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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
ors, for example, for a legal broadcast signal, this video scope already
indicates the safety area of the colors: The dotted line represents the full
color values (100 %) whereas the squares show the colors with 75 %
of their values.
Figure 5-7: The vectorscope 75 %
The colors of the output image should be located within the area en-
closed by the squares. Any point beyond them will be located inside the
headroom and it may not be possible to give it out correctly during a
play-out.
RGB Parade
The RGB parade displays graphically the distribution of the color com-
ponents red, green and blue (RGB). Each component is displayed sep-
arately. For a parade the output image is evaluated line by line, and for
each line the color distribution is drawn.
Figure 5-8: The RGB parade
White areas of an output image would appear as an accumulation of
dots in all three color components near the 100 % line (minus head-
room, if applicable). Black image areas would be displayed as an accu-