Parade Display - Blackmagicdesign ATEM Production Studio 4K Installation And Operation Manual

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Parade Display

The Parade Display is ideal for checking for illegal saturation and levels.
Press the RGB button to display the full height of each color channel as red, green and blue.
Monitoring the levels of each red, green and blue color channel makes it is easy to view color
balance in the blacks, mids and whites of the video signal. Parade Display enables you to
identify details common to the red, green and blue channels.
Parade Display
It's usually important to make sure you're not clipping the video levels. Make sure the video is
full level but not clipped. You can turn on the GAMUT function, and any illegal levels will be
highlighted in bright red, so they are easy to see. Instructions for setting gamut limits can be
found in the Error Logging Display section of this manual. If you want to increase the video level,
then make sure it doesn't go above the upper RGB limit or you will encounter illegal levels.
Some equipment won't let you generate illegal 100% RGB levels, however other equipment will.
Blackmagic UltraScope lets you see illegal levels whenever they occur.
Illegal video can also happen in blacks as well as whites. Some equipment produces black levels
which can be lowered below the black point of 0%. These levels will be shown as bright red if this
falls below the lower gamut limit and the GAMUT warning mode is enabled. If you observe illegal
black levels, just add some Lift or Gain to eliminate them but check the 100% graticule level to
make sure the whole video signal has not lifted and generated illegal colors in the whites.
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