Summary of Products

1. Tvids Uncompressed Video Test Sequences

Technical overview

Tvids encompass the following video types:

• YUV uncompressed video, with associated audio
• Designed specifically for testing video encoders, with a range of subjects and features (see below)
• 2D and 3D stereoscopic
• Almost all common sizes of video: from 80x60 all the way to 4K D-Cinema; 8-bit, 10-bit, 12-bit and 14-bits per sample; 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4
• Length of each sequence typically 15 seconds to 45 seconds (some shorter, some up to two minutes)

Native video format

All video was filmed HD 1920x1080 or higher resolution (majority of recent sequences filmed with cameras with sensors 3.8k x 2k), in the USA (New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Florida) and Europe (London, Barcelona, Munich) except the test set T2V006_Synthetic which was generated at various sizes.

Subject/feature types

The Tvids test clip sets cover just about the whole range of video features that an encoder is likely to encounter, including a range of subjects, motion, colours, light levels designed to fully test and stress the video encoder:

• subject types such as people, traffic, buildings, sky, water, trees, text..
• movement types such as panning, zooming in/out, tracking, hand-held camera, fast, slow..
• subject motion such as into, out of or across the picture, in front of and partially behind objects
• lighting conditions, from bright sunlight, dull daylight, shaded areas, indoors, night-time..
• varying camera properties such as depth of field, in/out-of-focus..
• hard to encode items such as reflections, fine lines, patterns, round objects..
• and with sound associated with almost all of the video clips

The purpose is to ensure that someone who is evaluating an encoder or decoder can be confident that the encoder will not ‘fall over’ or encode really slowly when dealing with ‘difficult video’, and importantly allows the codec user to fully compare different encoders or the codec developer to optimise the encoder for a whole range of video.

3D Tvids

2. SyncVid A/V Sync Video Test Sequences (PROVISIONAL INFORMATION)

The purposes of SyncVid are to test Test video and audio as it passes through encoding, decoding and other equipment

• audio/visual sync
• field order
• clipping (i.e. where the top/bottom row or left-most/right-most column is cut off)
• colour check (colour charts, grey charts)
• resolution check using converging fine lines
• with synchronised audio to make it easy to determine if audio/visual sync is lost through the broadcast equipment

3. TvidsNXS real-time HD-SDI playout software and hardware

This software and hardware can be used to play directly the 2D and 3D Tvids in real-time on an HD-SDI channel:

• TvidsNXS/3G: PC Windows software for real-time play-out of T2V and T3D uncompressed Tvids with PCI hardware board for high end play-out incl. 3D, dual link, dual rate
• TvidsNXS/LHi: PC Windows software for real-time play-out of T2V and T3D uncompressed Tvids with PCI hardware board for 2D / single-link play-out

TestVid is selling these with the Tvids as a proven bundled set of video, software and hardware.

Note: the real-time play-out requires a high performance PC with fast disks.

2D Tvids

Set name

Purpose

Content

Resolutions *

No. of clips

Length

Video format

Size on disk

T2V001 USA East

Standard HD formats with extensive content

New York (most), Florida

1920x1080p25

1920x1080int25

1280x72025

180

(60 at each res’n)

1 hour 36 mins

(32 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0

374 GBytes

T2V002 USA West

Standard HD formats with extensive content

San Francisco,
Las Vegas

1920x108025

1920x1080int25

1280x72025

168

(56 at each res’n)

2 hours 20 mins

(47 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0

540 GBytes

T2V003 Europe

Standard HD formats with extensive content

London, Munich,

Barcelona, Bruges

1920x1080p25

1920x1080int25

1280x720p25

201

(67 at each res’n)

2 hours 15 mins

(45 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0

502 GBytes

T2V004 LowRes

Resolutions D1 PAL and below, incl. VGA, CIF, etc. down to small web sizes

USA and Europe
(cities listed above)

720x576int   720x480int

640x480   320x240

160x120   80x60

352x288   176x144

480x234   220x176

728x90   160x600

(all 25 fps nominal)

840

(70 at each res’n)

