Professional video scopes for Silverstack with ScopeBox

You can use ScopeBox to add software-based waveform monitors and video scopes to Silverstack’s player. It provides a range of tools for image analysis, allowing you to closely evaluate and adjust the clips in your Silverstack library.

You can receive information about how to download, setup and license ScopeBox on the ScopeBox Website.

Connecting Silverstack and ScopeBox via ScopeLink#

Silverstack sends the current image of the player directly to the ScopeBox application via ScopeLink. To enable ScopeLink open the ScopeBox application and follow the instructions.

In the menu bar of ScopeBox choose: “Source > Add ScopeLink Source > Pomfort Silverstack”

After that, the Pomfort Silverstack source appears in the sidebar. The screen will remain black until you play a clip in the Silverstack viewer.

Figure 1: ScopeBox waiting for the Silverstack connection.

Open Silverstack and start playing a clip in the media player.

Make sure that in the settings of Silverstack under “External Video” the checkbox “Connect to ScopeBox” is enabled. You reach the settings from the main menu by choosing: “Silverstack > Settings…”

Figure 2: Silverstack “External Video” settings.

There you can also choose if you want to update the frames in ScopeBox during playback in Silverstack. Checking this box may increase performance, but Silverstack only updates ScopeBox when being paused.

When you switch to ScopeBox, you should then see the default view including an image preview of the clip in Silverstack:

Figure 3: The ScopeBox UI with a preview of the Silverstack clip and scopes.

Note: Due to Silverstack’s internal RGB processing, YCbCr-based clips sent to ScopeBox via ScopeLink do not retain code values outside the legal range, even if such values exist in the original source files.

Learn more about ScopeBox.

Tags: waveform, vectorscope, histogram, rgb parade