Video Scope for Broadcast

Does anyone have a suggestion for a plug-in or idea so that I can get a video scope for editing work I am doing for TV broadcast? I want to make sure my colors are good to go each time and did not see to find much in CS3 that will help that much for me.
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OK, thanks for the info. Sorry I've got no more "cohesive" answer for you, as such, but here are some things to think about regarding PPro and video levels.
1.) When editing HDV, PPro incorrectly converts RGB<->YUV as Rec.601. This can be seen on the scopes within Premiere. So -- scopes or not -- maintaining accurate colors can be difficult in HDV projects. DV projects with DV media have no issue here.
2.) When output via AME, all YUV sources (DV, HDV, etc.) are converted to RGB. The same is true for DebugMode when set to RGB. Since your MPEG2 (or H.264) encoder must then convert these back to YUV, the transformation is done in such a way that luma levels are essentially clipped to the legal range of 16-235. Yo may still want to know what your luma levels are, but they will never be out-of-range when you output from Premiere in RGB.
3.) Considering point #2 above, it is unlikely that chroma will ever exceed the "legal" range of 240. I am not certain of this, but I believe that AME (and most encoders) will map RGB -> YUV as "clamped" to legal chroma ranges (as with the luma).
4.) Since output to MPEG2, etc. from Premiere will implicitly have a YUV->RGB->YUV conversion, the values you see in PPro's built in scopes are not necessarily the values that will be appear in your final output. The scopes may be give you an idea of how much will be clipped, but little more.
5.) You can get a more realistic and accurate picture using DebugMode FrameServer in YUY2 mode and opening the "signpost.avi" in AviSynth. There is the Vscope plugin for AviSynth that will show you the YUV values on output. Assuming that your encoder (such as ProCoder, CCE, HC Encoder to name a few) can natively handle YUV ouput via AviSynth, these scopes will allow you to see the values that will ultimately be encoded. This YUY2 output may contain illegal values, however. Fortunately AviSynth provides a simple way of clipping these without performing a YUV->RGB->YUV conversion. The command
Limiter(16, 235, 16, 240) will clip your values into legal ranges.
So, there's my 2 cents on the subject. Take it as you please.

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