Histogram

[videoFred]

Hello everybody,

Lately, I have learned a lot about video editing. Good color and levels editing is, in my opinion, nearly impossible without the help of a decent RGB and luma histogram.

Trevlac has made an exellent VirtualDub plugin: 'color tools'.

But it would be very useful if the histogram would be visible all the time, in a separate window, showing the histogram from the edited picture.

A transparant RGB histogram overlay over the -edited- picture could be a good alternative...

Two questions:

1) No way we could do this with Avisynth?
2) How do you all set levels etc.. without the histogram?

Thank you all in advance,

Fred.

[FlimsyFeet]

Have you looked at the histogram functions built in to Avisynth?
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Histogram

[videoFred]

Hi Flimsyfeet,

Yes, but my masters are in uncompressed RGB24...
I realy need a true RGB histogram.

Fred.

[Mug Funky]

the vectorscope mode is also quite useful (though it's upside-down...) for good colour balance adjustments.

personally i would prefer an RGB parade style waveform monitor than a histogram - it's a bit more related to the image at hand.

[videoFred]

Hello Mug Funky,

But in practice, do you use it?
(I mean Trevlacs VD color tools plugin)

Fred.