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ScopeBox Changelog

What's new in ScopeBox 4.1.2

Aug 25, 2021
  • Adds AJA device support on Apple Silicon
  • Fixed quantization errors in PQ linearization math (improves accuracy of CIE plot for pq sources)
  • Adds HLG transfer function support
  • Fixes bug that rendered all palettes selected at launch
  • Adds status to toolbar, shows video pipeline compilation state
  • Adds overlay for alerts in timeline view
  • Adds option to toggle envelopes in timeline tracks
  • Adds option to set overlay scale for timeline tracks
  • Adds intensity slider for timeline tracks
  • Fixes bug that would cause timeline playhead to render at wrong position at first launch
  • Adds parsing of audio channel layout metadata (displayed in timeline track labels)
  • Adds estimated time to timeline generation
  • Fixes hang in timeline when alert thresholds are edited mid timeline creation

New in ScopeBox 4.1.1 (Jun 16, 2021)

  • NDI source updated to v5
  • Fixed bug which blocked AJA devices from being discoverable
  • Adds HDMI audio support for AJA devices
  • Fixed crash saving stills on corrupt source
  • Adds tooltip to image galleries to show path to file on disk (Thanks Uli!)
  • Now saves alert settings between launches
  • Fixed crash using alerts on RGB sources
  • Adds color label to alerts (reflected in alert list and timeline)
  • Added option to scroll timeline with playhead (Thanks Ayaz!)
  • Adds ability to scroll timeline by when dragging playhead to edge
  • Fixed bug which caused some movies to render the first audio track in all waveforms (Thanks Juan!)
  • Speed up timeline generation
  • Allows custom thresholds for Loudness alerts
  • Timeline shortcuts activated more consistently (Thanks Tony!)
  • JKL playback controls always active with movie source (Thanks Tony!)
  • Fixed bug recalling full screen layouts on secondary monitors

New in ScopeBox 4.1 (Jun 4, 2021)

  • Apple silicon support – universal m1 support for ScopeBox and all ScopeLink plugins
  • Beta Alert support – adds timecoded alerts for live sources (luma, chroma, and gamut excursions; video slug detection; audio peak and r128 loudness)
  • Beta Timeline support – new timeline view shows timetraces and alerts for intuitive file based QC
  • Layouts can now save and recall source settings (thanks Ronald!)
  • Layouts now save and recall palette overlays
  • Added pref for saving stills as png, jpg, or tiff (thanks James!)
  • Still store captures now round trip with correct color when saved as tiff (they clip super whites/blacks in png or jpg) (thanks Ulrich!)
  • ATEM usb source correctly shows
  • Adds color targets to cie plot and xyy channel plots
  • Color targets are now preserved between launches
  • Fixes possible echo on movie playback preview audio (thanks Edward!)
  • Fixes corrupt frames in macbook 16” (MacBookPro16,1) with 8bit YCbCr formats
  • Fixes brief hang when selecting view or source menu for first time each launch
  • Fixes rare crash when altering settings on CMIO based sources
  • Improves performance of HML palette
  • Improves support for Premiere Pro v15 in ScopeLink (thanks Jesenko!)
  • Improves Resolve ScopeLink support to properly handle out of gamut RGB values (thanks Rikk!)
  • Various performance & stability improvements

New in ScopeBox 4.0.8 (Oct 30, 2020)

  • ScopeBox 4.0.8 changes:
  • Adds custom color setting for Timecode palette text (Thanks Jim, Marc, Evan!)
  • Fixes possible hang when switching RGB parade layouts
  • Changes shading of RGB parade overlay traces to remove blue cast (Thanks Jan, Kevin!)
  • Adds vertical HML palette layout
  • Adds tooltip to see full path info in sidebar
  • Fixes color channel ordering bug in some loaded stills when used as scope overlays
  • Fixes perpetual license update checks (Thanks John!)

New in ScopeBox 4.0.7 (Oct 18, 2020)

  • Adds preliminary NDI source support
  • Now supports resizing palettes from all edges and corners (thanks Marc!)
  • Improved snap to grid layout
  • Properly stores zoom black setting in saved layouts (thanks Marc!)
  • Automatically saves captured stills to disk
  • Fixed bug limiting RGB and 10bit ScopeLink support from Final Cut Pro X
  • Fixed performance issue with autoformat sources in Blackmagic Desktop Video 11.6 and later
  • Fixes crash with RGB parade when using OFX ScopeLink source
  • Improved support for playback of DNxHQX media (thanks David!)

New in ScopeBox 4.0.6 (May 7, 2020)

  • Adds ScopeLink support for Assimilate SCRATCH (thanks Mazze, Guido!)
  • Improves performance of OFX ScopeLink plugin slightly
  • Fixes possible crash saving live source
  • Fixes crash with Blackmagic devices on underpowered macs
  • Blocks system sleep when video source active
  • Fixes bug where grat intensity could be reset to default after waking from sleep (thanks Marc!)
  • Fixes crash drawing waveform with SD frame sizes (thanks Alex!)

