Route sources to independent views

Give each view its own source and purpose. Inspect one input with several different tools, or arrange views around the signals you need to watch. Keep the information for your role in front of you.

Save the setup for the next show

Save window layouts, input routes, scope types, and scope settings as a workspace. Express and Professional also support multiple workspace tabs. Build a configuration for rehearsal, another for the show, and a startup workspace for the monitoring arrangement you use most.

Learn before the cameras arrive

Choose Generated from any input list for numeric test patterns and bundled scenes: concerts, sports, news studios, conferences, everyday subjects, camera matching, lighting faults, and scope practice. Use the stacked-screens icon to apply a source to compatible panes.

Alt+arrow moves through the shared generator. Input labels and Open sources thumbnails follow the active scene; catalog thumbnails retain their preset names. The scenes are fixed generated photographs, with alignment tones rather than event sound.

Studio-pair variants demonstrate exposure and color casts; digital chip charts provide known encoded signal values; a synthetic soft-knee variant illustrates highlight compression. Camera controls do not alter these stills. Explore the practice examples below.

Make focus easier to judge

Express and Professional add adjustable detail enhancement to the RGB picture view, including grayscale. Boost fine edges to make focus easier to assess, and raise the threshold to reduce the enhancement of low-level noise.

The adjustment affects the displayed picture, leaving source samples and measurement scopes unchanged. A composed output that includes this picture pane also includes its enhancement.

Give one view your attention

Zoom the picture up to 16×, pan to inspect a detail, and double-click to return to fit. Arrange and Tile organize panes around their content, with layouts that adapt as the workspace changes size.

Magnetic snapping aligns moving or resizing scopes to workspace and neighboring scope edges, preserving the same margins and gaps as Arrange. Hold Control to move freely, or disable Snap to edges per scope. Detached windows also snap to monitor work-area and neighboring window edges. The right-click > Replace scope submenu lets you choose a scope available in your licensed edition while preserving its layout and compatible sources.

Double-click unused scope background to hide or restore only that pane's controls, or right-click the picture or graph and toggle Show scope controls beside Hide/Show status pane. Its check mark shows whether controls are visible, and it remains available when the data view fills the pane. Double-click the main application background or title for global Minimal UI. Individual hidden-control preferences save with the workspace.

Maximize a pane for a closer look, then return to your layout. When program output is stopped, hidden scope displays suspend their analysis and rendering while source connections and file playback stay in place. Enabled audio listening continues.

Restore the layout to resume current measurements. Panes required by running outputs keep rendering, including panes on other workspace tabs.

Review a clip with the same tools

Professional supports local video and audio-only files, with independent playback controls for each source. Play, pause, stop, seek to a moment, or let the clip loop while several scopes examine the same source. Seeking a video while paused displays a preview frame. Focus a file-fed graph and use Ctrl+P for play/pause or Alt+Left/Right to skip five seconds; panes sharing that source follow its transport. Review music, voiceovers, and show cues in the audio tools without needing a video track.

In source configuration, Auto, Hardware, and Software decoder choices apply to the shared file source and save with the workspace. Auto adapts to the workload; explicit choices bypass adaptation. Requested and effective decoder status show which path is being used. Changing decoder retains position, pause, and loop state.

Playback decodes ahead into a bounded buffer to help absorb variations in decoding time. This supports steadier delivery while you inspect the footage; achievable playback still depends on the file and your computer.

Exposure and color casts

The neutral studio pair and its synthetic variants share the same framing. Compare -2-stop exposure, +2-stop hard clipping, and warm, cool, green, or magenta casts in Picture, Waveform, RGB Parade, and Vectorscope. The +2-stop soft-knee variant compresses highlights smoothly; compare the retained variation against the clipped version.

These are illustrative linear RGB transformations, not camera profiles or Kelvin settings. Missing detail in the original SDR photograph cannot be recovered.

Digital chip-chart references

Tabletop and portrait-pair samples share identical procedural 32-chip panels: broadcast colors, custom muted colors, grayscale, and near-black/white steps. Inspect patch interiors for known native 10-bit values. Percentages describe encoded Rec.709 signal, not reflectance: 18% signal is Y=222, not an 18% reflectance card.

The panels are digital composites, not photographed commercial charts. Photo backgrounds remain generated 8-bit SDR; 4:2:2 chroma averaging affects patch edges.

Subjects for different questions

Use the close-up skin pair for relative face inspection, the green-screen presenter for unevenness and spill, fine textures for 1:1 inspection, and the foggy exterior for closely spaced midtones. Studio and reporting includes both the original single-anchor scene and the newer male/female co-anchor newsroom.

SDR scenes are delivered as legal-range 10-bit Rec.709. HDR photographs are synthetic PQ/HLG encodings of SDR originals, not native HDR captures. Use numeric test patterns for calibrated reference levels.