Extended toolset of VIDEO Scopes

Live video scopes that automatically adapt to the chosen color space, with out-of-gamut alerts and mastering display indications for precise, real-time monitoring.

Heatmaps

The Heatmaps provide intuitive visual feedback directly on the image, helping operators quickly assess exposure, luminance distribution, and color gamut compliance. These overlays allow for immediate identification of issues that may not be visible to the naked eye, ensuring precise image control during grading, QC, and delivery.

• Signal Range highlights pixels that fall outside defined boundaries, displaying under-range values in blue and over-range values in red.
• Luminance Heatmaps translate brightness or channel values into predefined color scales, with modes such as Y Luminance, MaxRGB, and individual RGB channels.
• Out-of-Gamut Heatmap reveals pixels exceeding the safe color gamut, with intensity indicating the degree of overshoot.

AUDIO & NGA Scopes

Our Audio Scopes provide real-time, detailed monitoring for both traditional and Next Generation Audio (NGA) content.

Traditional audio scopes are linked to the audio routing, allowing operators to monitor individual channels or entire soundfields independently. Measurements exceeding selected targets are clearly indicated in red for immediate feedback.

NGA scopes, on the other hand, are timeline- and metadata-driven, measuring the output of the active audio track regardless of routing configuration. They support rendering engines such as Dolby Atmos, MPEG-H, and our internal MT Renderer, providing accurate insight into immersive and personalized audio content.

Loudness Meter

The Loudness Meter provides real-time measurement of perceived audio loudness, taking into account intensity, frequency, and duration.

It displays results in LU or LUFS, reflecting how humans perceive volume. Operators can choose between Graph or Radar views for flexible monitoring.

• Display modes – Loudness Graph or Loudness Radar
• Gauges – Momentary, Short Term, Integrated, and Range
• Target display – show loudness targets for reference
• Standards support – EBU R128, AGCOM 219/09/CSP, ATSC A/85, ARIB TR-B32, FreeTV OP-59

Headphone monitoring

All our solutions feature a dedicated headphone output for precise monitoring. The output can be configured as Binaural or 2.0 stereo, depending on your workflow.

• NGA monitoring: when the active NGA track is selected, the headphone output reflects the rendering of the active engine (Dolby Atmos, MPEG-H, or MT Renderer).
• Audio Routing monitoring: when an audio routing bus is selected, the headphone output is produced by the MT Renderer, with binaural support for all surround configurations

This ensures accurate and flexible monitoring for both traditional and immersive audio workflows.

Audio and Video offline analysis

ICE Studio and MIST provide powerful tools for offline analysis of video and audio bitstreams, with track management, helping operators ensure the highest quality before delivery.

Freeze Frame & Black Frame Detection – identify unintended still frames or black frames in the video.

• Dead Pixel Detection – locate and report dead pixels across sequences.
• Luminance Analysis – evaluate brightness levels across the image for consistency and compliance with HDR standards (MaxFALL, MaxCLL).
• Loudness Measurement – measure audio levels according to international standards: EBU R128, AGCOM 219/09/CSP, ATSC A/85, ARIB TR-B32, FreeTV OP-59.
• Audio Drop Detection – detect gaps or missing segments in audio streams.
• Comparative Analysis – quantify differences between sources using ΔICTCP (color difference) or PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio).

Enrich & Qualify QC Reports

Reports from automated, file-based QC solutions can be imported, with errors displayed both in the QC tool page and directly on the timeline, allowing operators to navigate from issue to issue and review them in context.

Results from offline analyses performed by MIST and ICE Studio are listed in the same way, ensuring a unified view of all detected anomalies.

Each anomalie can then be qualified as “Creative Intent,” “Verified Error,” or “False Positive,” with optional custom comments. Finally, a consolidated report can be exported in both EBU-QC XML and PDF formats.

Work with QC Profiles

Checklists of Eyeball QC verifications, each linked to an EBU-QC code, can be saved into reusable Profiles.

Importing a profile into a new project automatically lists all required human-only tests in the QC tool.

Results can be instantly marked as PASS or FAIL, with optional comments before exporting the finalized report, enabling faster, standardized, and fully documented QC.

MIST and ICE Studio support multiple levels of real-time annotations, giving operators flexibility in how issues and notes are tracked during QC.

• QC Markers – displayed directly on the timeline, these markers reflect errors reported by third-party QC tools or offline analyses and are linked to the QC Tool page. They are designed for export or for archiving alongside the media.

• Locators – managed on a dedicated track and page, locators are intended for internal use.

Comparative Analysis

Perform precise, quantitative comparisons between two media sources using advanced metrics such as PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) and Color Difference analysis (ΔICTCP).

Results are presented in clear graphical form for immediate interpretation in the context of the timeline and can be seamlessly exported as detailed reports in CSV or XML formats for further documentation and sharing.

The Event Viewer

The Event Viewer provides a powerful alternative to traditional timeline inspection, displaying content as a succession of events rather than a chronology.

This approach enables operators to instantly focus only on segments of interest, making it faster and easier to identify, assess, and act on issues without navigating through unaffected content.