SVT-AV1 ENCODER FRONTEND

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The only AV1 frontend with HDR-VDP-2, VDP-3 and ICtCp perceptual metrics. Pure C, single EXE. Designed for Topaz Video AI workflows.

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VMAF89.1
SSIM99.8
PSNR44.8
VDP-295.1
VDP-398.4
ICtCp99.7
World exclusive

SIX METRICS.
ONE GRAPH.

VMAF, SSIM, PSNR for standard analysis. HDR-VDP-2 and VDP-3 for human visual system modeling. ICtCp delta-E for HDR color fidelity. All frame-accurate, GPU-accelerated via CUDA cuFFT.

VMAF
89.1
SSIM
99.8
PSNR
44.8
VDP-2
95.1
VDP-3
98.4
ICtCp
99.7
QualityCurve | Both traces
#653 VMAF 86.7 SSIM 99.8 PSNR 37.4 dBVDP-2 85.5 VDP-3 98.6 dE 99.5
14 algorithms

SMART RESOLUTION.
PIXEL-PERFECT.

Auto-align to 8px multiples for SVT-AV1. Each algorithm scored on 7 criteria across 3 contexts. Compare BEFORE/AFTER at up to 32x zoom.

0.42%
Surface loss
8px
Alignment
32x
Max zoom
Scaling algorithms | Generic7 quality criteria
SharpRingTextrSmthGradSpeedIso
EWA Lanczos 4S
9
3
9
2
3
4
9
EWA Lanczos 3
9
6
9
6
8
5
9
Lanczos 3
8
4
8
4
5
7
4
Mitchell-Net.
5
9
6
8
9
9
4
Catmull-Rom
7
5
8
5
6
7
4
Spline 64
8
4
9
3
4
6
4
Area
2
9
3
9
9
9
2
HDR mastery

CIE 1931. WAVEFORM.
FULL HDR PIPELINE.

Logarithmic HDR waveform from 0.1 to 10,000 nits with MaxCLL/MaxFALL references and P10-P90 luminance spread. CIE 1931 chromaticity with BT.709/BT.2020 gamut triangles. Four mitigation modes.

HDR Waveform (nits, log)
CIE 1931 xy
Live monitoring

PER-CORE FREQUENCY.
PER-CORE TEMPERATURE.

Real-time CCD topology for AMD Ryzen. Per-core MHz and temperature with heat-gradient visualization. AMD Ryzen Master SDK and HWiNFO64 shared memory. Assign Chromaster to a dedicated core while workers encode on the rest.

CPU Affinity | Settings tab
Template engine

DISPLAY x CONTENT x PRIORITY.
30+ PARAMETERS. ONE CLICK.

Select your display, content type, and quality tier. Chromaster auto-configures CRF, preset, psychovisual enhancement, variance boost, quantisation matrix, and more.

DISPLAY
OLED
LCD/LED
Proj. LCD
Proj. SXRD
Monitor
Optimized for your panel
CONTENT
Live action
CGI/Digital
Animation
Film grain
Archive
Tailored to your source
PRIORITY
Extreme quality
High quality
Balanced
File size
Quality-to-size preference
Under the hood

BUILT DIFFERENT.

HDR-VDP-2 / VDP-3

Mantiuk et al. perceptual difference predictor in pure C. Multi-scale Cortex decomposition, CSF per band, photoreceptor model. Dynamic CUDA/cuFFT.

ICtCp Delta-E

BT.2100 PQ to LMS to ICtCp perceptual space. Per-pixel distance with LUT-accelerated EOTF/OETF and bilinear 4:2:0 chroma upsampling.

D3D11 + Direct2D

Direct3D 11 GPU compositing. Direct2D + DirectWrite vector UI. CPU framebuffer BGRA8 for waveforms and CIE rasterization. Zero GDI+.

Metadata preservation

Topaz Video AI chain preserved as MKV tags. Chromaster encode parameters as structured JSON. Full command and QA log in container.

Scene detection

Frame difference analysis with configurable threshold. Magnetic cursor snaps to scene boundaries. HDR-aware scene navigation.

Security hardened

Command injection mitigation. Centralized metacharacter filtering. Input sanitization, index clamping, fread validation, UTF-8 safe.

~45k
Lines of C
6
Perceptual metrics
14
Scaling algorithms
30+
Encoder params
0
Dependencies
1
Single .exe
Windows x64Single executableNo installer

GET CHROMASTER.

Auto-detects FFmpeg, FFprobe, SVT-AV1, and MKVmerge.

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