{"id":482,"date":"2025-10-09T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/?p=482"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:04:38","slug":"vqma-check-your-cow-before-checking-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/2025\/10\/09\/vqma-check-your-cow-before-checking-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"VideoQ VQMA Software Video Analyzer \u2013 Check Your Cow before Checking Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What good farmer should check first &#8211; <strong>cow<\/strong> health or <strong>milk<\/strong> quality?<br>\nThe answer is pretty clear &#8211; only healthy cow can produce good milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, mapping this approach to video content production, only healthy video <strong>processors<\/strong> and properly configured processing <strong>workflow<\/strong> can produce high quality <strong>content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, this simple idea is often ignored and people assume that all&nbsp; &#8220;cows&#8221; are healthy <strong><em>by default<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VideoQ VQMA<\/strong> is a software tool allowing to check your <strong>video workflow<\/strong> <strong>before<\/strong> the arrival of unpleasant messages like &#8220;by some unclear reasons, the quality of your content dropped down&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"style32\"><span class=\"style33\">VQMA is a Video Analyzer for <strong>objective<\/strong> Video Processing Chain Integrity &amp; Performance Validation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-485\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQTS200-Workflow-big.jpg\" alt=\"VQMA Workflow Variants\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQTS200-Workflow-big.jpg 847w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQTS200-Workflow-big-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQTS200-Workflow-big-768x314.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VQMA Workflow Variants<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Self-contained solution<\/strong> for manual or automated performance measurement of video cameras, video processors, video capture devices and\/or complete video systems.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-483\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"648\" src=\"http:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_WF_Example_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_WF_Example_big.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_WF_Example_big-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_WF_Example_big-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_WF_Example_big-1024x553.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VQMA Workflow Example<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Three Essential Steps of VQMA Workflow:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span class=\"style32\"><span class=\"style33\"><strong>Step 1<\/strong>. Send artificial VQMA<strong> matrix test pattern<\/strong> through the video processing workflow under test<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span class=\"style32\"><span class=\"style33\"><strong>Step 2<\/strong>. Capture the potentially <strong><em>distorted <\/em><\/strong>video <strong>sample <\/strong>of <strong>very small duration<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span class=\"style32\"><span class=\"style33\"><strong>Step 3<\/strong>. Open captured video file with VQMA software to produce the <strong>Test Report<\/strong> in two formats:<\/span><\/span>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Machine-readable text file for automated decision-making engines, statistical analysis engines and databases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-page GUI Report for human operator; it can be printed as PDF document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>GUI mode is optional, VQMA can be launched unattended in the CLI Mode (aka Batch Mode) to produce machine-readable reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VQMA analysis time is very short &#8211; couple of seconds, so the results can be used for the immediate decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If VQMA verdict is PASS (i.e. the &#8220;cow&#8221; health condition is good), then the MAM (Media Assets Management) system gives &#8220;Green Light&#8221; for all content processing operations (i.e. &#8220;milk production&#8221;),&nbsp; e.g. transcoding and distribution of next scheduled&nbsp; piece of content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VQMA <em>all-in-one<\/em> <strong>Matrix Test Pattern<\/strong> is available as:<br>\nMedia File, Signal, Stream, VQMA-C Optical Test Chart<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-484\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1093\" height=\"569\" src=\"http:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_Composition_big.jpg\" alt=\"VQMA Test Pattern Composition\" class=\"wp-image-484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_Composition_big.jpg 1093w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_Composition_big-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_Composition_big-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VQMA_Composition_big-1024x533.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VQMA Test Pattern Composition<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>VQMA supports frame sizes from <strong>192 x 108<\/strong> to <strong>4096 x 3072<\/strong><br>\nAnalyzed parameters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Geometry<\/strong>:<em><br>Active Image Scaling, Aspect Ratio, Position, Tilt, Keystone<\/em><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Colors &amp; Levels<\/strong>:<em><br>Black, White, Gamma, Color Balance, Color Matrix, Color Bars<\/em><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Frequency Response<\/strong>:<em><br>Gain in dB vs. frequency in <strong>tvl<\/strong>, including <strong>aliasing<\/strong> level<\/em><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Color Saturation:<\/strong><br><em>UV vs. Y Gain<\/em><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>K-rating<\/strong> on needle pulse<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comprehensive <strong>Noise Analysis <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More details about the VQMA Analyzer can be found in:<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videoq.com\/vqma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VQMA page on VideoQ site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What good farmer should check first &#8211; cow health or milk quality? The answer is pretty clear &#8211; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/2025\/10\/09\/vqma-check-your-cow-before-checking-milk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VideoQ VQMA Software Video Analyzer \u2013 Check Your Cow before Checking Milk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videoq-analyzers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videoq.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}