General Information
A suite of Windows programs that run on a standard PC without special hardware.
VidScope-Plus is intended for individual desktop use. It alows for monitoring and quality control tests on any audio/video media content.
VidScope-Plus can work with all professional video formats including uncompressed component types, all standard and high definition dimensions. Subject to a suitable Codec being available any files type can also be handled... including sub-broadcast (small) formats and 2K
Embedded audio, stereo or multi-channel surround-sound can be extracted and checked alongside the video for audible or visual impairments on a frame by frame basis. Plus of course also has all the facilities of Hamlet’s Vidscope waveform and vectorscope software monitoring software.
Each test can be enabled or disabled by the user from a simple menu. The test parameter ‘sets’ can saved or recalled from profiles. Thus a specific profile can be standardised or passed from manager to operator etc. With media-files, the test operation can either be run at normal play-speed or faster than real-time.
For live sources, Plus will work with most PC compatible capture cards or devices as well as DV or HDV over firewire. QC of taped media can be tested in this configuration. For each test parameter, an alarm or software GPI can be set-up. If those set events are detected, an on-screen message alerts the operator or some external process or operation can be triggered.
As well as displaying any combination of Video and waveforms of the operator’s PC monitor or dual monitors, the software can be configured to playout Video to a SDI, HD-SDI or HDMI interface card for connection to TV monitor or other equipment.
