![]() I don’t know the exact brand they used, but a ddg search for “chroma key retroreflective ringlight” was enough to return relevant results. I don’t know how much effort went into correcting green falloff from the center of the frame outwards, but the company did also introduce me to the software ScopeBox, so they probably did tune it somewhat. ![]() This was long enough ago that I’m fairly certain they weren’t shooting a format any better than 4:2:2 8bit, and it might have even been 4:2:0 or 4:1:1. White balancing at the center of the frame would be enough to counter most of the spill, and the contrast provided by the reflective material was enough to pull a decent key. When the device was in use, it’s trick was that it DID cast green spill onto the subject, but because it was a ring light aligned with the lens position, the spill contribution to the talent was relatively even and flat, but the retro-reflective material shot a highly chromatic green straight back to the lens. I can see the benefits of tying my Levels and Grids to a Scope Box around the building. The wall looked silver/white when the device wasn’t in use, so it blended into their office better than a chroma green wall would. For other DIT tasks I use a desktop configuration.I interned at a company many years ago which used a retro-reflective background coupled with a green LED ring light, which surrounded the lens. Pairing ScopeBox’s highly customizable and well-designed meters and video scopes with a portable and easy-to-use Epiphan AV.io video grabber ensures your camera calibrations, multi-camera setups, equipment troubleshooting and other live production activities go as smoothly as possible. Note: I only use this configuration for color management and creating look on-set. UltraStudio Mini Recorder and the Mini Monitor via Thunderbolt.įlanders FSI BoxI0 via Ethernet static IP I upgraded the Mac0S and the BMD Desktop_Video. I was having issues with the BMD UltraStudio Mini Recorder being disconnected every three to five minutes and forcing the CPU to become overloaded, the computer super hot and all USB ports to fail. (scopebox green line, area of selected elements blue line.) Basicly my solution only works for non rotated scopeboxes. Once I hook up an UltraStudio Mini Recorder to either my 2013 MBP via Thunderbolt (either directly or through chaining via a Thunderbolt Cinema Display), USB devices get affected:ġ. I have already tested it with an iMac, the problem only happens if the Ultrastudio Mini Recorder is connected to the Thunderbolt Display.Ĭodesurgeon wrote:I have the same issue. The timecode scope gives you a large timecode clock so you can easily keep track of time for logging purposes. ![]() The computer is a Macbook Pro 17" Early 2011 2.3GHz 16GB. There are a variety of ways to feed a timecode signal into ScopeBox - a serial cable, a firewire interface, or on supported devices, via embedded HD-SDI timecode. The problem does not happen when the Ultrastudio is connected directly to the computer. If I disconnect the Mini Recorder from the Thunderbolt Display, the problem stops. If I plug a keyboard in it, the keyboard fails on every key. It take hours to copy a single 10MB file to a memory stick, for example. Everything I plug in it doesn't work well, be it an external hard drive or even a keyboard or a mouse. So the audio is always cutting and being output with some hiss noise.Ģ - All USB (from Thunderbolt Display) ports stop to work correctly. But then I got the following problems:ġ- The Thunderbolt Display outputs any audio in a interrupted way. I am trying to use an Ultra Studio Mini Recorder plugged to an Apple Thunderbolt Display for running Ultra Scope from Divergent Media.
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