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 HD and SD 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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HD and SD 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 color bars to your HDMI monitor.
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Calibrate your HDMI monitor using the provided proc amp controls.
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Loading and displaying color bars

Color bars are used to calibrate your HDMI monitor. These instructions describe
how to load Matrox HD and SD color bars using the Matrox HDMI Monitor
Calibration program. However, you can also load and output color bars using
Adobe Premiere Pro or any program that is supported by the Matrox WYSIWYG
plug-ins. For details on the supported programs and configuring your Matrox
WYSIWYG output settings, see
Plug-ins."
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 Right-click the
HDMI Monitor Calibration
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Matrox Mtx.utils > Matrox WYSIWYG Control Panel
the program directly from the Start menu by choosing Start > All Programs
> Matrox Mtx.utils > Matrox HDMI Monitor Calibration
Chapter 7, Calibrating Your HDMI Monitor for Video
The HDMI output supports 1:1 pixel mapping for accurate monitoring of
"Outputs" on page 165), turn the HDMI monitor on, and allow it
icon on your Windows taskbar, and choose Matrox
If you don't see the
Chapter 10, "Using the Matrox WYSIWYG
.
icon, choose Start > All Programs >
.
. You can also start
.