I understand the idea of simplifying the visuals of the scope. The graticule presented by a Harris VTM-4100 vectorscope Other then that, you’re looking at a big black area with a blob of a graph at the center that shows you all the data.
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Once you learn to read the graph of a Vectorscope, there’s a lot you can see.ĭespite all this utility, the average HD vectorscope graticule in this day and age of graphically drawn software scopes shows nothing but boxes to indicate each of the target hues found in the 75% color bars test pattern, sometimes a second set of 100% bars boxes, usually a small (tiny) crosshairs to indicate the very center of 0% saturation, and maybe an In-phase indication line ( or skin tone indicator line, depending on who named it). Speaking as a colorist and not a broadcast engineer, they’re useful for comparing saturation levels between clips, for comparing the angle of hue of specific features appearing in multiple clips, for QC checking to make sure the signal is within tolerance, checking for overall errors in hue, and creatively they’re useful for evaluating how much color contrast you’ve got in your image, and in what direction the average color balance or dominant color temperature of the scene is leaning. I’ve used several different hardware and software-based Vectorscopes over the years.
Older hardware-based Vectorscopes had the graticule silkscreened on a plastic overlay, so it was fixed and unchanging. The graticule, (sometimes called a reticle), is the overlay that presents targets, reference lines, crosshairs, and other guides to help when interpreting the trace or graph of a Vectorscope’s analysis. It’s time for a new Vectorscope graticule.
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