New in ScopeBox 4.0.5 (Apr 9, 2020)

  • fixes crash using feature insights in vectorscope
  • opening movie source now populates open recent menu
  • fixes crashes loading corrupt movies
  • adds support for transparent overlay images (thanks Dan!)
  • fixes crashes loading small / non standard sized overlay images
  • fixes visual glitches using scopelink source still stores as scope overlays (thanks richard!)
  • fixes crashes dragging non-images into image gallery
  • adds check for metal support at launch
  • optimizes performance when palettes are covered by other palettes (common when soloing palettes)
  • optimizes performance of sidebar source image computation
  • optimizes performance when more than one of same scope active
  • optimizes memory usage of blackmagic sources
  • adds menuitem to hide toolbar in full screen (thanks Barend, Tobias, and Mark!)
  • fixes bug that caused vec targets to move when in auto colorspace and overlay image used
  • fixes overlay slider to control opacity
  • fixes crashes setting empty values in some sidebar fields (aspect, mask etc)
  • fixes crash in parades/waveform with envelopes enabled
  • vectorscope hue vector grats no longer scale line width during resize (thanks Tobias!)
  • fixes possible rounding errors in rgb transform
  • fixes crash enabling LUT in image adjustments

New in ScopeBox 4.0 (Nov 12, 2019)

  • Clean, modern UI
  • HDR support
  • ScopeLink OFX support in Davinci Resolve
  • New CIE color palette
  • New TimeTrace palettes (good for color constancy work, they show luma and rgb over time)
  • Support for many more video playback formats (mov, mp4, MXF, BRAW, AVCHD, HDV)
  • Feature insights – quickly find where regions in one palette fall in another
  • Still store and image overlays
  • Overlay two palette traces
  • Custom user defined color targets on palettes
  • False color preview overlays
  • Expanded device support

New in ScopeBox 3.5.6 (Dec 13, 2018)

  • Adds Premier Pro CC 2019 ScopeLink source.
  • Fixes bug that could cause ScopeBox to hang when connecting to ScopeLink sources in macOS 10.14.1 Mojave

New in ScopeBox 3.5.3 (Sep 24, 2016)

  • Adds support for Pomfort Live Grade Pro (version 3.6) via ScopeLink. In addition, it adds the ability to display the RGB Parade Palette using a user-defined trace color.

New in ScopeBox 3.5 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Added ScopeLink integration between EditReady and ScopeBox.
  • What is ScopeLink? ScopeLink is a technology we introduced a few years ago allowing ScopeBox to see (and scope) the video signal inside another application. Users of FCPX, Premiere Pro, AfterEffects and other applications can use ScopeLink to attach ScopeBox to their timelines. Today we’ve made it possible to use ScopeBox with EditReady preview playback.
  • This means if you own both EditReady and ScopeBox you can now get live video scopes of your camera originals right from the EditReady preview player. Any camera files EditReady supports: AVCHD, HDV, MXF, MOV and MP4. You don’t need to rewrap or transcode the footage to get access to professional quality QA tools. And if you’re shooting in Log, protune, cine-gamut, or any other format, you can still use EditReady’s LUT support to preview your shots as corrected video – the LUT-transformed video will be sent to ScopeBox as well.

New in ScopeBox 3.4.3 (Jan 17, 2016)

  • Improved support for dropframe timecode in Blackmagic devices
  • Resolves crash when loading multiple QuickTime movies
  • Resolves crash when removing items from the clip list
  • Resolves crash when switching LUTs

New in ScopeBox 3.4.1 (Dec 27, 2014)

  • Resolves minor issues and enhances the appearance of ScopeBox when running on Mac OS X Yosemite:
  • Corrects issue with display of mV scale on waveform
  • QuickTime movies now update scopes even when paused
  • Better handling of Quartz Composer Plugins with 4:3 sources
  • Better default values for ScopeLink during initial install
  • Updated interface for Yosemite
  • Improved stability when running many simultaneous records
  • Miscellaneous fixes

New in ScopeBox 3.3.6 (Mar 1, 2014)

  • ScopeBox 3.3.6 simplifies the use of Blackmagic Design input devices, adds support for Adobe SpeedGrade via ScopeLink, and resolves various issues:
  • Fixes cases in which layout recall fails
  • Adds settings for video and audio inputs and PSF settings for Blackmagic Design devices
  • Improved LUT parsing
  • Adds ScopeLink support for Adobe SpeedGrade

New in ScopeBox 3.3.4 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Adds keyboard shortcuts for layouts
  • Ability to manage layouts
  • Automatic format detect on supported Blackmagic Design devices
  • Support for Blackmagic Design 4K inputs
  • Support for new releases of Adobe After Effects CC in ScopeLink
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

