Calibrating Your Hdmi Monitor For Video; Overview; Loading And Displaying Color Bars - Matrox MXO2 Installation And User Manual

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Overview

Matrox MXO2 turns your HDMI monitor into a true-color video display for use
with NTSC, PAL, and HD video. Controls for hue, chroma, contrast, brightness,
and blue-only let you adjust and control your HDMI monitor exactly as you
would a broadcast HD/SD video monitor.
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monitoring of NTSC, PAL, 1280×720, and 1920 ×1080 video. However, your
HDMI monitor must support 1920×1080 to preview all HD formats, and
"dot-by-dot" mode for 1:1 pixel mapping
HDMI monitor calibration requires you to:
Load and output NTSC, PAL, or HD color bars to your HDMI monitor.
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Calibrate your HDMI monitor using MXO2's proc amp controls.
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Loading and displaying color bars

Color bars are used to calibrate your HDMI monitor. Depending on the
application that you use to output the color bars to your HDMI monitor, you can
use either the Matrox MXO2 HD and SD color bars, or those supplied by a
third-party application, such as Final Cut Pro.
Ensure that your HDMI monitor is connected to the HDMI output on your
1
MXO2 (see
to warm up for about 20 or 30 minutes.
2 From an MXO2-supported QuickTime video application, such as Final Cut
Pro or After Effects, depending on the video standard for which you want to
calibrate your HDMI monitor, load and play back an NTSC, PAL, or HD
color bars clip. You can choose one of the Matrox MXO2 calibration color
bars found in Applications > Matrox MXO2 Utilities > Calibration
Files
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project and then make sure that the selected color bars clip matches your
project's sequence setting. For more details, see
MXO2 Easy
Set your application's video output device setting to output to MXO2 (see
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"Specifying your video and audio output device settings"
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format. For Final Cut Pro, select the MXO2 video playback setting that
matches your project's sequence setting.
With the color bars clip visible on your HDMI monitor, pause the color bars
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clip in your application.
Calibrate your HDMI monitor as detailed in the next section.
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Chapter 5, Calibrating Your HDMI Monitor for Video
MXO2's HDMI output supports 1:1 pixel mapping for accurate
"Outputs" on page 17), turn the HDMI monitor on, and allow it
, or one of the color bars supplied by the application.
For Final Cut Pro, you must select an MXO2 Easy Setup for your
Setup."
In your application, select the output setting that matches your clip's
.
Chapter 6, "Loading a Matrox
on page 42).