Scopes in Final Cut are different from Machine to Machine.

[Shane Ross]

Swap out graphics cards…from one machine to the next. If the issue follows the card…and I think it might…then that will be the issue. Worth a shot.

Shane

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[Steve Cohen]

[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?”

The projects are brighter.
Look at the attached images.
This is the same project on the same frame, the same color correction and filters are on both.

All I did was open it in edit 3 park it on a frame and take a snapshot.
Then I opened it in Edit 4, parked it on the same frame and took another snapshot.

The scope display settings that Andy referred to are the same on both systems.

Edit 3…

Edit 4…

I have not had a chance to switch systems or graphics cards yet.

Steve Cohen
Supervisor of Post Production
O2 Media Inc.

[Shane Ross]

Steve…the scopes all read the same. Nothing is different. Both read the same IRE. The brightness on one is just more than the other. Right below the word LAYOUT, on the upper left…click on those boxes and you can adjust the brightness level.

And yes, the Canvas is differently bright in both. that is a graphics card and monitor settings issue. Notice that the grey on the top image is darker than the grey on the lower image…the grey in the area OUTSIDE of the actual video image, in the CANVAS area. It should be the same grey level, but it isn’t. This is a monitor setting.

And SHAME on you for using the Canvas to judge the quality of your image. I could understand your concern when it was that you thought that your video scopes were reading different video levels, but they aren’t. They are the same…just one is set brighter than the other. But the picture brightness? Again, monitor settings.

Shane

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[Steve Cohen]

[Shane Ross] “And SHAME on you for using the Canvas to judge the quality of your image”

Shane I’ll accept you reprimand about the canvas.
I am not setting in the editors chair any more and took my editors word about the scope difference.

I admit these levels were the same, but I know I did see an instance where a scene was legal in one room and then in the other the pink shirt the host was wearing was off the vector scope.

I’ll have to find a better example, because I know I’m not crazy I did see a difference between the 2 rooms.

Steve Cohen
Supervisor of Post Production
O2 Media Inc.