[April 10, 2012]

Digimetrics To Introduce Aurora QC 4.0, Hydra Player Pro and New Partner Relationships at NAB 2012

Digimetrics, the leading file-based QC tool provider for modern media organizations, will introduce new products and new relationships at their stand, N4918, at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas.

Aurora 4.0 is the next major release of Digimetrics' innovative file-based QC software, focused on improving the user experience and file throughput by introducing several features, including:

• Smart Templates - Aurora can now automatically select a test template based upon the incoming file characteristics, allowing users to build up a rule-based decision tree within their QC process. This feature can dramatically reduce costs associated with content profiling and testing, and is included as a standard feature in Aurora.
• Slate Detection - While detecting visual artifacts has always been a highlight of Aurora, version 4 brings the ability to detect when specific items should be present in the content, including black/freeze frames, audio silence, color bars & test tones. Users can also specify a title card frame to be used for content identification purposes.
• Hot Folder Sorting - Users can set Aurora to sort through watch folders based upon a number of items, including file name, file created dates and entry time into the folder.
• Abort Error Class - there is always a certain defect in every workflow which will require that a file be quarantined, and Aurora offers a new abort error handler, which allows the user to specify how the abort should be handled and a quarantine location for aborted files which can be separate from the standard error-flagged files.

Hydra Player gets a substantial boost for NAB as well, with version 2, including the new Pro version, which adds SDI playout support using DekTec (News - Alert) hardware. Hydra already supports playback of every format that Aurora can test, and with SDI playout guaranteeing color accuracy and audio synchronization, the best professional player gets even better. Hydra Pro will launch with support for the DekTec DTA-2152 (HD-SDI and SD playout), DTA-2144 (SD playout), DTA-2145 (SD playout) and DTU-245 (SD playout over USB) cards.

Showcasing the innovative technology that Digimetrics has introduced in the last year, including the customizable, browser-based QC GUI on Aurora and the GPU accelerated Perceptual Artifact Detector, will be two partners exhibiting OEM solutions for the first time at a major industry event.

Harris Corporation (News - Alert), booth N2502, will introduce the Harris^® QuiC™ software family to Nort America, featuring best-in-class quality control technology from content analysis specialist Digimetrics, including three easy-to-use, cost-effective tools for automated analysis of digital assets:

• QuiC™ Pro for maximum flexibility, with scalability to enterprise-level operations
• QuiC™ Express for file analysis in less complex workflows
• QuiC™ View for visual presentation of digital content with ties to HTML reports

"The increasing emphasis on file-based workflows in today's demanding broadcast, production and media operations creates a need for straightforward quality control processes," said Harris Morris, president, Harris Broadcast Communications. "These new tools provide fast, effective and actionable results without false positives -- allowing our customers to more effectively share, distribute and monetize media assets across many workflows and delivery platforms."

Cube-Tec International, at booth N517, will display Digimetrics' Aurora QC suite integrated into Cube-Tec's workflow solution, CubeWorkflow 2.0.

"Aurora was specifically designed with simple integration in mind, and we are pleased that Cube-Tec has chosen to integrate this technology into their innovative workflow platform. We are confident that the combination of these technologies will provide customers with actionable QC items that can lead to faster use of the media assets produced by the workflow," says Eric Carson, Business Unit Manager of Digimetrics.

Jörg Houpert, Head of Technology at Cube-Tec International added, "We are looking forward to include the best of breed QC engines in the market to CubeWorkflow's Quality Enrichment Engine. The Quality Enrichment Engine works one layer above a QC engine and can use complex additional semantic information to improve the achievable quality. This extra semantic layer is primarily important for QC parameters which cannot be unambiguous evaluated in a pure technical measurement.

Digimetrics technology continues to be integrated with Amberfin's iCR product as part of their UQC engine. Amberfin will display the combined solution at booth SU9005.

About Digimetrics

Digimetrics (www.digi-metrics.com), is a business unit of DCA, Inc. that has been focused on delivering the best in file-based QC since 2008, using the latest technologies and innovative new developments. Their Aurora QC is used by modern media organizations, including major broadcasters, cable operators, VOD providers and post-production facilities around the world, and their Hydra Player provides a professional playback and review environment for every format that Aurora can test.

About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and about 17,000 employees - including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications^® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.

About Cube-Tec International

Cube-Tec International (www.Cube-Tec.com) is well known for its outstanding mastering, restoration and archive solutions for professional audio. For more than 15 years Cube-Tec offers state-of the art products for content verification and process automation in modern file-based workflows using multiple quality evaluation methods. New solutions for moving image archiving and Digital Cinema have recently complemented the range of Cube-Tec's products and services.

Cube-Tec's products are in use at world leading media companies and renowned government archives. With installations in more than 100 media archives in 22 countries, Cube-Tec today is in a leading position in this market. Cube-Tec's technology is licensed to companies like Adobe (News - Alert) and Steinberg Media Technologies. Cube-Tec is highly active in international standardization of media workflows at SMPTE, AMWA, EBU and others.

Copyright © 2012, DCA, Inc. All rights reserved. Digimetrics, Digi-metrics, Aurora and Hydra are trademark s of DCA, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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