New HD Grayscales for Vegas Editors

musicvid10 wrote on 3/7/2011, 9:15 PM
Here are a couple of free (for noncommercial use) grayscales I assembled in Photoshop.

-- 1920x1080 uncompressed PNG
-- RGB 0-255 and 16-235
-- Gamma linear (1.0)
-- Simple design looks very clean on the Vegas scopes

Here is the fullscreen test:


Note that the vectors cross at 127 (256/2 - 1), but I left the border and 50% reference at 128 for conformity with the Vegas scopes.


And here is the transparent "lower thirds" version (put on the top track):


Hope some of you ubertekkies will pick them apart and let me know of any errors or needed improvements. No, I will not include resolution or color charts; these are for tracking luminance levels and gamma only. Feel free to email my username at gmail if you have other questions or needs.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 3/8/2011, 10:47 PM
This Dropbox thing is neat. I saved a new version in Photoshop and it shows up here in a few seconds.
NickHope wrote on 3/8/2011, 10:49 PM
Yeah it's brilliant. Thanks for the charts. They'll be useful.
NickHope wrote on 5/18/2017, 12:09 AM

**OLD THREAD ALERT**

Some new links for these useful charts, since Dropbox deprecated their "Public" folder and broke all our links:

1920x1080 Dualgray

1920x1080 Grayscale Lower Third

720x480 Dualgray

720x576 Dualgray

Musicvid wrote on 5/18/2017, 7:47 PM

Thanks Nick!

wwjd wrote on 5/21/2017, 9:53 AM

Do these work on monitors AND TV screens? What are examples of usage? Thanks!

Musicvid wrote on 5/21/2017, 6:11 PM

It has 0-255 and 16-235 gradients optimized for Vegas scopes, use from door-to-door anywhere you need a reference.

NickHope wrote on 5/21/2017, 10:13 PM

Do these work on monitors AND TV screens? What are examples of usage? Thanks!

Typically you might put one on your timeline then look for differences between the 235-255 blocks or 0-16 blocks in a secondary monitor preview or final delivered video. If you're seeing all white or all black in those areas, that indicates that your workflow "expands levels" (for want of a better term) and so is clipping detail in the highlights and shadows. Hence you may want to apply an FX to "squeeze levels" to account for that, for example if your source video is full range 0-255.

In conjunction with the scopes, they're also useful for things like seeing what gamma is being used in various modes and with various FX.