New in ScopeBox 3.3.3 (Nov 1, 2013)

  • Corrects an issue in which certain 3D LUTs would display incorrectly
  • Resolves startup issues when running the trial on Mavericks
  • Fixes potential crash when removing Blackmagic thunderbolt devices during operation

New in ScopeBox 3.3.2 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Ability to use ScopeLink with Final Cut Pro X
  • Enhanced configuration options for ScopeLink
  • Cliplist stores clips across launches
  • Enhancements for using ScopeBox in Mac OS 10.9 "Mavericks"
  • Improved audio meter reliability
  • Support for Speedgrade LUTs
  • Rename YUV parades to YCbCr parades
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

New in ScopeBox 3.3 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Added ScopeLink, which provides cable-less software-based monitoring for editing and compositing applications. With ScopeLink, you can see your NLE timeline directly within ScopeBox for high quality QC and monitoring.
  • Adds support for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro and Prelude monitoring. More supported hosts will be added in coming releases.
  • Changes:
  • Adds ScopeLink for software-based monitoring
  • Stability improvements for very long records
  • Support for 32x32x32 LUTs

New in ScopeBox 3.2.1 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • ScopeBox 3.2.1 provides minor bug fixes and enhancements, and is recommended for all users. Please note, we are beginning to phase out support for the PowerPC G5 platform. We will continue to supply critical bug fixes for PowerPC ScopeBox users, but will no longer be adding new features and enhancements to this platform.
  • Improved saved source recall behavior
  • Fixes for saved sources with LUTs
  • Native HDV audio support

New in ScopeBox 3.2 (Jan 28, 2013)

  • Added new Hue Vector Graticule for vectorscope - more info here http://vanhurkman.com/wordpress/?p=2563
  • Added preference to set default source and default layout, which are loaded automatically on launch
  • Support for 33x33x33 LUTs
  • Enhanced LUT loading support for wider compatibility
  • Automatically reloads LUT when LUT file is modified on disk
  • Improvements to the clip list view
  • Improvements to layout and source saving and recall
  • Video overlay orientation fixes

New in ScopeBox 3.1 (Oct 18, 2012)

  • Changes:
  • Video sources now support 1d and 3d LUTs which affect both preview and scopes (not record)
  • Luma setup add/remove has been removed in favor of LUTs
  • Support for AJA R10K (10bit 4:4:4 RGB)
  • Additional control over interface colors in preferences
  • Per-palette graticule intensity
  • Drag-and-drop hue guide on vectorscope
  • Optimized preset duration records
  • New Palettes:
  • Audio Surround - shows audio levels in a surround mapping of your choice
  • HML Balance - shows 3 vectorscope-like traces of your source, separated into Highs, Mids and Lows based on user defined IRE thresholds

New in ScopeBox 3.0.2 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • Signed for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
  • Retina graphics
  • Substantial performance improvements
  • Log scaling in RGB and Luma histograms
  • Displays alerts in realtime, as they're triggered
  • Adds Avid marker format for alerts
  • Grat text color can be set in preferences
  • Configurable peak hold
  • Miscellaneous fixes to save/recall of layouts
  • Relocates test pattern menu
  • Support for PAL RP188 on BlackMagic cards
  • Cleaner source deck controls

New in ScopeBox 2.1.3 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Better HDV support
  • More Stable
  • Enhanced audio support for movie playback

New in ScopeBox 2.0 (Aug 5, 2008)

  • HDV support
  • HDV is one of the most exciting advancements in High Definition camera technology, allowing shooters to capture HD content on standard 1/4� DV tapes. ScopeBox 2.0 adds the ability to monitor and acquire video from any major HDV camera through an industry standard firewire (1394/ iLink) cable.
  • Multi Source Support
  • 2 | ScopeBox 2.0
  • Another major innovation is ScopeBox�s support for monitoring or recording signals from multiple cameras simultaneously. With one computer, you can easily connect all the cameras on your shoot. Match colors or exposure between cameras, keep an eye on what each camera is capturing, or even record separate feeds from each camera all at once.
  • Enhanced Logging
  • Easily see what footage you�ve shot with the new clip list and thumbnail views. Every shot can be quickly seen and labeled with name, reel number, source device, and timecode information. You can quickly see a thumbnail of the file, or open the file as a new source to review it with the full array of ScopeBox�s tools.
  • Drop Frame Warnings
  • When capturing live to disk, a major concern is whether you actually got the shot or not. ScopeBox 2.0 adds drop frame detection, alerting you to problems as they occur, so you have the chance to recapture any problem shots before you leave the shoot.
  • Preview Overlays
  • You can now view your preview with custom overlays to aid in framing, composition, and shot matching. You can open any still image, QuickTime movie, or even another live source and display it on top of your live preview.
  • Speed
  • The entire video pipeline has been re-tuned with an eye for speed and stability.