DAW88 - 8 channel AES/EBU NexTracker audio watermark engine with QS ADD-ON bus

Description

The DAW88 is an audio watermarking embedders for Audience measurement (NexTracker™). Developed in corporation with Civolution this powerful card can encode/watermark up to 8 mono channels in the AES/EBU domain

 The powerful quad speed audio bus makes this card ideal to process embedded domain audio by use of a quad speed enabled Master Card.

Up to 8 channels of inaudible Civolution based watermarking including time codes and channel or content identifiers  SyncNow™ watermark embedding for Second screen applications in xAW010   NexTracker™ watermark embedding for Audience measurement in xAW100

NexTracker™ watermarking
Digital audio watermarking hide information in an audio file without the information being audible to the listener, and without affecting in any way the audio quality of the original file. Its main use is for protection of intellectual property rights, especially protection against online music piracy. Other uses for watermarking technology include embedding auxiliary information or meta-data related to a particular song, e.g., lyrics, singer and other album information.

Digital watermarking embeds inaudible and imperceptible data, the payload, into a media asset to give it a persistent identity. This data can later be extracted and interpreted by devices to identify, manage or monetize the asset.

Audio and video watermarking finds a broad range of applications. A media asset can be identified with a catalogue number and timecode for broadcast verification. A radio or TV signal can be identified with channel and precise airing details to facilitate accurate audience measurement. Watermarking can be used as serial numbering for a series of copies for a given piece of content and act as a deterrent against piracy and a forensic analysis tool.

Forensic watermarks and transactional watermarks can be linked to specific information on the transaction or recipient (i.e. a person) and operates like serial numbering of instances or copies for a given content. Audio and video forensic marking solutions can be customized to adapt to different workflows and distribution channels e.g. pre-release, digital cinema, pay-TV, internet.

On the other hand, broadcast monitoring and audience measurement require using the watermark payload to identify what the content is, or content version, and include timecode information all along the content to enable the identification of the exact abstracts which are being aired or published.

• NexTracker™ viewing rates watermarking
• Up to 8 channels of inaudible Civolution based watermarking with embedded time stamp and channel identification
• Full audio swapping of all input channels allow for a selection of any AES/EBU input or any of the 32 channel bus input to be selected
• 4 stereo channels of audio gain
• 4 stereo channel audio delay up to 4000ms
• 16x 2 channel audio insertion into 32 channel Quad speed audio bus (allows for duplicates)
• Pre and post processed Quad speed bus reinsertion of audio all channels
• Full control and status monitoring through the front panel of the SFR04/SFR08/SFR18 frame and the Ethernet port (ACP)