Hybrik
Optimize your content for every screen with integrated transcoding and quality control.
Today’s media workflows require creating dozens of different versions of every piece of content — different sizes, bit rates, languages, and formats targeting desktop and mobile devices, as well as cinema and TV. Hybrik is a fast, high-quality, cost-effective solution that lets you easily generate all the files you need, using world-class technologies like Dolby Vision® and Dolby Atmos®.
And because there is simply no time for human resources to review the multitude of files produced, automated quality control has become a critical component of enterprise media workflows. Hybrik provides media analysis and quality control to ascertain whether content coming into your workflows meets your standards and ensure that every file you deliver is perfect.
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Hybrik delivers
World-class transcoding
Automated quality control
The formats you need
Maximize your media
World-class Dolby technology
Hybrik helps you look and sound your best, with Dolby Vision for more accurate, lifelike color, and Dolby Atmos for outstanding multidimensional sound.
Output optimized for every screen
Hybrik delivers the optimum quality for every output — from cinema screens to phones. Automated quality control can compare the visual quality of the output to your input to ensure the best viewing experience.
Massive scale and accelerated speed
Hybrik can handle any size workload by scaling to thousands of machines. Individual files can be split across multiple machines to accelerate even the most complex workflows like UHD and HDR outputs.
Optimum security
Hybrik supports both Amazon AWS and the Google Cloud Platform. All storage and processing occurs in your own, secure cloud account.
Easy integration and automation
Hybrik can be completely integrated with your existing workflows using our REST-based API.
Save time and money
Hybrik is typically 10x more cost effective than alternate solutions.
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Transcoding features
Control dashboard |
See info about jobs, tasks, machines, costs, and more, all in one place |
Machine management |
Control computing groups by region, machine type, software version, and more, with job tagging for routing specific jobs to specific machine groups |

Multiple cloud support
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Support transcoding engines on Amazon AWS and Google GCP, with support for data on Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, Wasabi, and more |
REST API |
Integrate full programmatic control into your workflows |
Failover |
Automatically handle machine failover, even using inexpensive spot machines |
SNS messaging |
Receive notifications tracking job and task progress |
Service level |
99.9% SLA |
ABR packaging |
Use HLS and DASH packaging including encryption; modify bitrates with content-aware encoding |
Stitching |
Combine multiple files, including alternate audio files |
Trimming |
Remove unwanted content; can be part of a stitching operation to create edit decisions |
Audio mapping |
Change audio track and channel configuration, including track naming and language assignment |
Transmuxing |
Convert content without re-encoding |
Standards conversion |
Convert between different broadcast standards and automatically detect telecine patterns |
IMF support |
Create output from IMF master files |
Dolby Vision |
Distribute computing over many machines to rapidly create high-quality Dolby Vision® HDR outputs |
PCR, PMT, PAT Control |
Control PCR and PMT PIDs; control PCR, PMT, and PAT intervals |
Color space conversion |
Convert between any color space, including support for SDR and HDR color; control color primaries, transfer characteristics, and color matrix |
Timecode |
Insert timecode metadata; visual imprint timecode |
Keyframe control |
Precisely control GOP sizes and keyframe locations |
Thumbnails |
Create one or more thumbnails with control over size, quality, number, naming, and more |
Media analysis |
Analyze files for a variety of parameters, including black detection, silence detection, blockiness, and more |
Subtitles and captions |
Support a wide range of formats, including DVB, SRT, SCC, EBU-TT, SMPTE-TT, DFXP, and WebVTT; burn subtitles into video or keep them as a separate data track |
Text and image overlays |
Imprint text or images on top of video |
Invisible watermarking |
Add invisible audio and video watermarking through Nielsen and NexGuard |
Smart splitting |
Automatically distribute ABR layers to different machines to maximize throughput while minimizing cost |
Audio normalization |
Manage loudness through the EBU R.128 standard; control integrated, LRA, and true peak LUFs |
Cropping |
Automatically remove letter-boxing or pillar-boxing |
Fades |
Fade video and audio in and/or out |
DPP packaging |
Use the AS-11 standard of the Digital Production Partnership |
BIF creation |
Create Roku BIF files for smart scrubbing on Roku devices |
Watchfolders |
Automatically trigger jobs on file arrival, with support for folder enumeration to create jobs from volumes of content |
On-premise sources |
Support local sources through SwiftStack or Cloudian |
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Automated media analysis and quality control ensures that every file you deliver meets your high standards.
