Two Cams are Better Than One
You're not limited to a single source open at a time. Open as many cameras as you like, match exposures, see all the cameras from the shoot on one screen. QuickTime movies too - open your storyboards or previz and follow along.
A Tool For Every Job
ScopeBox recreates in software every major video quality assurance tool. Each of these can be arranged, resized and customized for your needs. These layouts can be saved and recalled later.
ScopeBox doesn't sacrifice quality. Every palette shows you all your pixels, every scanline - no sampling and no scaling.
Recording
Not only can you monitor your video, you can capture it too. ScopeBox's recorder palette allows you to digitize your video direct to disk. Digitize your incoming signal to QuickTime movie or DV stream. And with buffered record, you'll never miss the start of the shot again. ScopeBox keeps a constant video buffer so your video begins before you even hit record.
Monitoring
See your video in a new light. ScopeBox's video preview shows you every pixel of your image, exactly as you're shooting it. The monitor calibration ensures that the colors you see accurately represent your video as well.
Too Hot to Handle
With the option to overlay Zebras, you can see exactly what in your image is overexposed. Keep an eye on your highlights and make sure you don't lose anything to clipped whites. Combine this with Chroma Zebras which show you what colors are overexposed, and you can quickly light and expose a shot without ever looking away from the preview.
Overlays
To help you frame your shot, ScopeBox includes a number of overlay features. Center marks, rule of thirds, letterbox masks, title safe and graphics safe are all available. In addition, you can overlay any QuickTime movie or image - great for framing greenscreen shots or shooting around lower 3rds or other graphics package elements.
Focus Assist
Right inside the preview palette you can quickly zoom in to see what your pixels look like 1:1 or 2:1. Make sure your focus is spot on, and quickly jump back out to frame the shot and keep shooting.
Scopes
Waveform
Video levels are the key to a well exposed shot. Using a waveform allows you to be confident you're getting the most contrast and definition from the shot. It also makes setting up green screen shots a breeze. ScopeBox is an exact replica of a real waveform. You see an accurate representation of the luminance of every pixel in your video.
Vectorscope
We all want bright vibrant colors, but unfortunately there can be too much of a good thing. A Vectorscope shows you exactly how saturated your colors are, so you'll be sure to have the brightest colors possible, without exceeding broadcast limits. Additionally, you can use the vectorscope to ensure perfect white and black balance, or to ensure the calibration of your video equipment.
RGB Parade
RGB Parade lets you see how each channel of your video is represented in red, green, and blue. Use the RGB Parade in conjunction with the waveform, to track down overexposed parts of your shot, and then tweak them just the right amount.
RGB Histogram
You've probably heard people go on and on about the contrast of a scene. Sometimes it can be hard to see what they're talking about. With the histogram, it's easy! You can see where your colors are concentrated within a scene - are all your reds really dark, while your greens are very bright? Do you have a nice even range of saturation, or is everything concentrated in a big lump? The histogram reveals all!
VU Meter
Nobody likes crunchy audio. Unfortunately, many cameras these days don't give you nearly enough information about the level of your audio - some won't display that information at all! With the VU Meter, you can be sure that your audio isn't too loud or too quiet, with realtime display of the level that's being recorded. Even better, your audio operator can watch the levels that the camera is receiving, without having to bump heads with the camera operator. Peace at last!
Technical
Universal Binary
ScopeBox is a Universal Binary, allowing you take full advantage of your PowerPC or Intel Mac. ScopeBox was designed from the ground up to work great on both towers and laptops.
QuickTime
ScopeBox is designed to work with any QuickTime video capture device: analog, DV, HDV, DVCProHD, SDI, or HD-SDI. If you can use it in QuickTime Player, you can use it as a source in ScopeBox. It also records movies in QuickTime format.
OpenGL
ScopeBox leverages the graphics card of your machine to drastically speed up its calculations.