DESKTOP PC QUALITY CONTROL, File based or live media QC and monitoring software with full logging facilities 

n     SD & HD media files in most formats & TV standards

n     Playback with video, audio, waveforms and error reporting

n     Log reports with timecode and thumbnails

n     Multiple displays of video, audio and surround sound parameters

n     Works with capture devices or cards for live source monitoring

n     Checks for broadcast illegal gamut, letterbox, pillar-box etc

n     32+ different video & audio test performed simultaneously

n     Scans media files faster than play-speed, faster than real-time

n     User customizable displays and report options

n     Option for PSE flashing testing to Ofcom / REC BT1702 guidelines

Typical Applications

·         Quality Control 

·         Compliance and standards

·         Media asset management

·         Reviewing media file inventories

·         Ingest facilities

·         Rushes evaluation

·         Playout, transmission or streaming

·         Post Production

·         Archive management

·         DVD creation, manufacturing etc

·         Pre/post colour correction

·         Live feed / broadcast monitoring

·         Equipment test, manufacture

·         CCTV

Reel-Check is a suite of programs that run on a performance Windows PC without special hardware. The Solo version is intended for individual desktop use. It performs a complete set of quality control tests on any audio/video media content.

Reel-Check Solo can work with all professional video formats including uncompressed component types or RGB 4:4:4, all standard and high definition dimensions. Files can also be in any compressed type, subject to a suitable Codec being available. Sub-broadcast (small) formats and 2K can also be handled.

Embedded audio, stereo or multi-channel surround-sound can be extracted and checked alongside the video for audible or visual impairments on a frame by frame basis. Solo also has all the facilities of a waveform and vectorscope. product.

The product is capable of automated checking ingested or finished file content on local or network drives. The user can set a table of the test parameters and tolerances, and any excursions outside these defined limits are logged with associated timecodes and detail notes. Also a thumbnail image at
the time of detected events can be inserted in the easy to read, RTF-formatted log.

The log file can either be stored locally on the Reel-Check’s host computer or a networked drive for subsequent scrutiny or printing.  Reel-Check logs can be easily further edited in ‘Word’ or any other common word processor as required.

Reel-Check Solo uses highly sophisticated image processing algorithms and audio analysis engines.  The software checks for visual impairments in baseband-decoded video and audio problems due to poor encoding, degradation or originating from the encoded source content.

Each test can be enabled or disabled by the user from a simple menu. The test parameter ‘sets’ can saved or recalled from profiles. Thus a specific profile can be standardised or passed from manager to operator etc. With media-files, the test operation can either be run at normal play-speed or faster than real-time.

For live sources, Solo will work with most PC compatible capture cards or devices as well as DV or HDV over firewire. QC of taped media can be tested in this configuration.

For each test parameter, an alarm or software GPI can be set-up. If those set events are detected, an on-screen message alerts the operator or some external process or operation can be triggered.

As well as displaying any combination of Video and waveforms of the operator’s PC monitor or dual monitors, the software can be configured to playout Video to a SDI, HD-SDI or HDMI interface card for connection to TV monitor or other equipment.

Reel-Check  SOLO Download  update version or trial full install - registration required