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What are the 75% and 100% colour-bar targets, which should a scope be set to, and what code values do they have?

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Vendor manuals expose 75% vs 100% as a setting that must match the bar signal being fed (Tektronix WFM5200 and 1740A, Blackmagic SmartScope): the vectorscope graticule targets are drawn for one or the other. ITU-R BT.2111-3 (HDR bars) tabulates the codes: 100% bars use 940/64 and 75% bars use 721/64 at 10-bit (2884 at 12-bit), with a 40% grey, -2%/+2%/+4% black (PLUGE-like) steps and an explicit note that the pattern is not for black level setting. No SDR bar standard (e.g. SMPTE RP 219, ITU-R BT.801) was fetched, so the SDR 75% code values here are the worker's arithmetic from BT.709 s3.4.

Vendor manuals expose 75% vs 100% as a setting that must match the bar signal being fed (Tektronix WFM5200 and 1740A, Blackmagic SmartScope): the vectorscope graticule targets are drawn for one or the other. ITU-R BT.2111-3 (HDR bars) tabulates the codes: 100% bars use 940/64 and 75% bars use 721/64 at 10-bit (2884 at 12-bit), with a 40% grey, -2%/+2%/+4% black (PLUGE-like) steps and an explicit note that the pattern is not for black level setting. No SDR bar standard (e.g. SMPTE RP 219, ITU-R BT.801) was fetched, so the SDR 75% code values here are the worker's arithmetic from BT.709 s3.4. Curator qualifications: Excerpted evidence located (one unexcerpted row); 75%/100% bars and code values. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://download.tek.com/manual/WFM5200-waveform-monitor-user.pdf",
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      "url": "https://download.tek.com/manual/070847006_0.pdf",
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      "url": "https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/UserManuals/SmartViewSmartScopeManual.pdf",
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      "url": "https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bt/R-REC-BT.2111-3-202505-I!!PDF-E.pdf",
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  • [sourced_fact] Vendor manuals expose 75% vs 100% as a setting that must match the bar signal being fed (Tektronix WFM5200 and 1740A, Blackmagic SmartScope): the vectorscope graticule targets are drawn for one or the other. ITU-R BT.2111-3 (HDR bars) tabulates the codes: 100% bars use 940/64 and 75% bars use 721/64 at 10-bit (2884 at 12-bit), with a 40% grey, -2%/+2%/+4% black (PLUGE-like) steps and an explicit note that the pattern is not for black level setting. No SDR bar standard (e.g. SMPTE RP 219, ITU-R BT.801) was fetched, so the SDR 75% code values here are the worker's arithmetic from BT.709 s3.4. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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