TestGen AV Sync turns an iPhone or iPad into a portable video and audio test-signal source, built on the same pattern generation engine Drastic ships in its Broadcast products. Point a camera at it, feed it into a capture card, hold it in frame for on set, or use it to line up a monitor. The signal is generated on the device in real time - no files, no streaming, no network.

TestGen AV Sync provides a free version with most of the important patterns, as well as a Pro version to add specific advanced patterns and features.

Is your company already using Microsoft Teams for remote conferencing? Do you need to share high quality video in real time with your stakeholders? FlowCaster has added a VirtualCam setting that lets it show up as a webcam in meeting sites like Microsoft Teams. Here are details on how to set this up.

We have added direct support for Magewell USB devices in DrasticScope and other Drastic software.

This support provides a low cost solution to get 10 bit signals into DrasticScope, where you can then use Drastic's H/S Scope in 4KScope, HDRScope, and 2110Scope to calibrate cameras and lighting setups. This page provides setup details.

Is your company already using Meet.Google.com for remote conferencing? Do you need to share high quality video in real time with your stakeholders? FlowCaster has added a VirtualCam setting that lets it show up as a webcam in meeting sites like Meet.Google.com. Here are details on how to set this up.

The NMOS Quick Connect utility is an in house application that we have developed to help solve NMOS connectivity issues in the field. It will be included in Drastic version 8 software that is able to access cloud streams and devices. 

Is your company already using GoTo for remote conferencing? Do you need to share high quality video in real time with your stakeholders? FlowCaster has added a VirtualCam setting that lets it show up as a webcam in meeting sites like GoTo. Here are details on how to set this up.

Here is a comprehensive list of ancillary (ANC) metadata types supported in DrasticScope, grouped by purpose and annotated with the relevant standard (e.g., SMPTE, ITU-R, ARIB, etc.)

Drastic Technologies has provided tools and solutions for Adobe editor workflows for decades, and expands on this relationship with the release of the FlowCaster Live Review UXP Panel. The panel is available for free, but it requires a licensed install of FlowCaster software to run. The UXP Panel replaces the CEP Panel for Adobe 2026+.

The Drastic Test Pattern Generator can be used in conjunction with an install of HDRScope to provide a full featured audio video synchronization test. Test Pattern Generator sends a motion audio video sync pattern with its Precision Sync Marker out through your signal chain. HDRScope provides an A/V Sync display that can look at the signal and provide details on audio and video sync, and time in transit. Here is how to set up A/V Sync testing.

Drastic Technologies has provided tools and solutions for Adobe editor workflows for decades, and expands on this relationship with the release of the MediaReactor S3/TAMS/Google/Azure UXP Panel. The panel is available for free, but it requires a licensed install of MediaReactor software to run. 

When FlowCaster is installed in a DaVinci Resolve system, it adds a FlowCaster virtual SDI component that lets you send the output of Resolve via FlowCaster. This means you can output your timeline in any of the IP stream types supported by FlowCaster, including SRT, UDP, RTP, WebRTC, NDI, and ST-2110.

Drastic Technologies has provided tools and solutions for Adobe editor workflows for decades, and expands on this relationship with the release of the FlowCaster Live Review Panel. The panel is available for free, and displays your FlowCaster.live session in a dockable panel within Adobe creative software such as Premiere Pro. This page provides details on how to install and use the FlowCaster Live Review Panel.

DrasticScope and FlowCaster support the AvVr3D ScopeDirect plugin for UnReal Engine, for virtual reality scene camera analysis and calibration. Select the plugin to send high quality audio and video directly to our waveform/vectorscope software for analysis, and to FlowCaster for remote sharing. Here is how to set up the plugin.

videoQC can  analyze a video file, and produce PDF, CSV, XML, and HTML reports, along with marker files for editors, and proxy files for viewing. Here are details on the process.

In Avid, scrubbing through the timeline is video-only by default, in order to provide faster, smoother operation. However, if you are using the FlowCaster OpenIO plugin to share the output of Media Composer, there will be cases where you will want to send the audio as well. Audio scrub can be enabled using a couple of methods, either temporarily, or as a setting that can be left enabled.

