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(Left) The Parade scope
showing the data range scale,
(Right) The Parade scope
showing the HDR “nit” scale
Video Scope Performance and Detail
All video scopes were updated for DaVinci Resolve 16 to show more detail with faster
performance than in previous versions. While they’re GPU-accelerated, the video scopes
require a certain amount of video processing power to operate. Depending on which
combination of video scopes and scope options you have selected, you may notice your real
time processing capabilities ever so slightly affected. Closing the video scopes frees up all
processing for color correction and effects. On high-powered workstations, you probably won’t
notice a difference, but on less powerful computers, closing the scopes might make a small
difference.
Two global settings in the video scope option menu affect the performance and detail of all
video scopes equally.
On slower workstations, a quality submenu lets you choose High, Medium, or Low
quality scope drawing, to trade off legibility for performance. High quality shows you
the most information about the video signal, while an Auto option makes a selection
based on your workstation’s capabilities.
The Quality setting in the video scope option menu
All video scopes have a Low Pass Filter setting in the Scopes Option menu that filters
out a signal’s noise to make the scope graphs clearer to read. While this can act as
an “x-ray” to better see detail in the scope graph interiors, it can make the highlight
and shadow excursions on the graph seem a bit shy of where they actually are, so it’s
recommended to enable the “Extents” option of whichever scope you’re using to get
an unambiguous look at the maximum excursions in your scopes. Extents draws an
outline highlighting all graph excursions to show you the true level of all overshoots and
undershoots in the video signal, even when the Low Pass Filter is on.
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