VideoQ VQMA Software Video Analyzer – Check Your Cow before Checking Milk

What good farmer should check first – cow health or milk quality?
The answer is pretty clear – only healthy cow can produce good milk.

Thus, mapping this approach to video content production, only healthy video processors and properly configured processing workflow can produce high quality content.

Unfortunately, this simple idea is often ignored and people assume that all  “cows” are healthy by default.

VideoQ VQMA is a software tool allowing to check your video workflow before the arrival of unpleasant messages like “by some unclear reasons, the quality of your content dropped down”.

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HDR and WCG Parameters

New HDR and Wide Color Gamut (WCG)  formats relies on large variety of video processing chain parameters.
Even the ubiquitous color bars in HDR version significantly differ from their SDR counterparts.
The advent of HDR and Wide Color Gamut technologies demands changes to customs and practices.
New workflow rules must also be established and honed. Conversion between SD, HD, and UHD frame sizes, SDR, HDR-PQ, and HDR-HLG dynamic range formats, in combination with a variety of Color Spaces makes the development and maintenance of such workflows very challenging task.

In mixed SDR/HDR  environments video engineers have to deal with:

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