File-based workflow is a reality in the media production and broadcast industry. Ingest, acquisition, repurposing, and distribution are getting re-aligned to the tapeless workflows. There is an explosion in digital content and heightened complexity with multiple formats demanded by new channels and new markets. In today's highly competitive environment, manual QC cannot ensure if your content is ready for delivery! To ensure content readiness, adopt Interra's Baton* - an automated content verification system for file-based SD, HD, and mixed workflows. Baton enables you to automate quality control of content, certify content for broadcast, streamline workflows, and minimize manual and subjective QC. Available as software solution, Baton can be easily plugged into your facility's existing workflow. Baton's web-based architecture enables remote management of verification tasks, and its intuitive interface is easy-to-use for operations.

  

Feature Advantages

• First software solution for verification and quality control of digital media content
• Provides concrete quality metrics and QC audit trail
• Ensures content for quality broadcast
• Architectured for LAN and multi-core CPU for enhanced performance
• Seamless integration with existing workflow
• Scalable architecture suitable for small, medium, and large facilities
• Leverages existing IT infrastructure
• Heterogeneous platform support

 

Salient Features

High Level Features

• Web-based application that enables multiple users to access the system simultaneously using standard browsers
• Capable of handling large volumes of content in a distributed environment
• Easily scalable for verification workload increase
• Intuitive user interface with visual cues to enable easy scheduling of tasks and quick grasp of error results
• Familiar web-application based navigation techniques: hyperlinks, breadcrumbs, and location indicator
• Executes in background mode with remote configuration and scheduling
• API interface to integrate with studio workflows and asset management systems

Verification and Reporting Features

• Easy to customize test plans based on custom requirements
• Compliance to media standards
• Facility to add custom checks
• Automatic creation of test plans
• Extraction and verification of parameters and metadata in the content
• Detailed error description: error severity, location of error, and time code
• Incremental reports of tasks in progress
• Thumbnails of erroneous pictures

Task Scheduling and Monitoring Features

• Priority-based scheduling of tasks
• Easy integration with content sources
• Hot folder operation

Post Verification Actions

• Email based notification of task results
• Moving of qualified files to playout
• Moving of unqualified files to quarantine

Some Baton Checks

Container Level checks	Video Checks	Audio checks
Content layout CableLabs VoD compliance Play time File, Packet size Teletext Number of audio/video streams Ancillary data	Frame rate Bit rate Frame size Aspect ratio Resolution Duration Video format Coding type Color format Close caption Blockiness Black frames Freeze frames Black bars Color gamut Luma/Chroma levels Cadence Brightness Contrast Pixelation Blurriness	Silence Clipping Mute Test tones Loudness Phase detection

Baton Supports

Work Flows	SD, HD, Mixed workflows
Video formats	NTSC, PAL, SECAM
Media Containers	DVB/ATSC/MPEG-2 Transport, Blu-ray, HD DVD, MXF, GXF, ASF, MP4, AVI, AVCFF, MPEG-2 Program/DVD VOB, QuickTime, QuickTime Reference Movies
Video Codecs	DV, D10, D11, MJPEG2000, Uncompressed RGB (in QuickTime), H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1
Audio Codecs	AC-3, Dolby Digital Plus, MPEG-I/2 Audio, MP3, AAC, AES3, WMA, LPCM, BWF, AIFF

Baton Users

• Broadcasters
• Production Houses
• Content Providers
• Archiving Facilities