While the Vectorscope is used to determine the color saturation of the video, it is also used to help color correct our video, which can have a color cast or tint to it. Even the type of lights in the room with the monitor have an effect. Every monitor is different, even calibrated monitors and everyone sees colors differently, many people even have some degree of color blindness (men more so than women), so we use the Vectorscope to objectively evaluate the video.

There are two areas that need to be looked at to insure that our video is Broadcast Safe the luminance of the video as shown in the Waveform monitor and the color saturation as shown in the Vectorscope.Īside from keeping our video Broadcast Safe, another reason for using the Vectorscope is because we can not objectively evaluate the colors of our video by eye. While it's true that the Vectorscope deals with color and not luminance, if a color in the video is overly saturated, then the video would not be Safe for Broadcast. In my Waveform monitor article, some attention is given to making the video 'Broadcast Safe' by adjusting the luminance in the video. This article is going to cover the Vectorscope.

The Waveform monitor displays the luminance or brightness of our video from black to white and the Vectorscope, which uses a circular graph, not unlike a color wheel, shows the colors, hues and color saturation of the footage. For me, the two most important scopes and the ones that I use, are the Waveform monitor and the Vectorscope. FCP offers four different scopes for us to work with Waveform Monitor, Vectorscope, Histogram, and RGB Parade.

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