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Table Of Contents
- Color User Manual
- Contents
- Color Documentation and Resources
- Color Correction Basics
- Color Correction Workflows
- Using the Color Interface
- Importing and Managing Projects and Media
- Creating and Opening Projects
- Saving Projects and Archives
- Moving Projects Between FinalCutPro and Color
- Reconforming Projects
- Importing EDLs
- Exporting EDLs
- Relinking QuickTime Media
- Importing Media Directly into The Timeline
- Compatible Media Formats
- Converting Cineon and DPX Image Sequences to QuickTime
- Importing Color Corrections
- Exporting JPEG Images
- Setup
- Monitoring
- Timeline Playback, Navigation, and Editing
- Video Scopes
- Primary In
- Secondaries
- Color FX
- Primary Out
- Managing Corrections and Grades
- The Difference Between Corrections and Grades
- Saving and Using Corrections and Grades
- Applying Saved Corrections and Grades to Shots
- Managing Grades in the Timeline
- Using the “Copy to” Buttons in the Primary Rooms
- Using the Copy Grade and Paste Grade Memory Banks
- Setting a Beauty Grade in the Timeline
- Disabling All Grades
- Managing Grades in the Shots Browser
- Using the Primary, Secondary, and Color FX Rooms Together to Manage Each Shot’s Corrections
- Keyframing
- Geometry
- Still Store
- Render Queue
- Calibrating Your Monitor
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Setting Up a Control Surface
- Index
150 Chapter 8 Video Scopes
Luma
The Luma scope shows you the relative levels of brightness within the image. Spikes or
drops in the displayed waveform make it easy to see hot spots or dark areas in your
picture.
The difference between the highest peak and the lowest dip of the Luma scope’s
graticule shows you the total contrast ratio of the shot, and the average thickness of
the waveform shows its average exposure. Waveforms that are too low are indicative of
images that are dark, while waveforms that are too high may indicate overexposure.
If you’re doing a QC pass of a program with the Broadcast Safe settings turned off, you
can also use the scale to easily spot video levels that are over and under the
recommended limits.
Overexposed waveform
Underexposed waveform
Well-exposed waveform