Range, Dialnorm, Sample Peak (DBFS, PPM), True Peak, Dual Mono, Clipping, EAS tone, Phase Mismatch, Language ID, Mosquito Tone, Quasi Peak

Video Parameters: Codec, Video Format, Color space, Chroma Format, Color Matrix, Color Primaries, Transfer Characteristics, Scan Mode, Duration, Frame Rate, Resolution, Display/Pixel Aspect Ratio, GOP Length, GOP Type, Field Order, Frame Sizes, Buffer Size, Bitrate (CBR/VBR), Profile/Level, Entropy Coding, Reference Pictures, MBAFF, Timecode Discontinuity, Timecode frame drop, 2020 Color Space, Progression Order, Wavelet Transform

Pulsar has the most comprehensive HDR toolset for performing a variety of metadata validation checks and detailed reporting of HDR parameters. You can also cross-check the video properties between HDR metadata and video essence. Dolby Vision, HDR-10 and HDR-10+ formats are supported.

Learn what is dialog gated loudness, it’s importance in video content, and how our QC products can help you detect it in an automated manner...

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General: Compliance, Factory templates – Netflix, DPP, Amazon Prime, ARD-ZDF, Loudness (R128, CALM, OP-59, ARIB), iTunes & CableLabs

You can automatically correct the Integrated loudness of your file. Loudness correction is supported only for PCM and MPEG-1 layer 2 audio.

Designed for organizations who want us to perform QC on their content using Pulsar/Quasar/CapMate file QC systems. This allows organizations…

Pulsar allows 6x faster than real-time analysis speed for HD content. This results in quicker access to QC results and lesser investment for a given content volume. You can set up a cluster with multiple verification QC units for higher system throughout.

With Pulsar’s ready-to-use factory templates, you can check compliance with major content delivery platforms. You can also customize these templates as needed.

GOP or “Group of Pictures” is a term that refers to the video structure representing how digital video is grouped. But before we get into understanding GOP, let’s start with the basics...

Video Quality: Black Frames, Blockiness, Brightness, Cadence, Chroma Hits, Chroma Line, Clipping, Colored Frames, Color Bars, Color Gamut, Combing, Credit Roll, Camera Dead Pixels, Dead Pixels, Digital Hits, Field Dominance, Flash Frames, Freeze Frames, Luma/Chroma levels, Half/Full lines, Bar Artefacts, Letter/Pillar Box, Framing Issue, Photosensitive Epilepsy (Harding)(SDR and HDR), Low Video Level, Low Black Level, FBI Warning Card, URL detection, Media Offline, Slate, Postal Stamp

Understanding video cadence (or pull-down) in the broadcast industry can be challenging. In this blog article, we will explain what Cadence (or Pull-down) is along with its practical application, and different pull-down patterns.

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Dynamic Metadata: Compliance, Validate HDR10+ metadata (MaxSCL, Average Max RGB, Distribution values, Tone mapping information, Targeted system display maximum luminance), Validate Dolby Vision metadata (Metadata version, shot must not contain <0,0,0> in level 1 metadata, Detect duplicate dynamic metadata, Crosscheck canvas aspect ratio, Crosscheck Video track information, Crosscheck (Calculated/metadata) Image aspect ratio

What is frame shifting, it's impact on video quality, and how to overcome the challenge effectively with automated QC tools?

Usage-based on-premise QC system. This allows users to make use of rich Pulsar QC capabilities while paying on usage basis. Pulsar PPU is ideal for small organizations…

Pulsar is the fastest, most comprehensive, and most versatile file-based Automated QC system in the market. The Pulsar Pro edition can perform the QC analysis of HD files 6 times faster than real-time. Pulsar’s User Interface is considered by many to be the easiest and most intuitive. Pulsar Pay Per Use edition is the only usage-based on-premise QC solution for those with limited content volume or an infrequent need for a professional QC solution.

