Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 408)

Note: The step in the second bullet also applies to the monitoring of composite signals,
but you really, really shouldn’t be monitoring a composite signal if you’re doing color
correction.
Once your monitor is correctly calibrated, all the gray bars will be evenly gray and all the
black bars evenly black.
When the phase (similar
to hue) of the monitor is
correctly adjusted, you
should see alternating
bars of gray and black,
as shown.
Y
′
C
B
C
R
Rendering and Color Bars
Y
′
C
B
C
R
rendering must be supported by the codec used in a sequence in order for
Final Cut Pro to render color bars with a PLUGE (Picture Lineup Generation Equipment)
area that includes a super-black (4 IRE in NTSC, 2 IRE in PAL) signal for calibration. The
PLUGE part of the test signal cannot be rendered using an RGB-based codec.
408 Appendix A Calibrating Your Monitor