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713Final Cut Pro User Guide
Final Cut Pro provides the following video measurement tools:
• Waveform monitor
• Vectorscope
• Histogram
• Range check overlay
Even if your project is not intended for broadcast, using these tools is an important part of
your workflow. If the monitors you’re using don’t display color accurately or you’ve been
working with the same clips for a while, you can easily get used to seeing a color cast,
or blacks that aren’t quite right. The video scopes provide exact measurements of the
luma and chroma levels of your clips so that you can make more informed color correction
decisions. You can display multiple video scopes at once and choose from among 12
different scopes layouts. See
Display video scopes in Final Cut Pro.
To ensure accurate information in the video scopes and range check overlay, make sure
your video clips have the correct color space metadata. See Change a clip’s color space
metadata.
Additionally, you can use the Broadcast Safe filter (available in the Effects browser) as
a quick way to reduce luma and chroma levels that exceed the specification limits for
standard and wide-gamut color spaces in standard-dynamic-range (SDR) video media. To
add the Broadcast Safe filter, see
Add video effects in Final Cut Pro.