Quality Check

HD-SDI Output in Silverstack

This article is outdated Silverstack XT and Lab already also support 4k SDI output with: Blackmagic 4k cards and AJA Kona 5 cards (requires 8k firmware installed)   Silverstack XT and Silverstack Lab come with HD-SDI output to play out ingested clips in best quality for QC on an HD-SDI broadcast monitor.

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Basic Color Control in Silverstack

Each clip has a “Look Source” that defines its color processing (see General Info tab, right bar).

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Quick Look Features

In Silverstack you are able to preview all of your Assets that are natively supported by the Quick Look feature of MacOSX and offloaded/registered to your library.

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Playback

The Silverstack playback view allows to play movie clips back.

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Professional Video Scopes for Silverstack with ScopeBox

You can use ScopeBox by Divergent Media for software-based waveform and video scopes for Silverstack’s player.

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Frame Lines in the Playback View

It is usual to record footage with an aspect ratio different to the one used in the final product, which makes the quality checking of the clips a bit more challenging.

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Volume playback priority

High data rate video playback is very hardware demanding.

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Visual Control Functionalities in the Playback Mode

  With the functionalities provided within the “Visual Controls” panel you can check the colors and quality of your video clip: Channels: By selecting one of the three RGB-channels Silverstack shows the distribution of this color in the image of the video clip.

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Still Image Export

In order to export a still from a clip, simply move the playhead to the desired frame within the clip and select “Clip > Create Still Image” from the main menu as shown in here: Batch Export of Still Images for Multiple Clips Additionally, Silverstack can export multiple still images at once.

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ARRI ALEXA and AMIRA Looks in Silverstack

Silverstack can playback and transcode ProRes clips recorded with ARRI ALEXA and AMIRA cameras with the looks applied on set.

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Image transformation

The ability to de-squeeze footage recorded with anamorphic lenses and image flipping is available in Silverstack.

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3rd Party Quick Look Support

Here you can find a list of useful plugins that might help you to get more of the Quicklook ability.

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Using Silverstack’s Full Screen Mode

Silverstack provides a full screen mode.

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