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Getting to grips with a vectorscope

Getting to grips with a vectorscope

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Getting to grips with a vectorscope

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- [Instructor] Vectorscopes make perfect sense once you're familiar with color wheels; however, the indicators are much more subtle, and it can take a little visualization to make out what's happening. You may encounter more than one kind of vectorscope, too. A film grading style HSL scope, that's hue, saturation, and luminesce, or a YUV scope. If you're working with video, you're very likely to use the YUV version. These two kinds of scope work in a similar way, but the YUV scope has useful markings to help you identify specific colors. Right now, I'm looking at the Lumetri Scopes panel YUV vectorscope in Adobe Premiere Pro, but you should find this description useful in any application that includes a vectorscope. The vectorscope display is laid out in the same way as a color wheel, so take a look at my lesson on understanding color wheels for a quick introduction. The pixels in the current frame are displayed in the vectorscope according to their hue and level of color saturation…

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