Atomos Ninja 2 - Manual (Page 20)

False Colour Scale:
To help you determine the exposure range with more accuracy,
please use the scale below:
Gradient can be ena bled in the settings area.
Blue for Exposure
Displays a black-and-white image that is based on the blue channel
of the input signal. Used to observe the noise content of a video
image and the judge the overall exposure quality.
Settings
On the bottom left side is the icon to amend the settings of the tools.
Current settings are for Focus Peaking, Zebra and False Colour.
SmartLog
SmartLog gives you the ability to tag your clips during recording (or
playback, more on this later).
By the pressing the
Favourite
and
Reject
icons you can
assign a “good clip” or “bad clip”. This information can then be
imported into a non-linear editing system to speed up the edit
process, as you can easily see which parts of your recording you
have marked to keep or reject.
SmartLog currently only works with Apple FCP X.
How to use
To access the tags, enter the Monitor screen, then press the
Flag
SmartLog: MONITOR MODE
You can now see your monitor in the background and the
Favourite
and
Reject
icons
You will use these icons as an in and out point on the file, pressing
once to set the in point then again to set the output.
When you have selected Favourite, the icon colours will invert (Green
background with black text) and the Reject Icon will disappear. When
Reject is selected the icon colours will invert (red background with
black text) and favourite will disappear.
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8. Monitoring and Recording
cont.