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The role video scopes play in evaluating shots

The role video scopes play in evaluating shots

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The role video scopes play in evaluating shots

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- So, earlier in this title, we talked about creative shot evaluation and we talked about time and effort evaluation. It's now time to talk about technical shot evaluation. And to do that, we're gonna use video scopes. Throughout the rest of this chapter, we're gonna jump over to DaVinci Resolve and use its video scopes to technically evaluate shots. But before we do that, I thought it would be a good idea just to talk about the overall role of video scopes when it comes to shot evaluation. Earlier, I mentioned that your eyes and your brain are kinda constantly lying to you, and they're doing nasty things like visual adaption to kinda trick you into believing something that you're seeing is true when in fact might not be. So, I like to think about video scopes as a superpower that each one of us can employ. Video scopes help us defeat the lies that our eyes and our brain might be telling us. In fact, what they really do is they provide an analytical snapshot of what a shot is really…

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