Broadcast Monitor · Free, Express, and Professional
The tools you need. Room to grow.
Start with essential picture monitoring, bring measurement into your everyday workflow, or build a more capable production monitoring station. Three editions let you choose the right fit.
A beta purchase with value beyond the beta.
Already a CrewAxis subscriber? Your plan may include a paid edition of Broadcast Monitor at no additional cost. See your subscriber benefit before purchasing.
Version 0.9.x is BETA. Licenses purchased for these beta versions will also work in the 1.x release versions. Your beta license carries forward to 1.x.
Introductory pricing is available through November 30, 2026. On December 1, 2026, Express increases from $39 to $79 USD and Professional increases from $99 to $299 USD. That is a $40 saving on Express or a $200 saving on Professional compared with the announced December prices.
Free
Free$0
For a useful picture monitor and a hands-on introduction to exposure aids.
- RGB picture and individual RGB channels
- False-color picture monitoring
- High zebras
- Clock view
Start learning what the signal can tell you.
Express
Express$39 USD introductory price
$79 USD beginning December 1, 2026.
For operators who want the everyday tools to evaluate exposure, match cameras, and monitor audio.
- Picture channels, focus assistance, and all zebras
- Y and parade waveform and histogram modes
- Vectorscope
- Audio levels, phase, per-channel waveforms, and level history
- Listening and loudness measurements
- Clock view and confidence recording with external FFmpeg
Professional
Professional$99 USD introductory price
$299 USD beginning December 1, 2026.
For production teams that want advanced monitoring, expanded audio analysis, and output and playback capabilities.
- Express tools plus advanced monitoring
- Expanded waveform and histogram modes
- Two-source comparison, chromaticity, and Color Balance Plot
- Hue / Saturation picture and caption monitoring
- Ancillary data inspection and history
- All audio tools, including spectrum analysis
- Hardware, NDI, desktop display, and experimental DJP Transport output
- Cropped multiviewer sources and native reference frames
- Source LUTs, shared analysis regions, and reference guides
- Shot Evaluator and local AI Object Selection with separately installed models
- 3D, HDR, level/gamut, line/pixel, and signal diagnostics
- Video and audio-only file playback
More value from your CrewAxis subscription.
Manage your production with CrewAxis and bring better monitoring to the show. Paid Broadcast Monitor access is included at no additional cost with these CrewAxis subscription plans.
CrewAxis Production Tools, Basic, and Professional
Broadcast Monitor Express included
Express is a free subscriber perk for CrewAxis Production Tools, Basic, and Professional subscribers. Get picture channels, focus assistance, everyday exposure and color scopes, and audio level, phase, waveform, history, listening, and loudness tools.
CrewAxis Enterprise
Broadcast Monitor Professional included
CrewAxis Enterprise subscribers get access to Broadcast Monitor Professional, including the Express tools plus source comparison, advanced color analysis, captions and ancillary data, audio spectrum and waterfall views, video and audio-only file playback, and hardware, NDI, desktop display, and experimental DJP Transport output.
Subscriber access is provided through your qualifying CrewAxis subscription. Link your CrewAxis account to your DJP account, then visit the software page to view your included software benefits.
Compare the tools at a glance.
Express and Professional include adjustable picture detail enhancement for focus checks, audio listening, and loudness readings. Professional adds source comparison, advanced color analysis, caption and ancillary data inspection, and local video or audio-file playback with pause, seek, and looping, plus hardware, NDI, desktop display, and experimental DJP Transport monitoring output. NDI requires the optional NDI Runtime.
Express includes seven scope types: Picture, Waveform, Vectorscope, Histogram, Audio, Clock, and Recorder. Professional includes all 24 scope types in the current Add scope menu, including 3D Picture, 3D Histogram, and 3D Waveform with rolling 15-second histories. Professional offers white-trace Y, Y′, Hue and HSV Saturation modes alongside fixed-color parades.
Use Picture face tools, Comparison face matching and Shot Evaluator to inspect people and shot evidence. Recorder requires external FFmpeg; Object Selection requires a separate model download and restart.
