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Monday, April 20, 2009
Blackmagic’s UltraScope; first 3 Gb/s SDI + optical fiber SDI scopes for editors and colorists
Allan Tépper | 04/20
At NAB 2009, Blackmagic Design announced their UltraScope. In the manufacturer’s words: “The world’s first 3 Gb/s SDI and optical fiber SDI scopes designed for editors and colorists, with the technical accuracy broadcast engineers will love for only US$695!” Blackmagic continues, saying: “Simply plug into any compatible Windows computer with a 24-inch monitor, and Blackmagic UltraScope will display 6 live scope views simultaneously! UltraScope is engineering accurate and includes 3 Gb/s SDI plus 3 Gb/s optical fiber SDI. UltraScope auto detects SD, HD and 3 Gb/s SDI inputs.” For everyone’s sake, I hope Blackmagic Design creates a Mac version by the time the product ships in June… although at that price, if even Blackmagic doesn’t make a Mac version, some producers who generally prefer MacOS may well decide to dedicate a Windows computer just for this task.
UltraScope is a PCIe card. More specifically, it is a PCI Express 1 lane, compatible with 1, 4, 8, and 16 PCIe slots. It includes several views, including parade, waveform, component vectorscope, histogram, audio, and picture view, as you will see below:
Parade display
Waveform monitor display
Component vectorscope display
Histogram display
Audio display
Picture display with VITC timecode
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Why would you want a Mac version here? The PC isn’t being used as a computer, it’s just there to add, as cheaply as possible, power, monitoring, etc. You would not use this computer for anything else—it becomes part of the device.
Grant as always has come up with a clever device that many people will need. At a price that’s 1/5 of what most of us would willingly pay!
Posted by Jeff Kreines on 04/20 at 08:23 PM
How do you use this for a field monitor? Is it connected between the camera output and the recording device input?
How do you use it while editing on a Mac?
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