Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1213)

426 Part II Project Interchange
Viewing and Choosing Display Options for Video Scopes
Various options in the video scopes are designed to help you better focus on the visual
information you’re looking for. You can choose to see one or more options.
To see video scope options that are currently displayed:
m Control-click anywhere in a video scope, then choose an option from the shortcut
menu that appears.
Options that are enabled, or displayed, have a checkmark next to them.
 Green or White: The waveforms displayed within all the scopes can be green or white,
depending on which color you find easier to look at. Final Cut Pro defaults to white,
which is the preferred display, because it doesn’t bias the eye toward any particular
color. In the Parade scope, these options are Pale and Bright; see below.
 Pale or Bright: In the Parade scope, because the waveforms are tinted different colors,
the scopes can be pale or bright.
 Saturation: This option is available in the Waveform Monitor only and lets you enable
or disable the display of saturation. With saturation disabled, the waveforms display
only the luma of the selected video signal, and appear to be a series of lines or dots.
This can be useful if you’re interested solely in the relative luma of different parts of
the video frame. With saturation enabled, these lines expand vertically to appear as
“fuzzy” bars (if color bars are being displayed) or as a much thicker series of
waveforms. The thickness of the waveform represents the amount of saturation in
the chroma of your video clip.
Note: The color bar targets displayed in the Waveform Monitor change automatically,
depending on whether or not saturation is enabled.
The shortcut menu in
the Waveform Monitor