Scopes in Final Cut are different from Machine to Machine.

[Shane Ross]

This might just be the proof needed to tell people WHY the scopes in FCP are not to be relied on.

But I don’t know the answer to your question.

Shane

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[Chad Brewer]

Or,
It shouldn’t have anything to do with your graphics card, but it could have something to do with your capture card, e.g. AJA, Blackmagic, etc. These cards have settings for black IRE setup and some input processing that if are not set to 7.5 IRE for black and other input processes are turned off then you could be seeing discrepancies.
Or,
Shane is right again.

Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator/Engineer
TeleVersions

[Steve Cohen]

All edit suites have BlackMagic MultiBridge capture devices.
The only difference between the other systems and the one that is off is that the other systems are MultiBridge Extreme and this is a MultiBridge Pro.

Our footage is captured at out ingest station that has a MultiBridge Extreme and stored on a SAN that can be accessed by any room.

Open the project in Edit 3 the scopes show 1 thing and the open it in Edit 4 the new suite and the scopes show something different.

Steve Cohen
Supervisor of Post Production
O2 Media Inc.

[John Pale]

If it’s feasible, swap computers and see if the discrepancy follows the computer.

If it doesn’t, it could be a cabling issue or some other type of gremlin

[Kris Merkel]

What are you using for your reference image? In order to check the calibration you will need something definitive to calibrate to.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you have range check or any other overlays on the problem system that aren’t on in the other systems?

What exactly is the discrepancy?

[Andy Mees]

Hey Steve
How different … or different how? Would be best to post screen shots if you can. Or could it just be that your scope settings are different?

Cheers
Andy

[Steve Cohen]

[John Pale] “If it’s feasible, swap computers and see if the discrepancy follows the computer.”

Switching computers is a little more difficult.
The newer systems has the mini display ports were the other systems all have DVI and VGA outputs and all of our monitors (except the 2 in the new suite) are DVI connections.

I’ll see what I can do about switching systems.

Steve Cohen
Supervisor of Post Production
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

I will double check the scope settings and I have my editors pulling screen shots of the same frame from the same project on each system to post.

Thanks for the help.

Steve Cohen
Supervisor of Post Production
O2 Media Inc.

[Kris Merkel]

Do you have bars, from the recording of the project, to test on the scopes?

Kris Merkel
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