9 hours 52 mins

(49 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0

179 GBytes

T2V005 HighRes

HD and D-Cinema video with high bit-depths

USA and Europe
(cities listed above)

1920x1080p25 10-bit

1920x1080p25 14-bit

2048x1152p25 12-bit

4096x2304p25 12-bit

136

(34 at each res’n)

52 mins

(13 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit

YUV planar 4:4:4 / 14-bit

YUV planar 4:4:4 / 12-bit

YUV planar 4:4:4 / 12-bit

1,849 GBytes

T2V006 Synthetic

Standard HD formats with precisely defined motion and features

Synthetically generated / altered

1920x1080p

1920x1080intp

1280x720p

150

(50 at each res’n)

1 hour 15 mins

(25 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0

285 GBytes

T2V013_Europe30 60

HD, SD and high-resolution at frame rates for North America (59.94 and 29.97 fps)

Europe (UK)

1920x1080p59.94

1920x1080p59.94

1920x1080int29.97

1920x1080int29.97

1280x720p60

1280x720p30

720x480int29.97

245

(35 at each res’n)

2 hours 16 mins

(19 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:0

1,420 GBytes

T2V017 Asia

HD, SD scenes from Asia at European frame rates

South Korea, Japan, China

1920x1080p50

1920x1080p50

1920x1080int25

1920x1080int25

1280x720p25

1280x720p50

PAL (720x576i25)

245

(35 at each res’n)

2 hours 13 mins

(19 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:0

YUV planar 4:2:0

1,180 GBytes

T2V027 Asia

HD, SD scenes from Asia at European frame rates

South Korea, Japan, China

1920x1080p25

1280x720int25

720x576p50

720x576p50

720x480p50

720x480p25

720x480int25 TFF

720x480int25 BFF

280

(35 at each res’n)

2 hours 32 mins

(19 mins at each res’n)

All
YUV planar 4:2:0

387 GBytes

All above sets include audio in MPEG-1 Layer II and uncompressed WAV formats

Set name

Purpose

Content

Resolutions *

No. of clips

Length

Video format

Size on disk

T3D002 USA West

Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right)

San Francisco, Las Vegas

1920x1080 p 59.94

1920x1080 int 29.97

70 pairs (35 L+R pairs at each res’n)

38 mins

(19 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit

YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit

680 GBytes

T3D003_Europe

Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right)

Europe (UK)

1920x1080 p 59.94

2048x1152 p 23.976

68 pairs (34 L+R pairs at each res’n)

38 mins

(19 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit

YUV planar 4:2:2 /12-bit

952 GBytes

T3D007 Asia

Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right)

South Korea, Japan, China

1920x1080 p 50

1920x1080 int 25

70 pairs (35 L+R pairs at each res’n)

38 mins

(19 mins at each res’n)

YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit

YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit

535 GBytes

T3D023 USA_Europe

Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right)

USA West (SF, LV), Europe (UK)

1920x1080 p29.97

1920x1080 p23.976

1280x720 p59.94

69 pairs (69 L+R)

35 pairs (35 L+R)

34 pairs (34 L+R)

Total 1 hour 16 mins (38 mins 1080p30; 19 mins at 1080p24 & 720p60)

All
YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit

784 GBytes

Set name

Container

Video Format

Resolutions

Fps

No. seq

T2S001 SyncVid_unc_US

AVI

RGB24 unc.

1080p/I, 720p, NTSC

29.97, 59.94

5

T2S002 SyncVid_unc_EU

AVI

RGB24 unc.

1080p/I, 720p, PAL

25, 50

5

T2S021 SyncVid_unc_US

TS, MXF

MPEG-2

1080p/I, 720p, NTSC

29.97, 59.94

10

T2S022 SyncVid_unc_EU

TS, MXF

MPEG-2

1080p/I, 720p, PAL

25, 50

10

T2S041 SyncVid_unc_US

TS, MXF

H.264

1080p/I, 720p, NTSC

29.97, 59.94

10

T2S042 SyncVid_unc_EU

TS, MXF

H.264

1080p/I, 720p, PAL

25, 50

10