From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
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Reading a waveform monitor
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
Reading a waveform monitor
Male 1: So the Histogram is a great tool that almost every single DSLR has built into it. But there's two problems with the Histogram. First, on most DSLR's, or DSLR's that I know of any way, it doesn't update in real time. So as you re-frame the shot, you change lights, it doesn't really work with live video. You have to take a still, and then look at that still, and analyze it. The other problem with a Histogram, is it doesn't actually show you where in the frame, different brightness values are happening. So, a lot of people rely on a waveform, and I have a waveform up here, on this little portable field monitor. This guy, right here, and the waveform is the principle tool that I think you should use, to analyze brightness in your shots. And here's how it works. The waveform works on a scale, going from 0 up to 100, where 0 is black and 100 is white. There's actually a little bit of headroom above and below 100 and 0, so you can have what's called super black and super white. All…
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