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Viewing the grid

The Video Preview window can display vertical and horizontal lines over your video. You can use the grid to help you align objects. To view the grid, click the down arrow next to the Overlays button () and choose Grid.

Set the grid spacing using the Horizontal grid divisions and Vertical grid divisions settings on the Video tab in the Preferences dialog.

Isolating color channels

The Video Preview window allows you to select a specific channel to be isolated and whether the channel should be displayed in grayscale only. To display a channel, click the down arrow next to the Overlays button

() and choose a color channel.

Note: Use the Alpha as Grayscale setting to isolate the Alpha channel mask and display it in grayscale.

Monitoring video with scopes

Video scopes are only available in the full version of Vegas software.

From the View menu, choose Video Scopes to toggle the display of the Video Scopes window.

Broadcast video uses a narrower range of color than the RGB you see on your computer. When you broadcast a project that contains out-of-range colors, you can introduce image problems or even noise into the audio stream.

Use the scopes to analyze the your video and adjust accordingly with the Brightness and Contrast, Broadcast Colors, Color Corrector, Color Corrector (Secondary), and Levels plug-ins before rendering.

Choose a setting from the drop-down list to choose which scope you want to display.

Choose setting Display video scopes settings

Update scopes while playing

PREVIEWING AND ANALYZING VIDEO

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