The scan comes first.
It names each problem and where it is before a single sample changes.
For film
Solipsium scans a scene for noise, hum, clipping, clicks and dropouts. It runs the repairs chosen by tests on damaged speech and lists each change with its start and end time.
What it repairs
Before anything changes, a scan lists each problem and when it happens. Suggested repair then runs the repairs that measured best on that kind of damage.
For traffic, air handling or a hard room, a speech model turns the noise down around the voice.
Mains hum at 50 or 60 Hz and its harmonics, found by measurement and notched out in bands a few hertz wide.
Flattened peaks are partly raised back from the undamaged samples around them.
Gaps of digital silence up to 100 ms are filled from the sound on each side and marked as estimated.
Treble lost to a phone line or a file saved at 16 kHz is rebuilt across the whole recording unless the scan finds damage other than steady noise. In the editor, AudioSR rebuilds passages of up to 60 seconds, and rebuilt treble is marked as inferred.
A file can be up to 30 minutes and 1 GB, mono or stereo, so a feature goes in reel by reel.
How it differs
The numbers below include the recordings it made worse.
It names each problem and where it is before a single sample changes.
If no repair measured better on a kind of damage, that damage stays as it was.
Each repair is listed with its start and end time. Rebuilt treble is marked as inferred, and filled gaps as estimated.
90.8%
of 1,344 damaged test recordings came out better with the engine of September 29, and 1.4% came out worse. The strongest single tool, run on every recording, made 51.8% better and 46.4% worse. See the engine at work
The credit
If Solipsium processed a film's sound, the film may show this badge. It is free and optional, and either side can withdraw it.
SOLIPSIUM is a trademark of its owner.
“Enhanced” names the engine that processed the sound; it is not a promise about the result. The badge is a credit and not a certification, because nothing was tested against a standard.
Using the badge
Ivory (reversed), for end credits over black or a dark picture.
Gold and ivory (primary), for near-black backgrounds such as a poster or a website.
Ink, for light backgrounds and print.
First, ask for a yes. Send the film's title, what Solipsium processed, where the badge will appear and whether the release is commercial to:
Then use the files in the kit. It has every version as SVG with outlined letters and as transparent PNG 4000 pixels wide for film, and each has a compact version without AUDIO ENGINE for small sizes. The full rules and the licence are inside.
Download the kitZIP, about 1 MB.
Limits
If you run a studio or post house, tell us what an offline build would need to do:
Make a free account, upload the scene, and compare each repair with the original before you keep it.
Free account, no card.