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your color perception. Pass the color bars from your camera through to program output (or use
a color bars image in one of TriCaster’s media players for this purpose.
D.3.3 SETTING BLACK AND WHITE
As mentioned earlier, NTSC and PAL (and NTSC-J) regions use different black levels, so it’s no
surprise that they take different approaches to setting black and white levels, and that their
respective color bar displays vary from one another. Likewise, we’ll treat calibrating for NTSC
and PAL separately.
NTSC
NTSC color bars have a special group of grayscale bars designated as the “PLUGE” (the acronym
stands for Picture Line-Up Generation Equipment) in the lower-right area.
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(The images in this section have been adjusted slightly to accentuate the subtle differences in the
black bars making up this region.)