26. February 2018

Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv extends QUADRIGA•Video Installation

The German broadcast archive "Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv" (DRA) is using QUADRIGA•Video for about a year already to archive their video cassette assets.

As one of its quality assurance measures, QUADRIGA uses the 'Status Monitoring and Diagnostics Protocol' by Sony to monitor signal quality of the ingest machine.

Now DRA have added another monitoring option, named 'RF Off-Tape' supervision, which additionally checks the high frequency signal as saved on the video tape, right at the video head of the Sony playback machines. This enables QUADRIGA to correlate the dropouts that were detected in the video analysis to the measurements of the high frequency analysis. Using this technique, errors during ingest of video cassettes into digital archives can be prevented even better than before.

Using the added QUADRIGA QC View software, archive files can be displayed with quality describing metadata with chronological synchronism.