From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Fixing Video Exposure Problems

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Using the Vectorscope

Using the Vectorscope

- A common companion to the waveform monitor is the vectorscope, which is useful to detect both saturation and hue problems. The vectorscope allows you to see a lot of different information that relates to color. You'll find the vectorscope under the same popup icon here for settings. You can enable the vectorscope by simply selecting it, and you'll see that there are two types. YUV and HLS. Hue, lume, or lightness, and saturation. And a more traditional videoscope. If you choose more than one scope, you'll notice that they make room for each other. I'm going to uncheck the waveform here, just to isolate the view. You'll notice that we can see information about color. Let's move to the next shot, and I'll press X to mark that. Well, right here, we can see information about the color. For example, I see that the green is quite strong, and is pushing past this outer ring. This outer box helps denote if there is a color that may be too saturated for broadcast. Now, you might be wondering…

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