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Using peaking and "focus in red"

Using peaking and "focus in red"

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Using peaking and "focus in red"

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Rich Harrington: One additional benefit of using an external monitor, besides a bigger screen. Robbie Carman: Mm-hm. Rich Harrington: Is you've got features like peeking, or focus in red. Robbie Carman: Yeah, and this is something that like, you know, you're looking at things. You're like, well, yeah. Sure it's in focus. And we talked about this before, right? Everything looks good on the back of a camera LCD. Rich Harrington: And, and, and. While this will show you more things out of focus what happens, I mean you do a lot of high end finishing. Robbie Carman: Yep. Rich Harrington: Shots come in. They're softer. Robbie Carman: They're soft and even though everybody swears that they were in focus, and sort of peaking is a great way to sort of get a more analytically look at your focus. Instead of just trusting these two things in your head, you can trust the monitor and hopefully it's not lying to you, that hey these things are in focus. So the way that peaking works is that it…

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