It was nearly one year ago, at NAB 2011, when we saw the first look at a new version of ScopeBox, the video scope analysis, measuring, monitoring and capture tool from divergent media. The biggest news about this ScopeBox 3.0 upgrade is probably price - it is several hundred dollars cheaper than it used to be. While the application is capable of being used as an on-set monitoring and capture device many in the post-production world repurpose older Mac Pros (including G5s since they are supported by ScopeBox) and a compatible video card to be a dedicated ScopeBox machine.Īt $99 it's an easy decision to make if you are in need of software scopes to for any number of reasons. The only real equivalent that I can think of is the Blackmagic Design UltraScope. You can open all sorts of things in Scopebox 2.0 including a waveform, vectorscope, rgb parade, yuv parade, vu meters, luma and rgb histograms and timecode. ScopeBox gives you a user-configurable interface with a full complement of scopes available including waveform, vectorscope, YUV parade, RGB parade, RGB histogram, audio meter, luma histogram and channel plot. While those are the most common things you'll want when using ScopeBox in post it offers a number of options for production as well (in addition to those same video scopes). There are options for focus assist, alerts and overlays that can show problems with exposure. It can transcode video in real time into both ProRes and DNxHD, among other codecs. You no longer need an SDI cable out of the monitor or LUT box into your second computer, and then an SDI ingest board. Real-time transcode will probably require some good horsepower but oh, how your editor will love you when you hand him/her ready-to-edit files when you're shooting with some strange camera-of-the-month. ScopeStream works over your network, either ethernet or wifi, and sends waveform and vendor scopes from your monitor or BoxIO to a nearby computer. The targets are plus and minus 5 degrees and 5 saturation. The boxes show where the signal should land when displaying the standard SMPTE color bars signal, providing a guide for evaluating saturation. All the standard points are boxed red, magenta, blue, cyan, green and yellow. The markers on the Vectorscope (R, Y, B, etc) indicate colors. The markers include color points (for standard bar checks) at 75 and 100 saturation. This solution replaces traditional hardware waveforms, vectorscopes, preview monitors and direct-to-disk recording tools. Vectorscope - Color accurate graticules automatically switch between SD (601), HD (709) and 4K/QHD (709 or 2020) color spaces. There's some cool features included in ScopeBox for those that might be using it primarily in an edit suite or color-correction bay. Divergent Media has announced the immediate availability of ScopeBox, the first suite of Mac-based image monitoring, capture and analysis software for video production and post production.
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