The main components of the video waveform are the active video portion and the horizontal blanking portion. Certain video waveforms carry information during the horizontal blanking interval.

Figure Gl-8 and Figure Gl-9 diagram a typical red or blue signal, which carries no information during the horizontal blanking interval, and a typical Y or green-plus-sync signal, which carries a sync pulse.

Figure Gl-10 and Figure Gl-11 show the video waveform and its components for composite video in more detail. The figures show the composite video waveform with and without setup, respectively.

Figure Gl-10 shows a composite video signal with setup.