Y represents linear-light luminance; Y′ represents encoded luma. Parades show signal components side by side. Learn how these tools help during a live production.
| Capability | Included in | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Attached controls for compatible Sony cameras | FreeExpressProfessional | Camera values beside supported scopes, with per-setting sync across attached cameras. |
| Picture | FreeExpressProfessional | Free: RGB channels, false color, Luma Target; Express: Component views and focus assistance; Professional: Express plus Hue / Saturation, LUTs and analysis region |
| Zebras | FreeExpressProfessional | Free includes high zebras; Express and Professional add all zebra options. |
| Focus assistance: detail enhancement | ExpressProfessional | Adjust edge enhancement, threshold and optional grayscale to inspect focus. |
| Waveform | ExpressProfessional | Read linear Y, encoded Y′ and fixed-color parades; Professional adds expanded components. |
| Vectorscope | ExpressProfessional | Compare color direction, chroma and tonal ranges in supported projections. |
| Histogram | ExpressProfessional | Read component populations; Professional expands component and HSV displays. |
| Audio level, phase, waveform, and history | ExpressProfessional | Follow individual channels, phase buses, rolling waveforms and retained level history. |
| Audio listening and loudness | ExpressProfessional | Listen to a selected program mix and read its loudness against a chosen target. |
| Comparison: Picture, Waveform, Vectorscope, Color Balance Plot, Quad Balance | Professional | Align two inputs and compare independent preview and measurement views. |
| CIE xy chromaticity and Color Balance Plot | Professional | Inspect gamut coordinates and RGB channel relationships. |
| Caption Data scope and picture caption overlay | Professional | Inspect supported CEA-608/708 text and display a chosen caption service on Picture. |
| Ancillary Data scope and rolling history | Professional | Inspect incoming metadata and browse a rolling minute of snapshots. |
| Audio spectrum and waterfall | Professional | Follow channel frequency content and recent spectral history. |
| Channel vs Channel and Quad Balance | Professional | Explore paired component relationships and four-quadrant channel balance. |
| 3D Scope, 3D Picture, 3D Histogram, 3D Waveform, and HDR Luminance | Professional | Inspect color volumes, rolling 15-second histories and PQ/HLG luminance. |
| Video Level / Gamut and Line / Pixel Inspector | Professional | Locate excursions, inspect native values and follow a selected scanline. |
| Reception Diagnostics and Audio / Video Sync | Professional | Inspect delivery evidence and measure flash-and-beep timing. |
| Shot Evaluator | Professional | Follow descriptive exposure, focus, framing, lighting, motion and audio cards. |
| Cropped video inputs and native reference frames | Professional | Create individual sources from a multiviewer and retain native frames as references. |
| Source LUTs, shared analysis regions, and reference guides | Professional | Apply source transforms and keep supported measurements on the same subject. |
| Local audio transcription | Professional | Generate derived text locally after transcription-model setup. |
| Recorder (external FFmpeg required) | ExpressProfessional | Record decoded video and an independently selected audio source with installed encoders. |
| Local AI Object Selection (separate model setup) | Professional | Select and refine subject masks for supported picture and comparison analysis. |
| Performance Summary | FreeExpressProfessional | Inspect processing workload, timing and rendering paths. |
| Multiple workspace tabs | ExpressProfessional | Save task-specific pane arrangements and switch between them. |
| Audio Surround display | Professional | Read speaker RMS balance and channel correlations. |
| Clock | FreeExpressProfessional | Keep local time, UTC, source timecode or playback position in view. |
| Hardware output | Professional | Send a composed monitoring layout through supported output hardware. |
| Signal compliance indicators | ExpressProfessional | Read evidence about the received signal beside the monitoring tools. |
| Desktop display / experimental DJP Transport output | Professional | Send monitoring views to a chosen display or experimental transport receiver. |
| NDI output | Professional | Share a monitoring output using the optional NDI Runtime. |
| Video and audio-only file playback | Professional | Pause, seek and loop local media for inspection and practice. |
Buy during beta. Keep your license for 1.x.
The 0.9.x series is BETA and is still being refined. Licenses purchased for beta also work with the 1.x release versions. Introductory pricing ends November 30, 2026.
You can explore bundled sample photographs and generated test patterns without capture hardware. For live production, check the hardware guidance.
Use an eligible perpetual license offline.
Save an offline activation request in License & computers, transfer it to an Internet-connected computer, and obtain the signed license through My licenses. Import it back on the monitoring computer. Permanent offline activation serves eligible perpetual licenses. Releasing an offline seat requires uploading the signed release request.
Put the tools to work.
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