From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
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Reading a vectorscope
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
Reading a vectorscope
Robbie Carman: If you have a laptop, bring it with you on set or into the field. Because potentially you have a very powerful set of video scopes at your disposal. If you've installed adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro 10, Black Magic Ultra Scope or ScopeBox, you have a plethora of very powerful analysis tools at your finger tips. Now, here on set, what I've done is, I've actually gone ahead and taken the memory card that I was recording with and plugged it into a card reader to my laptop right here. But some cameras now actually let you output live to a laptop via a connection like Thunderbolt, which is pretty cool. But as I've said, I've already gone ahead and transferred a clip from my memory card into Adobe Premier Pro. And I want to show you a few more tools that we have to analyze our shots. So, we've taken a look at how to use a waveform and a histogram on a field monitor, but many field monitors are not going to have additional scopes such as a vector scope and an RGB parade…
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