isovideo's standards conversion and digital remastering service uses our proprietary GPU accelerated, file-based, state-of-the-art Viarte server systems. The latest Viarte motion-compensated processing can readily handle HDR material to the high precision required. Viarte any-to-any motion-compensated frame-rate conversion offers particularly accurate conversion for HFR, giving stunning quality for HDR with HFR. This product was a Game-Changer Awards winner (by the IABM and the NAB in 2013). isovideo is honored to be a part of IABM's 40th Anniversary Publication (section: "Award Winners through the years"). Viarte features:

• Advanced visually-optimized HDR-to-SDR tone mapping.
• Cinema quality motion-compensated deinterlacing that maintains 100% vertical resolution.
• Inverse telecine with mixed/broken/random cadence and PSF handling.
• Edge-enhanced scaling with aspect ratio conversion, enables highest-quality upresing from SD to HD, HD to UHD/8K, or scaling down to mobile.
• Manual or automated cropping and reframing.
• Motion-compensated any-to-any frame rate conversion, including interlaced to film, and Cinema quality low frame rate conversion.
• Motion-compensated temporal conversion to fit into a specific time-slot.
• Detail/edge-preserving HDR/SDR Motion-compensated noise reduction, including dot-crawl removal.
• Interlace/telecine re-encoding.
• Proprietary watermarking and Logo insertion.
• Transcoding, including highest quality HEVC encoding at any given bitrate.
• For any input, create professional quality DCPs with JPEG2000 encoding and XYZ colorspace for output at either 24p, 30p or 48p, etc. Multi-channel sound is also supported.
• Audio/Video Conformance (e.g. 23.976->24, 24->25, 25->24, 29.97->30, 59.94->60) for DCP, with or without frame-rate conversion.
• Color space conversion between rec.601, rec.709, DCI-P3, BT2020 and ITU.

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• Superlative image processing quality for digital remastering and standards conversion, which includes:
  • Pixel-accurate, GPU accelerated any-to-any Motion-Compensated frame-rate conversion technology (Legato). Duplicated frames can be automatically removed prior to frame rate conversion for smoother motion results. The tempo can be adjusted by up to +/- 10% to fit material into a specified time slot.
  • The best GPU motion-compensated 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, enabling highest-quality SD to HD or HD to UHD/4K/8K upres (see this crowd_run demo showing continuous scaling/rotation).
  • The best available proprietary dot-crawl removal processing.
  • Breakthrough quality, GPU accelerated detail/edge-preserving HDR/SDR motion-compensated noise reduction. Viarte noise reduction prior to HEVC/AVC encoding achieves up to an 80% further reduction in output file size or bitrate, depending on noise levels.
  • The highest quality HEVC encoding at any given bitrate, from mobile, premiere OTT, Blu-ray, to potential medical applications, etc; and the lowest bitrates for a given PSNR, while preserving sharpness & subtle detail.
• Precision: 32-bit internal component calculations and 16 bits I/O for all Y,Cb,Cr components. EXR floating-point input file format processing ensures the highest computational precision and dynamic range into the Viarte pipeline;
• 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.

• The new GPU accelerated proprietary advanced HDR to SDR tone mapping works for all open standard HDR sources. In particular, it complements our advanced SDR to HDR, It allows conversion to be used in a single stream, backwards-compatible SDR distribution. for a genuinely improved vivid SDR+ viewing experience on any existing SDR display device, from TVs to cell phone, including current Cinema projection systems.
• Sharpness and local contrast is maintained as much as possible at all light levels, with minimal saturation in bright areas, and therefore minimal loss of HDR detail. Creative intent is optimally preserved by keeping maximum possible detail, accurate color balance, the overall brightness impression, and highlights, while complying with rec709. Viarte tone mapped results are more vivid than other backward-compatible SDR, which uses simple tone-mapping curves that reduce local contrast, and appear dull by comparison.
• Fast CUDA implementation of tone mapping from ST2084 (PQ at up to 10000 nits) down to, for example, PQ at 1000 nits, HLG (ARIB STD-B67), or rec709. Other transfer function supported include Sony S-log2 and S-log3. Color conversion (between ACES, BT2020, DCI-P3-D65, rec601, rec709, S-gamut3, etc.) is performed as necessary, and constant and non-constant luminance color matrixing is also supported.
• On-the-fly automatic HDR to SDR tone mapping allows HDR live event broadcast and OTT streaming applications.
• New HDR productions can immediately reach widespread SDR audiences for an SDR+ viewing experience, and with minimal additional capital expenditure for distribution, while content is future-proof and ready for the newer generations of HDR display technology.

• 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.
• All Viarte's processing technologies have been used in either film and/or Blu-Ray production applications. For example,
  • 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.
  • Viarte frame rate conversion technology was also successfully applied to convert the feature-length documentary "Finding the Gold Within", by independent director/producer Karina Epperlein (from 1080p29.97 to 1080p23.976) (see the press release). The converted film was world premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 3, 4 and 12th, 2014.
  • isovideo Viarte digital remastering services have also been successfully applied to the Metallica: "Some Kind of Monster" feature documentary Blu-ray release. The Blu-ray was released on November 24, 2014. More information can be found in the press release. The new trailer of the film can be seen here.
  • isovideo LLC was credited for footage conversion in American biographical film "Love & Mercy" directed by Bill Pohlad. The film is about musician and songwriter Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. The trailer of the film can be seen here.
  • Viarte services have been used for several digital remasterings, including the award winning "Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton" by Rory Kennedy, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and also screened at the 2017 Sarasota Film Festival.
  • isovideo Viarte service were also used for contrast enhanced footage conversion for the Red Bull film "Mavens: Jocelyn Cooper", and "Dishonored Lady" in PBS's American Masters "Bombshell:The Hedy Lamarr Story". Both these films will be premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

• 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 quality 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 achieves the best quality deinterlacing results available today. It is the only technology offering 100% vertical resolution with very little or no visible flicker. Furthermore, at that resolution, it achieves a substantial 21% average bit-rate reduction in HEVC/H.264 versus compressed interlaced - a truly objective measure of deinterlacer quality.