Features & Benefits
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WFM5000 – HD/SD – SDI Portable
Waveform Monitor
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WFM4000 – SD-SDI Portable Waveform
Monitor
- Convenient, 3 RU, Half-rack, Short-depth
Instrument, Ideal for Space-constrained Environments
- AC and
DC Power Options
- Patented Gamut Displays Facilitate Compliance
Verification
- TandemVu™ Display for Efficient Camera Adjustments
- Error Log for 10,000 Events Simplifies Error Correction Tasks
- Fully Digital Processing for Accurate, Repeatable, Drift-free
Operation
- Ethernet Port Allows for Easy Download of Screenshots
and Error Log
- Freeze Mode for Trace and Picture Displays
- Equipped Standard with Monitoring Capacity for 16 Channels of
Embedded Audio (up to 8 Simultaneously) and 1 AES Audio Input
- Front-panel Headphone Port for Easy Monitoring of Audio Channels
- Audio Bars and Lissajous Displays for Verification of Audio
on the Same Instrument
- 32 User-configurable Presets for Quick
Recall of Commonly Used Configurations.
- User-definable Safe
Area Graticules Facilitate Editing Tasks
- High-brightness
Display Allows for Indoor and Outdoor Usage
- Picture Thumbnail
with Line-select Marker
- Intuitive User Interface, Backlit
Buttons, and Online Help
- Front-panel USB Port for Easy Transfer
of Instrument Presets and Screenshots
Applications
- Confidence Monitoring Of
SDI Video and Uncompressed Digital Audio
- Compliance Checking
in Distribution and Broadcast
- Content QA in Production and
Postproduction
- Portable Monitoring on Camera and Field Production
The
WFM5000 and WFM4000 Portable Video Waveform Monitors provide an ideal
solution for basic video and audio monitoring needs with an integrated
LCD high-brightness display in a convenient 3RU, half-rack, short-depth
form factor, suitable for space-constrained environments.
These
versatile instruments provide options to accept power from a 12 VDC
source, a battery, or a 100-240 VAC converter.
Both models
come standard with support for 16 channels of Embedded Audio and 1 input
for 2 channels of Digital AES audio.
WFM5000
Supports
HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M) and SD-SDI (ITU-R BT.601) monitoring applications.
It provides HD/SD format auto-detect.
WFM4000
Supports
SD-SDI (ITU-R BT.601) monitoring only.
These instruments provide
the reliability of the Tektronix waveform monitors family in a portable,
basic monitoring product.
Tektronix Excellence
WFM5000
and WFM4000 offer uncompromised monitoring quality with sharp CRT-like
traces, patented Gamut displays, picture thumbnail, display freeze,
and an error log for 10,000 events for efficient content compliance
verification.
Digital Audio and Video Monitoring in One Instrument
These instruments provide standard digital audio monitoring with
Audio Bars, Lissajous Displays, and front-panel headphone port for
easy compliance verification of digital audio without the need for
an additional piece of equipment
Ease of Use
The
Intuitive User Interface provides backlit buttons, and online help.
32 user-configurable presets allow users to recall commonly used
configurations tailored to your personal work practices. These presets
can be transferred to and from other units (same model) using the
front-panel USB port.
The Passive loopthrough inputs allow
for transparent monitoring at any point of the signal path even if
instrument power is off.
An Ethernet port allows for easy download
of Screenshots and the Error log.
See and Solve with Tektronix
Displays
The See and Solve displays in Tektronix video
monitors simplify video monitoring tasks such as calibration, error
detection, and content correction allowing to detect errors at a glance
and troubleshoot them efficiently.
Tektronix displays offer
the sharpest CRT-like trace quality for clear waveform monitoring
with the look and feel of an analog display. With several sweep rates
and easy control of vertical gain and horizontal magnification, you
can efficiently monitor and measure video waveform parameters.
Specialized displays provide summarized, yet comprehensive reports
of alarms, session, and status of content. Powerful displays such
as Video Status show in a condensed way error statistics, signal format,
presence of ancillary data, and more. These Tektronix exclusive displays
simplify monitoring tasks by providing important content information
at a glance.
The vector display offers user-selectable graticules,
color target, and color axis.
