Leader Launches New QC Analysers At NAB

Leader Instruments has chosen NAB 2015 as the launchpad for its FS 3012 and FS 3103 broadcast QC analysers.

The new FS 3102 performs real-time checking of up to four HD-SDI or SD-SDI signal streams. It is designed for use with an SDI to PC plug-in interface board such as the BlackMagic Design DeckLink. The FS 3103 software package allows MXF audio/video media files to be processed in less than the file's running time.

A combined system incorporating an FS 3102 and FS 3103 can process up to four files simultaneously in permutations such as one file on FS 3102 and three files on FS 3103; two files on FS 3102 and two on FS 3103; three files on FS 3102 and one on FS 3103; all four files on FS 3102 with none on FS 3103, and so on.

The solutions provide automatic checking and analysis of image characteristics such as block noise, line noise, image skip, image freeze, edit point errors, lost source, and sequences likely to cause photosensitive epilepsy.

Audio tests include channel noise, timing errors, spurious transients, loudness and lost source. Audio can be analysed as a waveform display. Out-of-specification events can be assigned to trigger alarms, increasing the efficiency of live or file-based content monitoring.

The FS 3102 and FS 3013 will make their first exhibition appearance on the Leader Instruments stand (C9015, in the Central Hall).

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