The waveform and vectorscope commands, found in the Source menu, configure the monitor to graphically display color information about your sequence. Avid Color Correction displays the information for the currently active monitor.

A waveform indicates the brightness of the image. The higher the green trace goes on the scale, the brighter that part of the image is.

Waveform monitors display all the information for the current field or frame overlaid in the waveform. That is, each left-to-right trace in the waveform represents one scan line. If you see a bright object on the left side of the image, you will see its peak on the left side of the waveform. A bright object in the top left of the image produces the same waveform if it is in the bottom left of the image.