QC features
File metadata |
Analyze general metadata about files, including size, format, duration, tracks, and more, including detailed information about bit rates, channels, languages, and metadata |
Audio levels |
Set limits on RMS peaks and levels |
Silence detection |
Detect sections of silence and set limits on the maximum duration of silence, as well as the dB level that triggers silence detection |
Audio normalization |
Use EBU R.128 normalization analysis; set QC limits on integrated LUFS, threshold, loudness LRA, low, high, and true peak values |
Black detection |
Detect sections of black, set limits on the maximum duration of black sections, and customize determination of black |
Border detection |
Detect letter-boxed and pillar-boxed content |
Interlacing analysis |
Determine frame-by-frame if content is interlaced and set QC limits on the total percentage of interlaced or progressive content |
Video levels |
Analyze content for broadcast safe values and identify min, max, and mean values and positions |
HDR analysis |
Analyze HDR content to determine MaxCLL and MaxFALL values and set QC set on these values |
Blockiness analysis |
Analyze content to identify poorly encoded source files with blockiness artifacts that typically result from low bit rate encodes |
Content variance |
Analyze files to determine the amount of variance in the content, which is an indicator of encoding complexity |
Scene detection |
Identify the locations of scene changes in a file and set QC limits on what triggers a scene-change detection |
Bit-rate analysis |
Analyze content to determine the data rate over a period, seeing sample data for each window period; analyze GOP frame sizes |
Video comparative analysis |
Compare two videos using Netflix VMAF, SSIM, or PSNR; determine whether a particular encoding meets target quality standards |
Audio comparative analysis |
Compare two pieces of audio content using PSNR to determine their similarity level; determine whether audio meets quality standards |
PSE trigger detection |
Identify potential Photosensitive Epilepsy Trigger issues caused by content with flashes |
Manual review and approval |
Manually control the QC process; automatically move files flagged for review to a queue for manual verification |
QC player |
Trigger and manage jobs that would normally not be playable from the cloud with the Hybrik QC Player; eliminate the need for file download by transcoding files to live proxies for review |
QC reports |
Automatically generate PDF QC reports for jobs that have failed |
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CONTAINERS |
VIDEO |
AUDIO |
SUBTITLES |
HDR |
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ASF |
DNxHD |
AAC-LC |
DFXP |
Dolby Vision |
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HLS |
DV25 |
HE-AAC v1 |
DVB |
HDR-10 |
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IMF |
DV50 |
HE-AAC v2 |
EBU-TT |
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MPEG-DASH |
H.263 |
AC-3 |
ITT |
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MKV |
H.264 |
Dolby Atmos |
SCC |
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MOV |
H.265 |
Dolby E |
SMPTE-TT |
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MP4 |
HuffYUV |
MP2 |
SRT |
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MPEG-PS |
JPEG2000 |
MP3 |
WebVTT |
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MPEG-TS |
MJPEG |
Opus |
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MXF |
MPEG-1 |
SMPTE 302M |
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MS-smooth streaming |
MPEG-2 |
Vorbis |
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VOB |
MPEG-4 |
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WebM-DASH |
ProRes |
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VP8 |
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VP9 |
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RESTful API
Every element of the Hybrik workflow can be managed through a RESTful API. This includes transcoding, quality control, data transfers, etc. Even complex workflows with conditional execution and scripting can be designed and implemented using the Hybrik API. When defining transcodes through the API, users can reference pre-configured presets or explicitly define the complete encode pipeline. The API uses JSON structures for the definition of each element.
