Notes On Operation With A Vga Monitor - MacroSystem Digital Video Claro Supplementary Manual

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film.
You can read up on other aspects of operation,
such as tips on creating attractive DVD
background menus, in the separate DVD
Arabesk 2 manual (2
Note: You cannot use the Casablanca Claro to
play an inserted DVD or a film created using
DVD Arabesk. You can therefore ignore the
playback functions described in Chapter 3.2 of
the DVD Arabesk manual.
8. Notes on operation with a VGA
monitor
Dual monitor mode is not possible with the
Casablanca Claro.
You can therefore use either a television or VGA
monitor but not both at the same time.
A few limitations apply when running the
system with a VGA monitor but these are not
relevant to the final results of the film. In the
following we would like to give you a few tips on
how to work with VGA mode.
• Since the screen refresh rate of a VGA monitor
is not the same as a television's refresh rate (50
Hz), the video footage will appear jerky when
played – though this of course has no effect on
the video output via the DV interface. If your
VGA monitor supports a frequency of 75 Hz, we
recommend you use a VGA resolution of 2 or
4 for PAL in order to minimize picture jerkiness
during playback. For NTSC, we recommend you
use the 60 Hz modes, VGA 1 or VGA 3.
• Compared to video mode, VGA mode handles
complete pictures (non-interlaced). This results
in a comb effect appearing on moving objects
(e.g. camera sweeps or cars driving by) so that
the edges no longer look sharp (fringed). This
limitation is of course only of relevance when
displaying footage on a VGA monitor and is not
included in the actual video itself.
• The color saturation and contrast properties of
the picture displayed on a VGA monitor are very
weak but they are displayed correctly in "Video"
mode (television). Therefore, please avoid
increasing the saturation or contrast since this
could lead to color bleed or distortion that is not
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visible on the VGA monitor.
The picture sharpness is also displayed
differently in VGA mode than it appears in the
final video. After you finish editing the video, we
recommend you check the saturation, contrast
and picture sharpness of the footage on a
television in video mode.
• The entire video picture including the overscan
area is displayed when working with various
menus in VGA mode (e.g. when playing,
trimming or splitting a video). This area
sometimes contains image distortion that is no
longer visible when the video is later exported
or viewed on the television. When you are
positioning titles, we therefore recommend you
do not place them too far into the area around
the edges of the picture or else the letters
will no longer be visible later on. In any case,
please make sure you carry out a final check by
watching the video footage on a television.