Broadcast accurate wave form monitoring for your studio
Now it's easy to get accurate and professional waveform monitoring wherever you need it! UltraScope features 6 different scopes for measuring all aspects of a broadcast video signal. You get waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, YUV component parade, histogram, audio phase and audio level meters, plus picture view! Available as a PCIe card for workstations, as a portable USB 3.0 solution or as part of a dual rack mount display. Get the technical accuracy engineers demand combined with a fast to use interface that creative professionals will love!

Eliminate Technical Errors
Professional waveform monitoring is the only way to ensure your production work meets all international standards. As well as technical monitoring and quality control, waveform monitoring is paramount during editing, mastering and color correction. During color correction it's vital to see the balance of black, mid range and white in an image and UltraScope is the perfect solution because you get 6 big beautiful scopes on a single computer display. Now you can also install SmartScope Duo and get waveform monitoring in racks next to your other equipment.

The UltraScope Family Choose your Scope!
You can display UltraScope on a computer’s monitor or laptop display, using either a PCIe or USB 3.0 computer interface to connect your video source. Blackmagic UltraScope’s PCIe card can be installed into Mac or PC workstations and Pocket UltraScope is powered by its USB 3.0 connection for ultimate
portability when using a laptop. SmartScope Duo features two independent 8" displays and looks like a dual rack monitor. You can assign any scope view to either display or choose to view a picture feed with a scope next to it!

6 Broadcast Accurate Scopes
You get a range of the most popular waveform displays, so you can accurately check the quality of your video signals. The waveform display shows you the luminance in your video, the vectorscope shows you a color plot of the various colors in your video, the RGB parade shows color balance and illegal video levels, the histogram shows the distribution of pixel brightness and the audio scope and level meters let you check audio phase and levels.

Innovative Software for both Mac and Windows
When using UltraScope on Mac or PC you get a beautiful large screen with controls and buttons that allow you to change scope parameters, as well as to perform functions such as error checking and logging. UltraScope runs natively in full screen mode and is ideal when you need large screen scopes in edit suites, control rooms and even on the road when used with a laptop. When using SmartScope Duo, controls and scope settings are changed centrally from a single computer using the SmartView Utility!

Monitoring Solutions
When you need rack based waveform monitoring or waveform monitoring integrated with picture monitoring, then SmartScope Duo is the perfect solution. SmartScope Duo looks like a dual 8" rack monitor, but includes powerful processing for generating broadcast accurate waveform displays. Now you
can get rack mount monitoring and instantly flip over from a picture display to a range of waveform displays whenever you need. Each SmartScope Duo LCD screen can be set independently so you can have any combination of video monitor or waveform monitor you like!

3G-SDI on every UltraScope
With different connections it’s easy to choose the model that best suits your needs. The PCIe Blackmagic UltraScope includes 3G-SDI and 3G Optical Fiber inputs. UltraScope selects between optical and regular SDI inputs and both inputs loop through for connection to other equipment. The USB 3.0 Pocket UltraScope includes a 3G-SDI input and is a perfect solution for laptops. SmartScope Duo features an independent 3G-SDI input for each display. All models automatically switch between SD, HD and 3G-SDI video formats as the input changes.

SCOPES

Broadcast Accurate Waveform Monitoring
The world's first waveform monitoring designed for editors and colorists, with the technical accuracy broadcast engineers will love! All models feature the most popular and useful scopes for all your creative and broadcast engineering use. If you're building technical monitoring then the waveform, YUV parade and vectorscope are ideal. If you're a colorist working on the look of your images then RGB parade, vectorscope and histogram let you see the balance of colors as you work. When you're shooting on set, then histogram and audio scopes let you keep track of your lens settings and audio! There really is a scope for everyone!

Waveform Display for Alignments
Waveform display is perfect for adjusting video levels or matching black background levels when keying! Waveform view features a luminance display of the black and white levels in your video signal. The UltraScope models feature a composite setting to show both luminance and chroma. Composite video is synthesized from the SDI input displayed for a better view for aligning decks and other video equipment. Even though UltraScope is fully digital, the synthesized composite waveform makes it easier for editors who are familiar with composite waveform monitors.

Vectorscope View
A vectorscope is the only way to measure colors in video accurately! If you're color correcting video, vectorscope shows when color has been removed or nulled out for accurate white balance. When you need to apply a tint, vectorscope lets you see exactly how much tint you’re adding and what color it is. Sometimes monitors can't be trusted, but with vectorscope you’ll always know the exact colors you’re working with! You can also easily align hue on decks using a vectorscope!

Parade Display for Colorists
The real-time RGB parade waveform view is the ideal scope for accurate color correction. You can see the color balance in ‘blacks’, ‘mids’ and ‘whites’, making it easy to balance colors for perfect looking images. RGB Parade lets you check for illegal colors because any video that drops below the black line, or above the 100% line, is an illegal RGB color! Vectorscope view cannot show illegal video levels, because vectorscope only plots colors and not the luminance component of video. However the RGB parade plots your video as R, G and B and so is the perfect way to keep track of illegal video levels! You can also select YUV parade display to show YUV component video as its transmitted down the SDI cable and is perfect for broadcast engineering analysis of SDI signals.

Audio View For Monitoring Levels
Monitor your audio levels with 8 channels of audio metering on UltraScope models or 16 channels on the SmartScope duo model! Audio scope also includes a stereo phase meter that can be selected to different SDI audio pairs. The stereo phase meter plots left and right audio as an XY scope display so you know exactly what your audio is at all times. It’s easy to see audio problems such as clipping, and out of phase audio can be seen as a left or right leaning display. If you don’t get a vertical oriented waveform then you know your audio channel balance is out!

Histogram For Location Shoots
Clipping levels on a live shoot results in loss of detail, which can cause huge problems when you try to adjust ‘blacks’ or ‘whites’ in post production. Histogram view lets you see where the pixels are in your video, and how they are distributed from black to white. You can see if your video is clipping and adjust the camera iris and ISO settings to keep all black and white detail in the image. This means you have the full contrast range of video for easy color correction during post production. Histogram will transform your shoots because you can see exactly what you're recording and the colorist who works on your job will benefit from the availability of the full contrast range of the camera!

Picture View For Timecode
Of course the most important view of all is pictures! You can select picture view for general monitoring of video. The UltraScope models embed a picture view into the 6 way software interface so that you can see the video being measured next to the live scope displays. The SmartScope Duo model lets you select full frame video on any screen at any time! UltraScope will auto detect between SD, HD and 3G-SDI standards and then video format is displayed above the picture. If the SDI input contains either VITC timecode in SD, or RP 188 timecode in HD, then this is decoded and displayed.

Software Upgrade
UltraScope and SmartScope models allow for software updates to add new features in the future. You can simply download new software and add new types of scopes as they become available. Programmable internal software means you can get new features, compatibility with new hardware and support for new formats in the future. When downloading updates UltraScope and SmartScope software automatically detects the internal software of your hardware and will prompt you to update if necessary so the update is completely automatic and simple to perform!