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Audio/Video QC made easy for cloud workflows
Quasar® is the first file QC software built natively for the cloud architecture. Encompassing all the latest features of Pulsar; industry’s most efficient audio and video quality control software, Quasar video quality checker promises the fastest rate of QC in the cloud.
Quasar not only ensures your content security through IAM cross-account roles, whitelisting and pre-authenticated URL, it is the most advanced cloud video QC software with support for high in-demand features such as HDR, IMF/DCP analysis, Adaptive bitrate QC, Harding PSE etc. Quasar, with its sophisticated QC checks can be used to verify the content before submitting to key VOD services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and HBO.
Quasar is the first file QC service built natively for the cloud architecture. Encompassing all the latest features of Pulsar; industry’s most efficient audio and video quality control software, Quasar video quality checker promises the fastest rate of QC in the cloud.
Quasar not only ensures your content security through IAM cross-account roles, whitelisting and pre-authenticated URL, it is the most advanced cloud video QC software with support for advanced features such as HDR, IMF/DCP analysis, Adaptive bitrate QC, Harding PSE etc. Quasar File QC can be used to verify the content before submitting to key VOD services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes and HBO.
Performing QC on a large content volume can be time consuming. Quasar auto scales to support varying content volumes and can process thousands of files simultaneously and quickly.
With IAM cross-roles, pre-authenticated URL, whitelisting for REST API and other security features, you need not worry about your content security. Further, auto provisioning of virtual machine in content region ensures faster content QC.
Advanced monitoring for early detection of potential problems, detailed system logging to trace back any rare issues, and failover mechanisms allowing workflow continuity even with infrastructure failures make Quasar a reliable service.
Quasar is available as a fully managed SaaS service. This eliminates the need of any staff for system management, thus, reducing your time and cost. You can also deploy it in your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Quasar allows for a side-by-side comparison of a media file with its master/reference file using SSIM, PSNR and Ref-Q™, providing an efficient and cost-effective means of getting a frame-by-frame report of all such differences. This reduces manual inspection costs and increases the accuracy of the results.
Quasar supports QC checks for formats like MPEG-DASH, Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and fragmented MP4 in addition to support for broadcast formats. You can auto-assign different QC templates to different encoding files to perform your video QC.
Harding FPA engine is integrated into Quasar QC checks allowing users to perform Photosensitive Epilepsy Validation using the industry defacto standard Harding PSE and receive a valid Harding certificate for HDR and SDR content.
QCtudio provides the ability to enhance your QC processes and elevate QC efficiency. Now you can review Quasar's results in an innovative interactive interface on a video timeline, adding comments for further collaboration, and modifying alert categories for precision. You can export updated reports in XML/PDF as well as in formats compatible with NLE solutions.
Performing QC on a large content volume can be time consuming. Quasar auto scales to support varying content volumes and can process thousands of files simultaneously and quickly.
With IAM cross-roles, pre-authenticated URL, whitelisting for REST API and other security features, you need not worry about your content security. Further, auto provisioning of virtual machine in content region ensures faster content QC.
Advanced monitoring for early detection of potential problems, detailed system logging to trace back any rare issues, and failover mechanisms allowing workflow continuity even with infrastructure failures make Quasar a reliable service.
Quasar is available as a fully managed SaaS service. This eliminates the need of any staff for system management, thus, reducing your time and cost. You can also deploy it in your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Quasar allows for a side-by-side comparison of a media file with its master/reference file using SSIM, PSNR and Ref-Q™, providing an efficient and cost-effective means of getting a frame-by-frame report of all such differences. This reduces manual inspection costs and increases the accuracy of the results.
Quasar supports formats like MPEG-DASH, Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and fragmented MP4 in addition to support for broadcast formats. You can auto-assign different QC templates to different encoding files.
Harding FPA engine is integrated into Quasar allowing users to perform Photosensitive Epilepsy Validation using the industry defacto standard Harding PSE and receive a valid Harding certificate for HDR and SDR content.
Start by ingesting your media and applying pre-built or custom QC templates, then let Quasar run fast, AI- assisted automated quality checks that catch technical and conformance issues accurately and at scale. From there, review results collaboratively in QCtudio, or export detailed reports in PDF, XML, JSON, or XLSX for your existing tools. Accept, reject, or send content back for correction — all within one integrated, cohesive workflow that efficiently takes your content to a broadcast and platform-ready state.
Quasar® – file based QC on Cloud supports a wide range of QC checks. A subset of these QC checks is displayed here. Click here for the detailed list.
Colour Gamut
Active Region
Cadence
Flash Frames
Photosensitive Epilepsy
Language ID
Audio Loudness
Audio Peaks
Audio Clipping
EAS
Audio Test Tone
Audio Drops
Quasar® Native Cloud File QC service supports a wide range of broadcast, archiving and VOD formats. It also allows a wide range of audio, video checks on media content.
