ScopeBox 2.0 Released by Divergent Media

The immediate availability of ScopeBox 2.0, the highly anticipated upgrade to the company's Mac-based video monitoring, capture, and analysis software, which replaces thousands of dollars of traditional hardware waveforms, vectorscopes, preview monitors and direct-to-disk recording tools, for acquisition and post production, was today announced by Divergent Media.

Mike Woodworth, Divergent Media CEO, said: "Since launching ScopeBox over a year ago, we've made great strides in changing expectations of what a high-end video analysis system should cost, and our users have embraced the application in ways we never expected. Scopebox 2.0 was rewritten from the ground up to address our users' most vocal requests - adding HDV and multicam support, and offering even faster performance".

ScopeBox 2.0 adds support for all the major formats of HDV over FireWire. ScopeBox, with the addition of HDV, now seamlessly monitors and records all the major acquisition, editing, and mastering formats on the market. Allowing users to immediately use footage in any major edit system, ScopeBox can record HDV signals directly to QuickTime movies or as m2t streams.

With ScopeBox users can monitor and record more than one camera at a time, to keep an eye on all the feeds of a multi-camera shoot. Match exposure, white balance and more between all cameras, and then easily record these feeds to disk - all at the same time.

By using Telestream's Pipeline network-based video capture device as a remote video source for ScopeBox, systems integrators can replace the video signal chain with an Ethernet network and a single computer. Greatly reducing cost, rack footprint, power requirements and thermal output, all signal routing, video processing, monitoring and multiplexing of the various tools are handled by ScopeBox.