The Premium Movie Partnership has selected Quinto Communications to supply and commission the new Amberfin iCR File Player with its advanced QC option for video asset checking, at their Showtime movie channel content preparation facility, located at the Fox Studio entertainment quarter in Sydney.
Showtime required a single solution that could play back and perform QC analysis on a wide variety of file formats including their Apple Pro Res in-house editing format and formats used for delivery to broadcast video servers. Quinto Communications were able to demonstrate that using the new advanced QC option, the Amberfin iCR could perform comprehensive QC analysis on the wrapper and essence structure of the file-based video and audio content and also generate a comprehensive compliance report.
An attractive feature of the iCR is its ability to present QC results in Amberfin’s acclaimed QC timeline view. Here, areas of concern are displayed on a video and audio timeline so that the QC operator can instantly access and play back any section of the video and audio on which possible issues have been highlighted.
The Amberfin iCR system also provides comprehensive video file essence support and can handle a wide variety of video file wrapper formats including MXF OP1a, MXF XDCAM , MXF P2, MXF OP-Atom, MXF AS02, GXF, Windows Media Video (ASF) and QuickTime MOV.
Transcoding and rewrapping between different file essence and wrapper formats as well as high quality file to file format conversion and video standards conversion are also possible on the iCR system.
