Test Pattern Maker

Test Pattern Maker is a powerful software utility that is completely free of charge and is essential for generating high-quality video and audio test patterns. It is absolutely essential to cast your video production in the best possible light and to ensure that your equipment is calibrated correctly. Different video editing systems use different video and audio levels, so it is a challenge to find accurate tests for a specific system. The solution is to use Test Pattern Maker, which makes it simple to generate the exact tests you need in the format you require.

You can easily use this free Macintosh utility to create a wide range of standard video and audio test patterns. You can create video test patterns such as luma step and ramp patterns, SMPTE, EIA and EBU bars, as well as convergence and overscan tests. All of these tests can be generated in a number of standard NTSC and PAL frame sizes, pixel aspect ratios, black and white levels, and saved in several image file formats. To create audio tone tests, you can choose the frequency, level, and duration you require.

This software utility generates eight video test patterns, including EIA Color Bars, EBU Color Bars, SMPTE-style Color Bars, 5-Step Luma Test, 10-Step Luma Test, Luma Ramp, Convergence, and Overscan. Additionally, it supports square and rectangular-pixel video formats and RGB (0-255) and Rec. 601 (16-235) video formats. This ensures compatibility with a wide range of non-linear editing systems such as Final Cut Pro, Avid, Media100, Premiere, and EditDV.

Another key benefit of this software utility is that it produces exceptional and precise sine-wave audio test tones, which ensures that you are calibrating your audio equipment correctly. So, to get the most out of your video production equipment, get Test Pattern Maker, which requires QuickTime 3.0 or later.