Ultrascope…

[Thomas Wong]

always been a huge fan of dell monitors, great bang for the buck. if only their actual towers were as good…

Probably gonna build myself a shuttle pc for portability. I can use it on my resolve and DIT cart when I go on set. should be cheap, micro atx case, i5 motherboard, cheapest i5 chip, 9800 gt, and 6 gb of ram, and a 64 gb SSD should do the trick. should cost only about 500 bux or so. the 24 inch dell, and ultrascope will be the most costly items… but everybody seems to be giving it a good review so I think it’s totally worth it.

[Illya Laney]

Yeah, Dell’s are awesome if you get the right models. Let me know how your setup works out. Not sure if I want to replace my hardware scopes yet, but if BMD improves on the Ultrascope I’d probably be down to get one.

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[Thomas Wong]

Hey thanks for the heads up about the crossfire. I’ll probably go nvidia route, it’s easy to disable SLI in the motherboard. Will take me a bit to get this together, spent all my money doing the Resolve upgrade. Would take me even longer to save up for full on hardware scopes. I feel like there’s more flexibility, and functionality in building a small shuttle pc too, at least I can use it for other things…

[Jay Moffat]

[Alex Borges] “I built mine with a Shuttle PC, and it works great, and it takes little space,”

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Hi Alex, been looking into the same thing myself, however I saw at the end of that post you mention that the author had problems after an update and it no loner worked, could you possibly provide your exact spec on the Forum to aid others looking to build a more space saving Ultrascope system: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/871922

That would be grand…!

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[Jay Moffat]

Excellent, thanks Alex

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[Darin Wooldridge]

I’m running mine on a xw8200 with a home built touch screen lcd… It’s so nice to look over while playing realtime and see the scope updating as it should.. Touch the screen and expand..

Love it… I still miss the hardware scopes i use at work, but it far better than the internal ones.

I found the internals did not match the sdi output when selecting normally scaled video.
The scaling is done downstream and does not show up in the internals scopes.. For this reason, as well as the performance loss i opted to go with the ultra scope..

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
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[Sascha Haber]

Yep, that scaling issue should be addressed.
I even suggest having the scope show what happens AFTER the output node.
So when you use a sloppy quicktime codec, it should show the result of the file, not the grading timeline.

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