Newb questions

I mainly use Vegas Pro and the use the scopes and histogram features quite a bit when setting brightness and contrast, does Fusion have anything similar?

SubV button in a viewer. (V hotkey)

Of course.

On the left side under your view window there is a SubView button. With this you can turn on the following:

WAVEFORM
VECTORSCOPE
HISTOGRAM
COLOR INSPECTOR
IMAGE INFO
MAGNIFIER
METADATA

among other things.

yes, it does. in each viewer you can enable a "subviewer". this can be set to vectorscope, waveform, histogram, 3d histogram. if the little window isnt showing enough info for you you can switch it big via "shift+v"

Thanks all.

You can also adjust the sampling by right clicking in the SubV image, as well as swapping image viewer with sub-viewer at anytime