All language subtitles for Procolor_C05_L1c_Vectorscope

The next scope we should talk about
is the vector scope.

The vector scope
is a way of measuring what

column your shot and how strong they are.

So it's not so much about brightness
or position like the waveform.

It's all about

how much of what color do you have
in your shot and how strong is it.

So we can look at this shot and say, okay,
we have lots of red.

Look at all this red.

We have a little bit of yellow like this
yellow door.

We have a little tinge of pink
right here on the sidewalk.

And then we have black and white.

And those are kind of the main colors
in the image.

So vector scope is

just a way to kind of measure
what color is it and how strong is it.

You can think about it this way.

Like if you've ever done a color wheel
in like art class,

it's kind of a rainbow
that goes in a circle, right?

And a vector scope
is sort of a way to kind of represent

what colors are in your shot
using a color wheel.

So if we were to kind of graph this stuff
on a color wheel, we'd have lots of red.

We'd have a little bit of yellow and
a little bit of this kind of pink, right.

So let's take a look at a couple of shots
through the vector scope.

Let's go back to this shot here.

And we

have a lot of pretty much one color here.

Okay.

It's a really nice saturated pink.

And if we look at our vector scope,
we see we have a cloud here in the middle

and we have a lot of this kind of magenta
color.

Now, this helps us out a little bit
because it shows the actual color here

on the vector scope,
but you don't actually need it.

You can turn off colorize here
and you can get the same amount

of information
because again, this is like a color wheel.

The direction that this cloud moves
is the actual hue.

So that's kind of what color it is.

So this is really pushed towards magenta.

It's a little bit
rather than kind of a pure magenta,

but all around kind of this clockface,
we have magenta, red,

yellow, green, cyan and blue.

And the farther you get out
towards the edge of this clock,

the stronger the colors are,
the more saturated they are.

Whereas in the

middle,
that's when they're less saturated.

So if I were to take this and grab my hue
control right here

and rotate this around, this is going to
change the colors in the image.

But you can also,
if I make my vector scope big here,

you can also see the vector scope rotates

because all of the colors

are being pushed in a different direction.

So that's a great way to kind of learn
how the vector scope works.

As if you have a monochromatic image
like this,

you can really easily see that
the direction on the graph is the color.

And if I take my saturation up or down,

how far away things are from the middle,

kind of the size of that cloud
is how saturated they are.

So if I boost the saturation
all the way up, we'll see.

This is just way oversaturated.

It's touching the edge of that clock,
which is way too strong.

If we take saturation all the way down,
it's just a little dot in the middle.

So if you have a black and white image,

this is all
your vector scope is going to show you.

Because there isn't any saturation,
there isn't any color.

It's all just gray.

So it may seem really obvious
for a shot like this,

but for some shots, it's kind of
hard to tell if your colors are neutral

and kind of what colors
are actually happening in the image.

And this can be really helpful

to kind of reinforce
whether something's too warm or too cold.

Whether your skin tones
actually look like skin tones or not.

Because if we take maybe this offset wheel

and really we're kind of pushing our cloud
around here in the vector scope.

So if I want everything
to be a little bit warm

and leave this background
a little bit cool,

I can push everything to be kind of
in this upper left hand quadrant,

which should be kind of warm

and leave this little bit,
which is our window down where it's cool.

I can also

push this farther to where our window
is totally normalized

and everything else is really,
really warm.

But right here,
this is pretty much pure white.

And I can tell it because it's more
towards the middle of the graph.

This is great for a shot that your white
balance might not be quite right.

So on this shot, everything's
just a little bit blue.

And I can tell just because everything's
in this lower right hand quadrant

and a lot of these pixels where this is
the brightest here is down here

and it has a little bit of a cool
tinge to it.

So I can take this offset
and push that up to where that cloud is

right
there in the middle of these crosshairs.

And now everything is a lot more neutral.

So the vector scope
and the parade are, in my opinion,

the two most helpful scopes in resolve,

because you can tell so much information
just by looking at these two graphs.

I can tell really quickly how bright
certain elements in the image are,

how saturated the image is,
and what color things tend to be.

This is essential
for adjusting your images and making sure

things look correct and making sure
your eyes aren't playing tricks on you.