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Knowing Your Scopes: When to Trust Your Eye and the Most Useful Scopes of All

05.11.13 @ 6:48PM Tags : color, colorcorrection, colorgrading, colorscience, colortiming, grading, monitor, post, postproduction, provideocoalition, scopes, timing, vectorscope, waveform

Depending on the acquisition system, waveform monitors and vectorscopes can guide quality control of your imagery from shooting all the way down the pipeline to grading, mastering, and compression for delivery. Scopes can seem a little intimidating and esoteric to the new user, but getting the basics down can really help in owning your image. Recently, Alexis Van Hurkman over at ProVideo Coalition has answered some key questions about scopes: find out which ones he considers the most indispensable below, plus when it may be a good idea to trust your own pair of eyes in making adjustments — even when your scopes are reading ‘A-Okay.’ More »

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Your iPhone is a Light Meter, Waveform Monitor, and False-Color Display with $5 Cine Meter App

01.23.13 @ 7:38PM Tags : app, apple, apps, cinematography, cinemeter, digital, display, falsecolor, ios, ipad, iphone, ipod, ipodtouch, lighting, lightmeter, mobile, monitor, production, shooting, smartphone, waveform

Talk about your digital leatherman: The number of ridiculously handy — and practical, and portable, all in one — apps for filmmaking on mobile devices is probably one of the greatest tech-vantages we’ve got going for us these days second to low-cost high-res acquisition. Uses range from lighting plot diagramming and shooting scheduling all the way to Canon DSLR control via Android and RED control via iOS — there’s an app for all that, and more. Now, thanks to Adam Wilt of Pro Video Coalition (and a lot of other great stuff), your iPhone is now more of an asset on set than ever before — and that’s because his new $5 app Cine Meter turns your iOS device into a light meter, waveform monitor and false-color display. More »

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Scopebox 3.0 On-Set Monitoring and Recording Software Drops from $700 to $99

05.4.11 @ 6:51PM Tags : monitoring, nab2011, scopebox, software, vectorscope, waveform

When Divergent Media’s Scopebox was released a few years ago, it was a $700 piece of software that was fairly unique at the time: a way to turn any Mac laptop into, well… a box of scopes. Waveforms, vectorscopes, and RGB parades were handy on-set aides, and though similar to Adobe OnLocation (now bundled as part of Premiere Pro), the fact that the forthcoming version 3.0 of the software will drop the price from $700 to $99 makes it a new ball game. More »