Would you like to use Drastic software in a language other than English? We can provide you with an alternate language interface for most Drastic software. This page explains how.

The SMPTE family of 2110/2022 standards for audio/video/data over IP can clock to PTP and carry as many embedded essences as your network can handle. Drastic supports SMPTE protocols as a source for viewing and ingest, and as a target for distribution and delivery. This page provides an overview of our related products, along with information on the standards in general.

Using FlowCaster with the www.flowcaster.live site may require some setup for your corporate firewall. This is especially true if your system is running in a cloud environment like Amazon, Google or Azure. By default these, and many other environments, completely lock down the internet access. To use www.flowcaster.live, some standard ports must be opened up. 

The Drastic ScopeDirect Plugin is designed to be installed in a system with Adobe, Avid, OpenFX, Resolve, or UnReal Engine software. It will look at the video, audio, and ancillary data playing in the editor, and provide a range of waveform/vectorscope tools for setup, measurement, and calibration of levels.

Different IP video protocols require different firewall setups.  This article covers the most common ports / firewall access that different IP video protocols require.  

Test Pattern Generator features an optional range of visual video quality motion patterns.

These patterns provide specific tests to help troubleshoot signal chain issues, and to confirm good known workflows.

This article explains what each tile on each of the motion-pattern frames actually is, how it behaves over time, how to measure it, and what to change when it fails.

Asynchronous review lets anyone open a www.flowcaster.live session and add feedback via text, telestration, and emoji, and save the session to send off to the next stage of production.  It is similar to synchronous review, but only requires one person at a time, and may be done by each participant at any time.

Sample Level accuracy with A/V Sync Precision Sync Marker (PSM)

Measure the audio video synchronization using Drastic's PSM, a far more accurate method for locating the audio tone in a signal. Read for details.

The synchronous collaborative review workflow lets an operator select a proxy file/timeline from any network storage that is available to all participants and share it with a group of participants so their input and feedback can be saved for later review and implementation.

In addition to an unparalleled range of vectorscope/waveform tools, 4KScope, HDRScope, and 2110Scope also feature advanced multichannel audio meters, loudness meters, and surround sound audio monitoring and analysis. This article provides details.

FlowCaster Live Event Review uses Net-X-Code Server to ingest SDI or IP signals simultaneously as high quality MXF files and as time code matched proxy MP4s. This way the creative team can get started working right away with the proxy MP4s from anywhere in the world, and use the decisions to create deliverable assets as the stream is being captured.

If you want to run APIs or WebRTC connections externally, you can configure Apache to act as a reverse proxy using HTTPS on an external port (like 5000). and forward that traffic to an internal HTTP service running on a different port (like 15000). Here’s how to do it step by step:

Use FlowCaster on the www.flowcaster.live site for real time group review of edit sessions anywhere in the world, without rendering or uploading your media to a server!  FlowCaster.live receives audio/video/captions/time code from the editor's output in real time, while providing a shared area of talk, webcam, commenting, and collaborative drawing (telestration), all time code locked to your edit. 

Net-X -Code, videoQC, and Net-X-Copy provide a number of overlays you can superimpose on the video output. These can be enabled or disabled using various MediaCmd commands, which are detailed in this article.

A comparison of www.flowcaster.live's real time video collaboration tool with other tools in the industry.  FlowCaster.live is the only live edit review workflow that allows for instantaneous feedback of edits, high quality over the shoulder monitoring, deep integration into Adobe and Avid editors, along with a secure set of web based and local tools to allow time code locked, instantaneous review of all your video assets and sequences.

There is a command line installer for Windows installs which can be used by system administrators, or by other programs calling the Setup program. Here are the details.

Drastic's 2110Scope, HDRScope, and 4KScope products provide a ScopeDirect Transmitter for Adobe that allows users to monitor the main output directly from the Adobe creative software such as Premiere Pro without SDI/HDMI or IP Video being used to connect them.  You can take advantage of this feature to analyze the signal through the wide range of signal analysis tools. This article describes how to set up the ScopeDirect Transmitter output though our scopes.