General: Compliance, Factory templates – Netflix, DPP, ARD-ZDF, Loudness (R128, CALM, OP-59, ARIB), iTunes & CableLabs
IMF/DCP: CPL based analysis, Package validation, CPL cross-checks, CPL checks, PKL cross-checks, OPL checks, Assetmap check, IMSC checks, Sidecar checks DNxHD (VC-3), Apple ProRes, JPEG-2000, Canopus HQ/HQX
ABR: Playlist cross checks. Segment cross checks, Profile cross checks, Encrypted Packages
Video Parameters: Codec, Video Format, Color space, Chroma Format, Color Matrix, 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
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, Active Region, Photosensitive epilepsy (Harding) (SDR and HDR), Media offline, Slate, Postal Stamp
HDR Parameters: HDR Formats, Reporting of HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision metadata
Static Metadata: Verify (display Color primaries, mastering display luminance, content light level)
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
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
Container: Conformance, Format, File Size, File Name Validation, No of streams, Incorrect extension MXF: 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, 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, Index start position, Single index location, Single essence location, Forward index direction, Image start/end offset, Colour siting, Padding bits, Black ref level, White ref level, Colour range, Constant B picture flag, Single sequence, Low delay, AS-02 Support 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
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
Cross Checks:
Meta-data: Closed Captions (608/708) presence/conformance/format/location, AFD, Bar, V-Chip, Teletext
Reference-Based Analysis: Ref-Q, SSIM, PSNR
Quasar Native Cloud File QC service supports QC of content stored on AWS S3, Azure Blob storage, BackBlaze storage and Google Cloud storage.
AWS S3
Azure Blob
Google Cloud Storage
Backblaze Storage
Quasar® is available two deployment models – SaaS & Private. SaaS is the most popular edition wherein the entire infrastructure is managed by Venera. Private edition is available for users who strictly need to run their workflow within their own VPC. Variety of plans are available for different content volume and budgets in both the editions. Contact us to discuss the most suitable plan for your workflow.
Subscription
Monthly & Annual plans
Adhoc Plan
Available
Infrastructure cost
Venera responsibility
Infrastructure management
Venera responsibility
Content Storage location
User owned
Subscription
Monthly & Annual plans
Adhoc Plan
Not Available
Infrastructure cost
User responsibility
Infrastructure management
User responsibility
Content Storage location
User owned
Subscription
Monthly & Annual plans
Adhoc Plan
Available
Infrastructure cost
Venera responsibility
Infrastructure management
Venera responsibility
Content Storage location
User owned
Subscription
Monthly & Annual plans
Adhoc Plan
Not Available
Infrastructure cost
User responsibility
Infrastructure management
User responsibility
Content Storage location
User owned
Quasar® Plans
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.
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.
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.
Quasar® is a cloud-native file-based audio/video quality control (QC) solution. It includes all the QC features of Pulsar, our on-premise QC solution. If your workflow is in the cloud, your content resides on cloud storage, and you want to QC your content directly without downloading it, then Quasar is the right solution for you.
Quasar® service is available as a fully managed SaaS service as well as a private edition offering that you can deploy in your virtual private cloud (VPC).
You don’t need to worry and engage your team for managing the cloud infrastructure and can focus only on performing QC checks.
You can immediately start using Quasar®. Either manually or via REST API.
You will get committed SLAs for service upkeep.
No one has access to the user’s content and the processing VMs.
Quasar® audio/video quality control solution does not store any user credentials in the Quasar® system.
We use AES-128 encryption for the temporarily downloaded content on processing VMs. Content is deleted from the processing VMs after the QC process is completed.
You may post the file to Quasar® for QC without giving any security credentials using IAM cross-roles or a Pre-authenticated URL.
Quasar® is AWS FTR certified and adheres to the strict security & reliability requirements that AWS require as part of its FTR program.
Venera is a SOC2 certified company and has strict security controls.
Quasar® is an elastic system that can be dynamically auto-scaled to any size without needing users’ intervention, allowing hundreds of files to be processed simultaneously.
Quasar® has been tested with the ability to run up to 1000 concurrent jobs. That is the most scalable cloud-native QC system.
Yes, you can integrate Quasar® QC software with your workflow using REST API.
AWS and Azure for computing. Quasar® can read content from AWS S3, Azure Blob storage, Google Cloud storage and BackBlaze storage.
Yes, we have integrated the Harding FPA engine within Quasar®. This allows users to perform Photosensitive Epilepsy validation using the industry de-facto standard Harding PSE. Quasar® is the only solution that has integrated Harding PSE for both HDR and SDR content.
No. We automatically create the AWS VMs for QC in the same region as the content. This allows the content QC without any data transfer charges to you.
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Understanding Dolby Atmos and its QC challenges
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CapMate 101 – Caption/Subtitle Files Verification and Correction Solution
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Dialog-gated Audio loudness and why it is important
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Michael Moorfield
Global Broadcast Services Manager at Extreme Reach
Product support and aftercare from Venera has been exceptional. In addition to supporting our specific needs, they ensured almost zero downtime even during product upgrades.
Balu Ramamurthy
CEO, Desynova Digital
Venera and its products are in line with our requirements. By using Quasar Native Cloud QC system in our content workflows, we have been able to automate a large part of manual QC and it has significantly improved the operational efficiency of our workflow.
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