Now have a look at how the YC Waveform Monitor displays this.Īs you can see, the white area is in the correct space horizontally (left to right) but because it is a white area which is exactly the same color throughout. Here is an image with a white area at the bottom of the screen on the left and a dark area at the top of the screen on the right.
Such that if the shot has a bright part it will show up as an area towards the top of the YC waveform monitor (even if that bright part is at the bottom of your shot). However, the vertical scale (top to bottom) then looks at the brightness and darkness of each part of your shot from left to right. As said above, left to right on the footage is the same as left to right on the graph. Using the YC Waveform in Premiere Pro is more simple than you might think. You can see the complete range of the luminance and chrominance of a shot with the solid lines at the far right of the graph. It will not affect the footage in any way.įor a well balanced shot the chroma values should pretty much overlay the luminance values and are usually a slightly wider range than the luminance values. The ‘Intensity:’ setting gives you the ability to make the graph more or less intense should you struggle to see a fine point or if you find the graph too bright in your work area. To be honest with you, this is the way I usually use this monitor. If you look at the top of the monitor you will see a little check box next to the word Chroma which gives you the ability to turn off the Chroma element of the view so that you can just see the Y or Luminance portion of your shot. So, what are you looking at with the YC waveform monitor? Well, Y = Luminance and C = Chrominance.
It’s important to be aware that the horizontal scale represents the horizontal part of your image, but the vertical scale shows something else instead – the luminance (or brightness) of the image. You can end up having to guess which bit in the monitor refers to which bit in your footage unless you have a very clear feature (as with the wave in the following images). Why is this a little problematic?Īs you look at the Premiere Pro YC waveform monitor from left to right, it represents the footage from left to right. This is simply because the monitor itself is usually not as wide as the footage in the program monitor. However, I think it’s worth saying at this point that you need to exercise a little caution when using the YC waveform monitor. I probably use this graph more than any other in Premiere Pro. Let’s jump into using the YC waveform in Premiere…. You can select any of the video scopes available in Premiere Pro either through the ‘Spanner’ icon (as shown above) or through the ‘Panel Menu’ (the little icon at the top right of every panel in Première Pro).
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In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the YC waveform and explain how to use it to improve your footage. One of the most useful is the YC Waveform Monitor, which looks especially at the brightness range of shots. Premiere Pro provides monitors to evaluate footage in a controlled way.
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