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Scopebox 3.0
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Feature set is similar and interface is much more robust. Very customizable. I would go with Scopebox if I can confirm accuracy.
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Hi Mike,
I’m playing around with the trial and am very impressed. At that price point it’s hard not to pick it up.
It’s a great interface. And am able to get 444 2k in which is awesome. One problem I’m having is trying to record anything other than the native codec, using prores 4:4:4:4 to record RGB sources give me pretty much garbage. If I record BMD RBG 10bit codec it works fine.
The record function isn’t critical… as we could use MediaExpress, just strange that the scopes look right but record is screwy. Otherwise great product. Really impressive.
-Juan
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Sent. Thanks for the quick reply Mike.
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Very interesting product.
How much does it push a modern MacBook Pro 2011? This would be a very flexible and cheap solution for adding scopes to our studio(s) as both our editors have a MacBook Pro 2011 as a “side machine”. We’d just have to add something like the Intensity Extreme, UltraStudio 3D or AJA Io XT for i/o. Would it be unrecomended going SDI > HDMI for monitoring purposes? The Intensity Extreme is such a cheap product and we already have SDI > HDM in the studio for monitoring tot he HD-screen for clients.
The only problem is if the app / solution really pushes the CPU / GPU of the MacBook Pro the fans go nuts and that would render the solution less optimal.
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WOW
I just downloaded the Scopebox 3 demo and it is fantastic!! Great update to a great scope that I use every day already!!
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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It doesn’t seem to push the CPU much just monitoring. My guess is it’s mostly GPU based. I’ve been playing with it on a Mac Pro and it handles 2k fine.
That said… I don’t know if the MacBook Pro GPU is beefy enough.
Also HDMI is not a reliable way to check levels.
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We actually don’t use the GPU for much math, only for compositing the window and doing styling on the traces and such. The speed is possible because of a custom video pipeline we wrote called AKE – the Adaptive Kernel Engine. It’s kind of like OpenCl/ CUDA but it runs on the CPU.
What this means is that any modern GPU will be fine for ScopeBox, including any shipping laptop. That said, if you are doing big enough frame sizes/ enough palettes/ 10bit sources etc, it’s possible you’ll stress a laptop enough to kick the fans on. Where that threshold is will depend on all of the above variables. All I can say from our testing in house is that the bigger laptops (15-17in) seem to run much cooler under load (and spin up the fans less often) than the small macbook airs.
A great option for cheap configs which will run quietly are the mac minis with a thunderbolt device. We’ve tested all the shipping minis with the BMD UltraStudio3D, and they ran great.
mike
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Mike Woodworth
CEO and Lead Developer
divergent media, inc.
email : mike@divergentmedia.com
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It runs really well on my 17″ i7 2.4Ghz Thunderbolt Macbook Pro.
Does it run well on the cheaper ($599.00 intel integrated GPU) Mac-Mini with 10-bit, 1920×1200 display multiple palates etc?
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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We did a day of testing at Apple’s test facility recently, and all the minis were good and responsive. The only slow down we know of with the intel integrated GPUs is with our focus assist overlay on previews. My guess is that won’t be too sorely missed in the DI.
mike
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Mike Woodworth
CEO and Lead Developer
divergent media, inc.
email : mike@divergentmedia.com
web : https://www.divergentmedia.com
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