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RedRock Bundles ScopeBox Lite With M2
Published by Kendal Miller February 28th, 2007 in News, Production, Software
Redrock recently announced that they would begin packaging ScopeBox Lite with their well known M2 Micro35 Adapter. ScopeBox is a software used to take SD/HD signals and ingest them using a standard Firewire interface, allowing you to monitor a high res output on your laptop or computer. It also includes a full array of tools and scopes to monitor your signal and make adjustments on the fly, you can also use the app to record direct to disk. I recently tested this app on a shoot I was working on and found the toolset to be an incredible asset and deadly accurate. According to RedRock’s Brian Valente, “The Lite version is the field monitor only, which includes the flip function. It is offered as part of our M2 adapter kit at no cost, so you can have a great field monitor with rightside up image at no extra cost.” Thanks Brian!!
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I have to say I think it’s pretty lame to “advertise” functionality for these ScopeBox guys that doesn’t exist. I downloaded ScopeBox, but there is no HDV support. I haven’t visited this site much so I’m not sure what Freshdv’s angle is, but it reads like an advertisement. What are your rates?
Sorry you feel that way Matt, I wasn’t advertising anything but rather giving my honest opinion as a user, we have no “Rates” so to speak. Scopebox itself is actually the SubStory of the article, with the main jest being RedRock’s bundling of the lite version of the software with their product. This was only intended to be a quick explanation of what scopebox was about to reader’s unfamiliar with it.
Sorry about the HDV stream mis information, you are correct currently HDV is unsupported.
Kendal, if it can’t do HD, can you fix the post then? Like, cross out the HD in the phrase “a software used to take SD/HD signals”?
I love FresHDV and definitely don’t think you’re doing some kind of weird advertising thing. But if you fixed the post, it’d help.
Bruce
It will take HD signals just not HDV… (Which I modified in the original post.) I used it for DVCPRO-HD out of the HVX-200 personally. There is no advertising involved guys I just really liked the product, I’m sorry it come across that way. I was in Seattle on a shoot a few weeks ago and I was very impressed with the performance then when Brian emailed me I was doubly excited because I think it would be a great tool for RedRock users.
Thanks Kendal for the clarification! I didn’t know it could do DVCPROHD. Their site is a not clear. They shouldn’t just say “we take any Quicktime source” if they don’t. Because then I doubt that they can do HD at all… can they do Blackmagic Intensity?
I also wonder if they support audio from a separate Quicktime source - eg a firewire card that’s getting a high-quality analog or even digital input from the sound guy’s mixer. To my mind it’d be worth the hassle of using a laptop for recording if I get synchronized dual system sound…
Of course it’d be nice if Apple made a SFF Mac, like Shuttle does for PCs (eg with space for 3 hard drives, plus some PCIe slots and eSATA ports) - then we could use a Blackmagic Intensity and do portable HDMI captures sans compression (or maybe adding slight compression in realtime, as Cineform or Premiere on PC can), while simultaneously recording synchronized sound from the mixer… we can only dream, right? Or I could get another PC, I guess! But I was looking forward to buying my first Mac one day…
Hopefully someone’ll solve this… or do you think that, with external PCI, external GFX card support etc coming, in a year or two laptops will have the bandwidth / storage chain available to just do this?
Ah, computers! So far to go still… but at least we are getting close.
Bruce