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Serious Magic DV Rack Field Guide
The DV Rack Components
• The Field Monitor
• The Waveform Monitor
• The Vectorscope
• The DVR - Digital Video Recorder
• The Audio Spectrum Analyzer
• The Spectra 60
• The DV Grabber
• The DV Quality Monitor and Clip Alerts
• The Shot Clock
This section of the Field Guide describes each of DV Rack’s components and how
they can help you improve the quality of your video. You’ll also find some basic
instructions that walk you through each component’s most common uses. You
can find more instructions in the Additional Ways to Improve Your Video, in the
User Guide PDF file and in the DV Rack Help system. In DV Rack, press F1 to
access Help.
The Field Monitor
Everyone who shoots video more than occasionally has come away from a shoot
thinking that their video was going to require minimal post production work only
to find when they start editing that the colors are flat, faces are washed out, and
some shots had crept out of frame. Using the DV Rack Field Monitor, you now can
quickly identify quality and consistency problems right at the shoot location.
The DV Rack digital Field Monitor is a native DV display meaning that, unlike
your camera's viewfinder or LCD screen, it shows what the video looks like after
it is compressed, exactly as it will be recorded to tape. This is crucial because your
camera's DV compression introduces spatial artifacts and also modifies the video
in subtle but significant ways including brightness, saturation, hue and resolu-
tion. The Field Monitor also lets you freeze and zoom frames and be alerted about
adverse lighting conditions before and during your shoot while you still have the
Click the buttons to turn features on. These buttons latch down in
the On position and the amber light on the button indicates that it is
on. Click a button again to turn it off.