As the media landscape continues to rapidly evolve, the demand for agile and precise QC and monitoring solutions has become paramount. At this year’s NAB Show (April 6-9 in Las Vegas, Booth W1921), Interra Systems will demonstrate how the company’s continuous innovation effectively addresses this need.
Visitors to the Interra Systems booth will also learn about the latest strides the company has made in end-to-end video quality monitoring, content-aware quality control, advanced captioning, and in-depth video analysis. Harnessing the latest technologies, Interra Systems’ cutting-edge solutions enhance accuracy and efficiency, set new standards in QC and monitoring performance, and empower customers to optimize their workflows for peak video quality.
Interra Systems Marks a Milestone: 25 Years of Pioneering Media Technology
As Interra Systems celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, the company remains dedicated to driving innovation within the media industry. Interra Systems’ legacy of cutting-edge solution development makes it a leader in video and audio performance enhancement across IP and OTT platforms. The company’s comprehensive portfolio is proof of its commitment to providing unparalleled quality, ensuring that its clients can deliver exceptional media experiences worldwide.
“We’ll be commemorating our 25-year anniversary at NAB 2025, where we’ll present our latest innovations that enhance every aspect of media workflows,” said Anupama Anantharaman, vice president of product management at Interra Systems. “Our high-density, scalable solutions set industry benchmarks in media QC and monitoring, while our AI-driven tools demonstrate why global leaders in broadcasting and service provision rely on us to streamline workflows and deliver high-quality content faster.”
Interra Systems Solutions on Display at the 2025 NAB Show:
ORION Content Monitoring Suite for Exceptional Video Quality and Flawless Media Delivery
At the 2025 NAB Show, Interra Systems will spotlight the ORION suite’s latest capabilities, including a state-of-the-art multiviewer feature that transforms monitoring by enabling real-time visualization of multiple video and audio streams. This tool not only ensures seamless quality control and efficient workflow management but also allows operators to quickly verify alerts and resolve issues, thereby maintaining high broadcast integrity with greater accuracy and efficiency.
Alongside the multiviewer, ORION-OTT offers real-time monitoring of both linear and IP-based infrastructures and a comprehensive monitoring solution for live and VOD assets. Designed for flexible deployment across various environments and supporting an array of formats and protocols, the solution now features industry-first, all-frame decoding and deep-dive analysis for critical channels — significantly improving video quality checks and service playback.
In addition, the ORION suite now includes support for RHEL 8.10, Rocky 8.10, Dolby Atmos, IPv6, and more. The suite also boasts end-to-end ad insertion monitoring, which enhances workflow visibility from pretranscode to edge by comparing externally supplied ad scheduling information with actual DAI markers. Updates include closed caption availability reports, enhanced QoS and QoE scoring, comprehensive DRM integration, and flexibility in deployment models.
ORION Central Manager (OCM) for End-to-End Workflow Visibility
OCM, Interra Systems’ flagship video monitoring and management solution, provides quality tracing that monitors service quality and pinpoints issues across various stages of the video workflow. New features at the 2025 NAB Show will include advanced probe management and improved user group permissions, ensuring both efficient and secure video operations.
BATON 9.2 for Enhancing QC Workflows
At the 2025 NAB Show, Interra Systems will showcase its latest BATON solution — BATON 9.2. This new version includes enhanced autoscaling, enhanced video quality checks for 4K files, and new support for video quality, such as blank bars check and CIE color gamut check. It accommodates ITU-R BT.1702 2023 PSE video flash guidelines and contains algorithm improvements in QR code, freeze frames, duplicate frames, media offline, blockiness, defective pixels, video dropout, burnt-in text, shot transition, and more.
BATON 9.2 also supports Sony 360 Reality Audio, LZW compression in TIFF files, AV1 video format, BW64 audio, 24-bit LPCM audio in an MP4 container, sidecar Dolby Vision metadata files, an integrated Whisper model for audio language identification, and more. The latest BATON release also features significant installation process improvements for enhanced usability and resilience, along with UI support for dark/light themes, a new database manager tool, and enhanced diagnostics and alerts.
Featuring advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, this updated version of BATON promises to continue leading the industry in automated QC platforms, meeting the highest standards for quality and compliance.
BATON Captions – Now With NEW Features
Interra Systems will also demonstrate advanced new updates to its award-winning BATON Captions solution — including caption placement as per scene change guidelines to avoid burnt-in text overlap and a host of QC and correction features. All of the updates take advantage of cutting-edge machine learning, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing technology. A new UI layout comes with many new features, including an integrated relay workflow service; vertical zoom on audio waveform; and intelligent caption segmentation during review, which enables automatic splitting, merging, and resegmentation based on properties such as row count and character count while adhering to clause boundaries and natural pauses.
VEGA Media Analyzer (VMA) for Deeper Media Analysis
Interra Systems’ VEGA represents the pinnacle of technology for standards compliance, debugging, and stream interoperability assurance. The platform has been enhanced to support an extensive range of compression standards, including the latest in VVC, AV1, HEVC, MV-HEVC, AVS3, HDR, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, ATSC 3.0, and more.
This broad compatibility reinforces VEGA’s role as a critical industry tool. The platform’s comprehensive capabilities enable media professionals to navigate the complexities of various video formats and standards with ease, ensuring high-quality content delivery across different platforms and devices.
Interra Systems to Present at 2025 NAB Show BEIT Conference
- At this year’s NAB Show, Interra Systems’ principal engineer, Jeff Ross, will give a presentation at the BEIT Conference that will explore “How AI Is Transforming Caption Quality Assurance.” The 50-minute session will take place on April 6 at 9:50 a.m. PDT in Room W220-W221. More information can be found here: mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions/session-details.cfm?scheduleid=143
- Saurabh Jain, director of strategic partnerships at Interra Systems, will also give a presentation at the conference. The session, titled “Verifying Video Signals Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning Techniques,” will take place on April 7 from 11:40 a.m. to noon PDT in Room W220-W221. Full details are available here: mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions/session-details.cfm?scheduleid=146
Company Overview:
Celebrating 25 years of excellence in 2025, Interra Systems is a global leader in end-to-end quality assurance for the evolving media industry. The company is a one-stop shop for broadcasters, streaming service providers, and other media companies as they work to ensure quality, accuracy, and compliance at every stage of their IP and OTT workflows. Interra Systems’ advanced video analysis, automated QC, captioning, and end-to-end monitoring tools have become essential for some of the world’s top media companies.
Interra Systems’ award-winning portfolio includes the enterprise-class BATON automated QC system; BATON Captions with live captioning and ML scoring capabilities; ORION content monitoring platforms for 24/7 quality assurance; and VEGA media analyzers for in-depth video inspection, debugging, and standards compliance.
For more information, visit www.interrasystems.com.
