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Optionally, you can click the Expand button at the top right of the video scope to open the
video scopes into a floating window, within which you can display all four video scopes
together, or individually, on any monitor connected to your workstation.
Video scopes in a floating window
Additionally, the video scopes are available in many of the dual-screen layouts available in
DaVinci Resolve. The video scopes aren’t just available in the Color page. They’re also available
in the Media and Deliver pages for whenever you need to evaluate the video signal more
objectively, such as when you’re setting up to capture from tape or scan from film, or when
you’re setting up for output.
To open video scopes from the Media, Color, or Deliver pages, do one of the following:
 Choose Workspace > Video Scopes > On/Off (Command-Shift-W) to open video
scopes into a floating window.
 Choose Workspace > Dual Screen > On to open video scopes as part of a
dual screen layout.
Video Scope Measurement
Because you’re evaluating the internal state of the image data, by default the scales of the
WFM and Parade scopes always reflect 10-bit full range data from 0–1023, regardless of the
Video/Data Level setting you’ve selected in the Master Settings panel of the Project Settings.
This gives you a window into how the image is being processed by DaVinci Resolve prior to
being output via your computer’s video I/O interface.
If you’re working on an HDR (High Dynamic Range) grade, you can open the User Preferences
and turn on Enable HDR Scopes for ST.2084 and HLG (this feature is only available in
Studio version). This replaces the 10-bit scale of the Waveform, Parade, and Histogram video
scopes with a scale based on nit values (or cd/m
2
) instead.
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