Hamlet Looks To The Future Of Test And Measurement

As well as launching important new hardware and software products at IBC 2009, Hamlet used part of its display to show work in progress on the next generation of tools to meet specific industry requirements.
Stereoscopic 3D production was a hot topic at IBC this year. One of the critical issues in maintaining a convincing visual impression is to ensure that the two cameras, and subsequent channels are perfectly matched.
To meet this challenge, Hamlet is developing a new version of its popular Vidscope software suite, which it showed at IBC. The new version, Vidscope-3D, compares both "eyes" of a 3D production to ensure accurate matching between the channels. It includes photo-sensitive epilepsy tests to the ITU standard.
For large broadcasters and content aggregators which need to ingest many hours of content, automated file-based quality control is vital. The Hamlet Reel-Check is ideal for this application.
As part of the IBC demonstration Hamlet will feature a new version, the Reel-Check-EV or enterprise version. This allows multiple instances of the software to run on one or a number of computers, looking at watch folders across multiple server networks or driven from a common work schedule. This will add very high productivity to accurate automated quality control.
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