Vienna, Austria — 31 August 2015 — NOA (IBC booth 8.D91) has entered into a partner agreement with JOANNEUM RESEARCH (IBC booth 5.C41) to integrate VidiCert Analyser and VidiCert Summary into NOA’s ActLINE CLIP and DB Scripter products for video archiving.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH’s VidiCert technology provides a two-step approach to content quality control, with comprehensive automated checks for error conditions such as image noise, strong video distortions, digital tape and file dropout sections or blurriness, and a second stage of efficient human verification for detailed confirmation of the content status. Incorporated into NOA’s archiving solutions, the advanced automation allows for efficient quality control workflows and significantly improves productivity especially in larger migration projects.
“Major broadcasters involved in migrating content libraries often have to address half a million or more individual tapes or other pieces of media,” said Christophe Kummer, NOA’s CEO. “On this scale, any increase in efficiency has a big payback, and with the addition of VidiCert, NOA systems dramatically improve performance, helping customers to make big reductions in the intervention time and cost of ensuring quality standards.”
JOANNEUM RESEARCH’s VidiCert technology allows NOA customers to detect VTR and film scanner problems, guarantee consistency between essence files and the corresponding MAM metadata, ensure essence quality during archive master ingest, and select archived content for re-use by quality properties.
“Through our collaboration on very large scale projects such as an actual huge migration at one national Austrian broadcaster, JOANNEUM RESEARCH and NOA have reached a good basis for a co-operation that will help to make the task of archiving considerably less daunting for broadcasters and content owners around the world,” said Georg Thallinger, head of the research group for audiovisual media at JOANNEUM RESEARCH.
More information about NOA and its products is available at www.noa-archive.com or by phone at
+ 43 1 545 2700.
More information about JOANNEUM RESEARCH’s VidiCert is available at www.vidicert.com.
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About JOANNEUM RESEARCH
JOANNEUM RESEARCH is a professional innovation and technology provider with a long track in cutting-edge research at an international level. The innovation company focuses on application oriented research and development projects to promote technology transfer to the economy. DIGITAL, the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, is the trustworthy partner for applied high tech media solutions.
With its cutting edge content QC product VidiCert, its film and video restoration technology development for DIAMANT Film-Restoration, its video brand monitoring solution BrandDetector and its active engagement in relevant standardization bodies like MPEG, EBU/AMWA and W3C, JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL is the premier international solution provider for AV media content analysis, restoration and metadata.
VidiCert™ is a registered trademark of JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH.
About NOA
NOA (www.noa-archive.com) is the leading global provider of flexible turnkey solutions for quality-controlled digitizing, archiving, description and retrieval of AV and other media content. Scalable to suit collections of all sizes, NOA’s product families, ingestLINE™, mediARC™, actLINE™ and jobDB™, not only help ensure long-term preservation of media, but also support enterprise-wide collaboration, efficiency, and productivity by enabling fast and accurate identification and retrieval of clips from the full range of an enterprise’s archive. NOA’s easy-to-use proprietary technologies are today installed in some 20 high-profile enterprises worldwide, including Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT), Yleisradio Finland (YLE), Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV), Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico and the Austrian Broadcaster ORF. With headquarters in Vienna, Austria, NOA is committed to the ongoing development of innovative technologies to ensure the maintenance of invaluable cultural heritage for future generations. For detailed information please visit the NOA website at www.noa-archive.com.
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