Calibrating Your Hdmi Monitor - Matrox MXO2 Installation And User Manual

Calibrating your HDMI monitor

Use the MXO2 proc amp controls to adjust and control your HDMI monitor's
color temperatures for accurate color grading and monitoring of NTSC, PAL, and
HD video.
Load and output color bars to your HDMI monitor as detailed in the previous
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section.
From the Apple menu, click System Preferences , and then click the
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Matrox MXO2
Click Video Output .
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From the Set main channel format to menu, select Follow application .
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Under Miscellaneous , click Calibrate .
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For each of the Hue , Chroma , Contrast , and Brightness controls, click the
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Reset button, and ensure that the Blue only option is cleared.
Drag the Chroma slider all the way to the left so that the color bars are
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shades of black and white.
Set the proper black level by adjusting the Brightness control and looking at
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the three pluge bars (see
bars should be black and blend into one another, with no visible dividing line
icon.
Figure 1 on page 37). The middle and left pluge
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