Aurora is Automated, No-Reference, File-Based QC. Add Trust To Your Files.

Trust means that your files from ingest, transcode, archive or capture meet your expectations:

• Metadata is correct (against your expectations and metadata/stream integrity is intact)
• Distribution/Broadcast constraints are met
• Video and Audio Quality is acceptable

Aurora is the one production-capable QC tool today which provides this level of trust by ensuring that your files are exactly what you expect.

Offering Complete Metadata QC tests specific for:

• Container Tests - Transport, Program Stream, GXF, MXF
• Codec Tests - MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, H.264/MVC, VC-1, Dolby AC-3, Dolby E
• Ancillary Data Tests - CEA-608, CEA-708, SCTE20, ATSC53, SCTE35 and DVB Subtitles
• Broadcast and Distribution Constraints - NTSC, PAL, ATSC (A/53, A/85), DVB-T (TR 101 290), ISDB-T (ARIB B-10), CableLabs TV (SCTE54), CableLabs VOD (SCTE-VOD-CEP2.0-I03), XDCAM (RDD-9), AS-02 (AMWA), DVD and Blu-ray.
• User-defined limits - container metadata (including checking for specific codec and ancillary data); video stream metadata (including time, size and color information); audio stream metadata (including Dolby metadata). If it exists in the metadata, Aurora likely already allows you to build a test around it.
  
  

Quality Algorithms are focused on delivering frames that contain artifacts that your eye can see and your ear can hear, rather than false positives.

Unique 3-level Macroblocking Analysis
Specifically built to avoid false positives; allows you to set limits on the simple test of detecting macroblock edges, but then gives you the ability to really find where those edges will actually cause the user to see or report a problem.

First of its' kind Tape Hit Detection
Invented and designed by Digimetrics with the ability to detect RF drop outs during tape ingest, including common issues of intermittent block-based line artifacts, shiny spots, mosaic patterns, partial line drop outs and field-based chroma loss.

Photo-sensitive epilepsy/Flashing test
Designed specifically to be compliant to the published Harding guidelines required for use by OFCOM in Rule 2.12 and NAB Japan.

Supports Your Workflow Today
Aurora was built with automated workflows in mind, so all Aurora processes are built around our web-services API (a WSDL-based SOAP API), allowing for easy integration into any workflow, whether in-house or off-the-shelf. Includes native hot folder monitoring, making you instantly productive from day one. E-mail notifications are also built-in.

Cross Platform
Built on a Windows service back-end, the Aurora APIs and user interface are all web-based, allowing rollout on Windows, Mac OS or Linux based architectures.

Made for Speed
With the ability to process SD files 2x to 5x faster than real-time and HD content at real-time or faster, our GPU accelerated quality testing allows you to use the power of nVidia's CUDA technology to run QC much faster than possible on the CPU alone.

Designed to produce Easy to Read Reports with actionable information, Aurora's reports are XML, rendered as your choice of HTML or PDF.

• You get a first page view of everything that is contained in the file and everything that is wrong with the file (and the ability to drill down and see specific frame by frame information on error locations).
• Information is available to automate your entire workflow - since the report is XML, with common test index and error location information, the results of any test can be used to automate a transcoder process to fix that error. Examples include cropping out letterboxing, removing bars and tones and correcting loudness metadata.
• Unique visual representations for non-visual errors include audio waveforms and luma histograms
• Show as much or as little detail as needed with our collapsible summary of errors/warnings, detailed error locations and recap of template tests.
  
  

Simple to Setup
Installing on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with as few as three clicks in under 20 minutes in most cases. No pre-requisites, IT configuration or post-deployment changes necessary.

Additionally, our new template editor makes designing test templates simple in an easy-to understand layout, and allows you to import and export templates via XML.

Full Codec & Container Support

• Video Codecs - H.264/AVC, MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264/MVC, AVC Intra, IMX 30/40/50 (D10), Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD, Cineform, DV, DVCPro 25/50/100, JPEG2000, Motion JPEG, Flash VP-6/7, Baseband RGB/YUV/HUFF, H.263/+, MPEG-4 Pt. 2
• Audio Codecs - PCM (WAV/BWF/AES), AC-3/Dolby Digital, EAC-3/Dolby Digital Plus, MLP/Dolby TrueHD, Dolby E, AAC, HE-AAC, DTS, DTS-HD/Master Audio, MPEG-1, MPEG-2/L-1-2-2, AIFF, WMA Standard, WMA Pro
• Containers - Transport, Program, MXF, MOV, AVI, FLV, WMV/ASF, MP4, 3GPP, GXF, LXF (referenced essence for MXF and MOV)