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Spearhead Display
Waveform monitors have become more and more sophisticated in order to meet the monitoring and measurement demands
placed on production, post-production and engineering staffs resulting from the need to work with a multitude of formats in a
variety of ways. If you can remember the days when a typical waveform monitor had four or five push buttons and maybe three
or four knobs you’re probably thinking, “oh how simple it was then.” I can relate to that, but today’s challenges demand more
sophisticated waveform monitors and, “sorry to say”, that means the configuration and operation of these instruments has
become more complicated.
Presets go a long way toward bringing back the simplicity:
Presets are a simple a way of saving a set of conditions that can easily be recalled later. You can give them real world names that
eliminate the need to keep a list of 32 presets and what they were for.
If you have not tried the sample Top Ten Presets they are available at www.tektronix.com.
Summary
The Spearhead Display provides a simplified, 2D gamut ara of valid, real time RGB signals for content creation, color
correction, color grading, format conversion and distribution.
This new display augments the current gamut displays of Diamond and Arrowhead for RGB adjustment and color correction.
Spearhead completes and complements the artistic use of Vector for color Hue by adding a measurable assessment of the
artistic color metrics of the true Saturation, Value and Lightness not previously available in video signal monitoring/measurement
equipment.
Figure 9.
Configuration Screen for Spearhead Display.
Figure 10.
Spearhead Preset.
