Calibrating Your Hdmi Monitor - Matrox MXO2 Installation And User Manual

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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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 HD and SD
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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5 Under Miscellaneous , click Calibrate .
For each of the Hue , Chroma , Contrast , and Brightness controls, click the
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button, and ensure that the Blue only option is cleared.
Reset
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.
Before settings the black level, make sure that Allow super black is
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selected in your general settings (see
page 37). Set the proper black level by adjusting the Brightness control and
looking at the three pluge bars (see
pluge bars should be black and blend into one another, with no visible
or Matrox MXO2 Mini icon.
Figure 1
"Specifying your general settings"
on page 59). The middle and left
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