Usage-based on-premise QC system. This allows users to make use of rich Pulsar QC capabilities while paying on usage basis. Pulsar PPU is ideal for small organizations…

Cross Checks: Video-Container: Width, Height, Frame rate, Aspect ratio, Bitrate, Profile/Level, Scan mode, Field order, Chroma format, GOP type, GOP length, B-pictures, Low delay, Duration, Component depth

Pulsar is a Windows-based software. However, in addition to running Pulsar natively on Windows-based machines, Pulsar can run on Macs that run Windows emulation software like Parallels or Bootcamp. Pulsar can also be run on a Linux system via a Windows-based VM.

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We provide ready-to-use templates of technical specifications required by these prominent content platforms, which can be used by you for the specific channel you want to display your content.

With Pulsar’s ready-to-use factory templates, you can check compliance with major content delivery platforms. You can also customize these templates as needed.

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Pulsar offers comprehensive checks for IMF packages such as package validation, CPL and OPL based validation, support for Application# 2E and SMPTE TSP 212, sidecar composition map validation, and others.

Pulsar has in-built support for adaptive bitrate and fragmented MP4 formats, allowing users to automate QC of video-on-demand assets.

Pulsar can perform a wide range of QC checks at the video, audio, container, and metadata levels. Pulsar can check the compliance of IMF/DCP packages. Pulsar supports HDR formats (HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision and HLG). Pulsar can also perform reference-based measurements such as PSNR, SSIM and Venera’s own Ref-Q for media content.

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Pulsar offers comprehensive checks for IMF packages such as package validation, CPL and OPL based validation, support for Application# 2E and SMPTE TSP 212, sidecar composition map validation, and others.

Yes, Pulsar QC software can perform the Harding test on HDR contents based on the ITU BT-1702-2 and JAPAN HDR specification. HDR-10 and Dolby-Vision formats are currently supported in Pulsar for Harding PSE testing.

We actively integrate with the prominent solutions in digital media industry to provide an integrated offering for your workflows that are easy & efficient to use.

What is frame shifting, it's impact on video quality, and how to overcome the challenge effectively with automated QC tools?

Transport Streams: SCTE35, Program count, PCR Jitter, Packet Length, PID Usage, PIDs, PID Bitrate, Packet Intervals, PAT checks, PMT checks, Stream checks, PES checks, Language Metadata Verification

Many applications such as Advertisement content delivery, requires certain segments to be present at head and tail of the content. This may include color bars, black frames, freeze frames, slates, audio mute, tones and silence. Pulsar with its advanced QC checks allows you to setup your track layouts and validate it.

Pulsar – Automated file based QC software supports a wide range of QC checks. Small selection of checks are displayed here. Click here for the detailed list.

Learn why caption-audio synchronization is important and how to deliver high-quality synchronized captions in your video using automated QC tools

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IMF/DCP: CPL based analysis, Package validation, CPL cross checks, CPL checks, PKL cross checks, OPL checks, Assetmap check, IMSC checks, Sidecar checks, Netflix Photon validation

Pulsar is the fastest, most comprehensive and versatile file-based Automated MEDIA QUALITY CONTROL system in the market. It automates quality check and control at every stage of the content life-cycle. With support for latest technologies such as HDR, IMF and 4K, Pulsar allows you to remain ahead of the curve by tackling the quality issues early and efficiently. What’s more, it’s incredibly simple to use! With support for all Broadcast/OTT formats along with wide range of checks, Pulsar is ready to be used in wide range of workflows including Broadcast, Production, Post Production, Media Services, Archiving and Over-the-Top.

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Pulsar ensures that your content is compliant with regulations and customer specifications such as Photosensitive Epilepsy Validation, audio loudness against CALM act, EBU R128 and OP-59 recommendations, compliance with legal luminance & chrominance range or RGB Gamuts, and others.

Cloud Native file QC service that allows Automated QC of media content to detect a wide range of Audio, Video issues. Includes support for…

Designed for organizations who want us to perform QC on their content using Pulsar/Quasar/CapMate file QC systems. This allows organizations…

Cloud Native platform that automatically identifies issues in Captions/Subtitles and allows users to perform auto-correction and…