Image Processing Controls

Topics

• Image Processing – Scaling Content
• Image Processing – Color Correction
• Image Processing – Scan Type – Key Controls
• Image Processing – Scan Type – Secondary Fields
• Image Processing – Noise Reduction
• Image Processing – framerate Conversion

Image Processing – Scaling Content

Description

Scaling content is typically applied to adjust source content to better match the intended output device screen size or to optimize the resolution of a video output for a particular bitrate. Typically, the lower the bitrate, the smaller the resolution. These settings relate to scaling.

• Resolution (width, height): Controls the number of pixels encoded (e.g. 1280x720, 640x480)

• Stretch to Output: Controls the aspect ratio of video content itself. For example, if Stretch to Output is enabled and source content with a resolution of 1280x720 (16:9) is transcoded to 640x480 (4:3), the resulting output video appears skewed as the aspect ratio of the video content is modified.

• Anti-alias: Choose Bilinear Interpolation or the variable-tap Lanczos filter. In almost all cases, the Lanczos filter provides much better quality when scaling video content, with a small impact on performance.

Recommendations

Enable Anti-alias unless speed is of utmost importance and video quality is not.

Location of Fields

Stream – Video > Resolution	stream_assembly/video_description/resolution
Stream – Video > Stretch to output	stream_assembly/video_description/stretch_to_output
Stream – Video > Anti-alias	stream_assembly/video_description/anti_alias

Image Processing – Color Correction

Description

In some situations, color correction can be used to adjust the visual color representation of content:

• Brightness / Contrast / Hue / Saturation: Provide basic pixel luma and chroma adjustment.

• Video Range: Expands the pixel value range from 16-235 vs 0-255 (full-swing encoding). Set to true to set to full-swing encoding or set to false to pass through the encoding.

  Set to "true" only if you are sure the range of the input is not full-swing. If it is full-swing and you choose "true", the blacks and whites in the output are clipped.

• Color Space Conversion: Adjusts pixel values from input to output color space (e.g. REC-601).

  • Set to "None" to perform no conversion.

  • Set to "Force 601" or "Force 709" to convert inputs with differing colorspaces. When choosing either of these options, either the metadata must specify the colorspace of the input or you must manually specify that colorspace via the Color Space field in the Video Selector section. If the input colorspace is not specified in one of these ways, the encoder ignores the selected value and does not do any conversion.

Recommendations

Color adjustment does not affect output quality so there are no specific recommendations.

Location of Fields

The following table lists each field by its location on the web interface and shows the location of the corresponding tag in the XML.

Location of Field on Web Interface	Location of Tag in XML
Input > Video Selector > Color Space	input/video_selector/color_space
Stream – Video > Advanced > Preprocessors > Color Corrector > Brightness	stream_assembly/video_description/video_preprocessor/ color_corrector/brightness
Stream – Video > Advanced > Preprocessors > Color Corrector > Contrast	stream_assembly/video_description/video_preprocessor/ color_corrector/contrast
Stream – Video > Advanced > Preprocessors > Color Corrector > Hue	stream_assembly/video_description/video_preprocessor/ color_corrector/hue
Stream – Video > Advanced > Preprocessors > Color Corrector > Saturation	stream_assembly/video_description/video_preprocessor/ color_corrector/saturation
Stream – Video > Advanced > Preprocessors > Color Corrector > Video Range	stream_assembly/video_description/video_preprocessor/ color_corrector/full_swing
Stream – Video > Advanced > Preprocessors > Color Corrector > Color Space Conversion	stream_assembly/video_description/video_preprocessor/ color_corrector/color_space_conversion