Re: to scope or not to scope?

I've delivered hundreds of hours of television for broadcast (albeit the vast vast majority with Avid) and had very few issues. In my case I've usually had hardware scopes at my disposal, but don't often need to refer to them. Also, even with scopes it can be quite easy to miss things, a single frame of illegal luma may be enough to fail a program, and very easy to miss without a logging scope.

So far I've found the FCP scopes to be very much in line with what my hardware scopes say and using a digital I/O (Firewire or SDI) I've never had noticeable difference in displayed and recorded levels.

If you have a good relationship with your broadcaster it's not a bad idea to send an ep in early for a helpful tech check to make sure that everything is as it should be.

Of course, all my experience is within PAL which I believe can be a little simpler in things like this.