NewTek TriCaster 855 - Manual (Page 350)

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1. Having warmed the monitor up as described earlier, start by enabling the monochrome
switch, if your monitor is so equipped (otherwise, turn the Color or Saturation knob all
the way down).
2. Set the monitor’s Contrast knob to its center detent.
3. Play with the Brightness knob until you can clearly discern the bars for all three black
levels in the PLUGE.
4. Gently turn Brightness down until the 3.5 IRE and 7.5 IRE bars merge, becoming
indistinguishable from one another.
5. You should be able to just notice the difference between the 7.5 IRE bars and the
brighter 10.5 IRE bar.
6. Raise the Contrast level, brightening the 10.5 IRE bar quite a bit. You may notice that
the large white bar second from the left at the bottom (Super White) becomes
overblown, showing blooming into its neighboring color bars.
7. Dial Contrast back down until the Super White bar is just white, not blazingly so, and
does not bleed into the other bars. The 10.5 IRE bar in the PLUGE should be just distinct
from the 7.5 IRE bars again at this point.
PAL
1. Warm up the monitor as previously mentioned.
2. Set the monitor’s Color (or Saturation), Contrast and Brightness to their lowest settings.
3. Slowly raise Brightness until the black bar just begins to lighten.
4. Adjust the Contrast until the bars seem to be evenly graduated (ignore the white bar).