Patented Tektronix Gamut Displays
– Efficiently Detect and Correct Gamut Problems
The patented Tektronix Diamond and Split Diamond displays
enable Colorists, Editors, and Operators to visualize whether the
content is RGB Gamut-compliant with a single glance. Plus, they are
designed to help isolate the Out-of-Gamut component just as easily.
For SDI component content that is destined for broadcast in composite
systems, the unique Tektronix Arrowhead display can be used to monitor
Composite Gamut compliance without the need for a separate encoder.
Within this display, a separate upper and lower luma-only Gamut limit
can be applied. This display is very useful for camera balancing.
Each of these displays offers user-selectable Gamut thresholds
so Operators can set monitoring limits appropriate to their specific
operation. In addition, Gamut monitoring is fully integrated with
the powerful alarm logging and reporting capability of the WFM5000
and WFM4000.
TandemVu™ Display – Customized Waveform and Vector
view
TandemVu provides the ability to visualize waveform and
vector or lightning displays simultaneously. The user can position
and magnify each trace individually based on his preferences.
TandemVu provides broadcast operators with an efficient way to adjust
and balance cameras in studios or outside broadcast applications.
The Tektronix displays provide sharp traces without pixelation.
The waveform display can be presented on parade and overlay modes
in RGB, YPbPr, YRGB, or pseudo-composite formats. Both fixed and variable
vertical gain are offered, each with the outstanding accuracy and
repeatability that comes from a fully digital design.
The Line
Select provides a line marker in full screen and thumbnail picture
modes.
The vector display is offered with selectable 75% and
100% targets.
Each display automatically selects the appropriate
graticule based on the input format.
Picture Display – Quick
Visual Confirmation and Precision Content Adjustment
For a qualitative view of the content, a full-color picture
display is offered, which can be displayed as a full-screen presentation.
This display is compatible with all input formats and features automatic
adjustment for aspect ratio and number of active lines.
You
can select brightup conditions that show the location of RGB
or composite gamut errors on the picture display. The line-select
mode shows the location of the line currently selected within the
picture display.
Users can choose from several Safe Action and Safe Title graticules on the picture display which help
Editors and Operators easily identify incorrectly positioned video
content such as graphics, titles, or logos.
Graticule choices
include the Safe Action and Safe Title graticules defined in SMPTE
RP218, ITU, and ARIB, standards, plus two sets of totally flexible,
user-definable graticules.
These graticules facilitate editing
tasks and reduce the need for format conversions.
Alarms,
Quality Statistics, and Logging – Thorough and Fast Content Verification
The WFM5000 and WFM4000 offer a variety of displays designed
to show status at a glance, in addition to the status bar continually
displayed at the bottom of the screen.
A comprehensive overview
of the video content status is presented in the Video Session display.
Offering a time-based compilation of information, this screen is ideal
for presenting evidence of compliance after content screening. Information
on input format and session time is presented, along with statistics
on Error Detection and Handling (EDH) / Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
and Gamut errors.
The Alarm Status display provides continuous
information on the state of each condition currently being monitored
by the instrument.
To support unattended monitoring applications,
as well as provide documentation for service-level agreements, these
instruments maintain an error log of 10,000 events, which facilitates
the detection and correction of problems. Log entries are recorded
with date, time-of-day, and time code (VITC, LTC, ANC). The error
log can be downloaded to TXT or HTM formats for easy record keeping
and processing on spreadsheets or database software.
Digital
Audio Capabilities – Equipped Standard
Audio monitoring
capabilities for both digital AES and Embedded audio are available
as standard in the WFM5000 and WFM4000.
The instruments feature
Level Bars display and both Bars and Lissajous display. These displays
can be selected to provide monitoring for both embedded and AES digital
audio formats with up to eight channels (2 channels for AES Audio).
The level meters offer selectable meter ballistics and scaling
plus they are user configurable. The over and silence settings augment
digital clip and mute detection by letting users select levels to
represent these conditions in the analog audio domain.
The
Audio Session display records the highest true peak, as well as the
number of mutes, clips, overs, and silences during the session time.
Tektronix instruments provide accurate peak-level measurements.
