Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1304)

Measuring Video Levels with the Final Cut Pro Video Scopes
The Final Cut Pro video scopes work similarly to the standard scopes that you’d find in
any online or color correction suite. The scopes provide exact measurements of the luma
and chroma levels of your clips, helping you to unambiguously spot all of the hue,
saturation, and luma levels that differentiate one clip from another. This lets you make
more informed decisions about adjusting Final Cut Pro color correction filters to more
closely match one clip with another.
The following scopes are available:
• Waveform Monitor
• Vectorscope
• Histogram
• RGB Parade
Opening Video Scopes Tabs
You can open multiple Video Scopes tabs and display a different scope in each tab.
To open a Video Scopes tab in the Tool Bench window
1 Choose Tools > Video Scopes (or press Option-9).
The Tool Bench window
appears containing a
Video Scopes tab.
View pop-up menu
Layout pop-up menu
2 Choose which video scopes you want to view from the Layout pop-up menu.
3 Choose the video frame you want to analyze from the View pop-up menu.
For more information, see “Layout Options in Video Scopes Tabs.”
To open and use the Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope during log and capture, see
“Using Built-in Video Scopes During Capture.”
1304 Chapter 78 Measuring and Setting Video Levels