Drastic Technologies maintains an account for each of the users who have downloaded a free FlowCaster app from the Google store. This account retains very little actual contact information.

If you prefer to maintain a low profile online though, this account can be very easily deleted once you are done using it. Here is how.

Drastic's 2110Scope, HDRScope, and 4KScope products provide a ScopeDirect OpenIO plugin for Avid that allows users to monitor the main output directly from Avid Media Composer software without SDI/HDMI or IP Video being used to connect them. You can take advantage of this feature to analyze the signal through the wide range of signal analysis tools. This article describes how to set up the ScopeDirect OpenIO plugin output though our scopes.

Drastic supports Windows, macOS, and Linux in its product lines, depending on the product level and/or version. Here are details on which products support which operating systems.

False Color display mode

Version 7 and greater of videoQC, and DrasticScope at the 4KScope, HDRScope, and 2110Scope levels all include a false color display mode. False color mode looks at the IRE values in the signal, and assigns a color to each range. Here are details.

FlowCaster can send the following IP stream types: SRT, RTP, UDP, RTMP, NDI, CDI, WebRTC, WHIP, RIST, OMT, HLS Live, BLS, and ST-2110. FlowCaster's VirtualCam output can also emulate a webcam so it can appear as a guest in meeting sites like Zoom and Teams. There are many ways to monitor and distribute these streams. This article describes some of the available monitoring solutions and their features.

This article lists the locations where Drastic software components may be installed, in case the software needs to be removed manually.

Drastic Technologies' exclusive H/S Scope allows easy calibration of lighting or cameras to a standard DSC ChromaDuMonde chart. The H/S Scope lets you use chroma values to evaluate a light source's ability to render colors accurately based on the camera's electronic response to the color of the light source.

Version 6 and greater of Net-X-Code and MediaReactor both support native editing while ingesting for MXF files in Final Cut Pro X.  

Flowcaster.live integration with Google Chrome - start, schedule, and invite participants to a new FlowCaster session from within your Google Calendar or Gmail! A lightweight download from the Chrome Store provides quick access to FlowCaster sessions integrated directly into the apps you use every day. Here are details:

Version 6 and greater of Net-X-Code and MediaReactor both support native editing while ingesting for MXF files in Adobe Premiere.  

Drastic Technologies has created two OpenFX plugins to view the output of Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve editors; the FlowCaster Remote Monitoring plugin, and the ScopeDirect Signal Analysis Tools plugin. FlowCaster provides a comprehensive set of collaboration, review and approval tools for editors, and can create and export session markers to/from Resolve. Drastic's 4KScope, HDRScope, and 2110Scope software provides professional vectorscope/waveform/histogram scopes for audio and video signals.

Most Drastic software is available on Linux x86_64 as well as Windows (32/64) and macOS (32/64).   This article outlines the minimum packages required to run Drastic software. Note: some of the external resources this article had referenced are no longer available, and their links have been removed. For the latest setup information, please contact Drastic.

Is your company already using Zoom for remote conferencing? Do you need to share high quality video in real time with your stakeholders? FlowCaster has added a VirtualCam setting that lets it show up as a webcam in meeting sites like Zoom. Here are details on how to set this up.

Our partner TestVid, Inc. offers a full range of video clip sets designed for testing content creation devices and workflows.

Is your company already using Webex for remote conferencing? Do you need to share high quality video in real time with your stakeholders? FlowCaster has added a VirtualCam setting that lets it show up as a webcam in meeting sites like Webex. Here are details on how to set this up.

One of the file format plugins (dtx_aWMFDirect.d1x) for Windows 32 and 64 relies on Microsoft Windows' media components.  With some versions of Windows, Microsoft does not include these components by default.  To fix this error, you can either delete the dtx_aWMFDirect.d1x and dt_WinMedia.d1x from the installation folder, which will disable WMV/ASF read/write, or install the missing components from Microsoft.