Re: Understanding the Parade scope

I'll most likely get taken to task for my views here but whatever.

The built-in scopes are weak at best. The parade would be far better with YRGB functionality rather than just RGB functionality. You measure your luma levels with the waveform and the Y component with the Luma option selected on the waveform. The parade measures RGB levels relative to each other. Where I find the parade most useful is indeed with regard to setting your black/white color balance as the vectorscope is rather, umm, weak at what it's supposed to do which to is measure chroma levels.

Set your luma levels looking at the luma waveform, switch to parade to set the balance of your colors relative to each other and disregard whether your blue black is below zero or not as it's irrelevant provided your luma levels are safely set. Or learn how to use a vectorscope efficiently and effectively.

This would be way easier and faster to accomplish if Apple could see fit to provide YRGB waveform functionality or if you could have a second independent waveform display that would measure luma as in the FCP scopes tool bench. Unfortunately Apple has provide neither in Color.

So, in the end, it's just better to have hardware scopes with these options unfortunately those jewels are out of the price range of the casual user. There's no excuse for anyone who's making money with FCP/Color to not have external scopes.