Overview of Viarte Digital Remastering
and Standards Conversion Services

• Deinterlacing that maintains 100% vertical resolution.
• Inverse telecine with mixed/broken and random cadence handling.
• Up/down scaling with aspect ratio conversion and reframing.
• Any-to-any frame rate conversion.
• Temporal conversion to fit into a specific time-slot.
• Detail/edge prerserving noise reduction, including dot-crawl removal.
• Interlacing/telecine.
• Proprietary watermarking and Logo insertion.
• Transcoding.

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Viarte Technology Overview
What is so Unique about It?

• Superlative image processing quality for remastering and standards conversion, which includes:
  • Pixel-accurate, GPU accelerated any-to-any MC (Motion-Compensated) frame-rate conversion technology (Legato), that can remove duplicated frames prior to frame rate conversion for smoother motion results, and adjust tempo up to +/- 10% to fit material into a specified time slot.
  • The best GPU MC deinterlacing and inverse telecine technology (Demeler), including automated handling of mixed cadences, PSF, etc. Viarte inverse-telecine automatically detects and corrects broken cadences. It uses true motion calculations for reliable scene-change detection, achieving as near perfect results as possible.
  • Superbly sharp GPU video scaler/rotator (Rescape), from mobile to 4K/8K, with natural-looking edge enhancement, and absolutely no ringing (see our crowd_run demo showing continuous scaling/rotation),
  • The best available proprietary GPU dot-crawl removal processing,
  • Breakthrough quality, fast, GPU accelerated detail/edge-preserving noise reduction.
• Precision: 32-bit internal component calculations and 16 bits I/O for all Y,Cb,Cr components, maintaining highest system precision.
• Very fast conversion service due to Viarte's low-latency, high-throughput, near-linear scalability, and GPU acceleration.
• Extremely flexible configuration to support all your format needs.
• Viarte's proprietary state-of-the-art motion processing quality is the best available. It is unique in that it is not perturbed by fast luminance variations, and has almost no occlusion artifacts for clean sources.

Awards and Cinema/Blu-Ray Applications

• Viarte was one of five (of 1500 exhibitors) winners of the prestigious Game-Changer Awards by the IABM and the NAB in 2013. Viarte was recognized as having the greatest potential to revolutionize the industry by a panel of impartial experts.
• Viarte server was used for “footage conversion” in two-time Academy-Award winning director Ron Howard's "Made in America". Their editors compared our results with several well-known existing solutions. Our technology “clearly bested” all major competitors, including all other leading solutions (software or hardware). The film work involved 59.94i deinterlacing and frame-rate conversion/blurring to 24p.
• We also successfully applied Viarte frame rate conversion technology to convert the feature-length documentary "Finding the Gold Within", by independent director/producer Karina Epperlein (from 1080p29.97 to 1080p23.976). The converted film was world premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 3, 4 and 12th, 2014.

Objective Measure of Conversion Quality

• Nearly 70% of existing video is interlaced - it is still prevalent in many studio and distribution systems.
• Interlacing is easy to achieve, but deinterlacing to high qulity progressive is very challenging. Furthermore it can be shown mathematically that perfect deinterlacing is impossible to achieve.
• Deinterlacing is key to high quality remastering and standards conversion.
• Viarte deinterlacing is the best quality deinterlacer available today. It is the only technology offering 100% vertical resolution with no or very little visible flicker. Furthermore, it achieves a substantial 21% average bit-rate reduction in HEVC/H.264 - a truly objective measure of deinterlacer quality.