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 PPU saves you from making huge investments in purchasing a QC tool. You have the flexibility to pay by content hours or a monthly subscription, and thus, align your investments with your revenues.

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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.

On-premise File based QC system for Automated QC system of audio-visual assets. It allows QC of media content to detect a wide range…

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.

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

Pulsar PPU is installed inside your facility with all the analysis functions performed locally. This eliminates any investment in additional network bandwidth and ensures content security.

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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

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Bruce Test Post Production Supervisor Pulsar PPU is really hitting a sweet spot for us. We get the full quality of an enterprise QC solution with pricing that adapts to our changing needs.We have been very happy with Pulsar PPU. I think it has been and continues to be a very good tool to have.

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

Pulsar is designed for ease of use by operators and doesn’t bog them down with a large number of unnecessary errors. It has an intuitive interface and simple configurable reports with logical grouping of errors.

Alan Saunders Post Production Supervisor, Curiosity Stream Pulsar PPU is really hitting a sweet spot for us. We get the full quality of an enterprise QC solution with pricing that adapts to our changing needs.

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

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.

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

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 is designed for ease of use by operators and doesn’t bog them down with a large number of unnecessary errors. It has an intuitive interface and simple configurable reports with logical grouping of errors.

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

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Pulsar PPU is a Windows-based system. However, you can use a Windows emulator such as “Parallel” on top of your Mac systems to use Pulsar PPU.

We will need a generic corporate email address to register you on the PPU portal which you will use to login into the system. Once we register the email address, you will receive a signup email to complete your registration. Once the registration is completed, you can download the Pulsar installer from the PPU portal and install it on your system.

** A minimum of $9 will be charged for every file that is analyzed for Harding PSE (which does include Standard QC as well)

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)

Yes, account management is available in PPU. You can add multiple operator accounts under your main account and can assign them a monthly subscription plan or usage-based plan.

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...

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

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

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

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

Our experts and thought leaders share their knowledge of technologies pertaining to QC solutions for digital media industry in these scholarly articles.

Pulsar pay-per-use supports a wide range of checks. Small selection of checks are displayed here. Click here for the detailed list.

We have a policy that a user needs to add a minimum of $100 in a period of six months to keep your account active. Unused credits get added to newly added credits.

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

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Small production and post-production organizations who need to have access to file-based QC tool but can’t afford to invest in a dedicated license, can now use Pulsar PPU. Pulsar PPU allows such organizations to access Pulsar QC capabilities without any CAPEX. Users can virtually deploy a working QC system within minutes.

Pulsar PPU saves you from making huge investments in purchasing a QC tool. You have the flexibility to pay by content hours or a monthly subscription, and thus, align your investments with your revenues.

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

On-premise File based QC system for Automated QC system of audio-visual assets. It allows QC of media content to detect a wide range…

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 PPU is installed inside your facility with all the analysis functions performed locally. This eliminates any investment in additional network bandwidth and ensures content security.

Small production and post-production organizations who need to have access to file-based QC tool but can’t afford to invest in a dedicated license, can now use Pulsar PPU. Pulsar PPU allows such organizations to access Pulsar QC capabilities without any CAPEX. Users can virtually deploy a working QC system within minutes.

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

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

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...

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

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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

Pulsar PPU is installed locally in the user’s facility and all QC is performed locally. No content upload is needed but an internet connection is required for accounting.

Boasting the flexibility of a usage based solution and the security of a dedicated on-site system, Pulsar Pay-Per-Use (PPU) makes the advanced QC functions of the acclaimed Pulsar automated file-based QC solution immediately available to facilities of all sizes. This is increasingly important as a growing number of broadcasters and content delivery companies demand that content suppliers of all sizes, big or small, QC all of their content prior to their delivery.

Pulsar allows to perform a wide range of audio, video, container and package checks. You may setup your custom templates with relevant checks for your requirements.

Boasting the flexibility of a usage based solution and the security of a dedicated on-site system, Pulsar Pay-Per-Use (PPU) makes the advanced QC functions of the acclaimed Pulsar automated file-based QC solution immediately available to facilities of all sizes. This is increasingly important as a growing number of broadcasters and content delivery companies demand that content suppliers of all sizes, big or small, QC all of their content prior to their delivery.

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

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

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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...

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

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

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.

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

Pulsar allows to perform a wide range of audio, video, container and package checks. You may setup your custom templates with relevant checks for your requirements.

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

With Pulsar PPU, you no longer need to make an upfront investment in purchasing a QC tool. You can pay based on your usage. This is usually better if your content volume is low. For more details on the pricing, click here

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

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

Yes, we can provide Demo credits to help you set up templates and test files. Beyond this, you can add credits to your account and continue using Pulsar PPU.

Renan Silbar Video Technician,Sato Co. LTD We are happy using Pulsar PPU solution for automated quality control. It is a great software. So easy to use.