Creating a new project on matrox mxo2, Defining your playback settings, Specifying your video output settings – Matrox MXO2 PCIe Host Adapter User Manual
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Chapter 11, Using Matrox MXO2 with Avid Editing Applications
Creating a new project on Matrox MXO2
You can create a new project for editing on Matrox MXO2 as explained in your
Avid documentation, with the following exceptions:
• Avid supports only standard raster dimensions for projects created on
Matrox MXO2 hardware. This means that when you create an HD project on
MXO2, the raster dimension will be set to 1280× 720 for a 720p project, or
1920 ×1080 for a 1080i/p project. You can, however, still import, export, and
play back thin raster material in your HD project.
• Matrox MXO2 supports YCbCr video only. If you set your project’s color
space to RGB, your Avid editing application will convert your material to
YCbCr for output on Matrox MXO2. To capture video using your Matrox
MXO2 hardware, your project’s color space must be set to YCbCr.
Defining your playback settings
The
Matrox Playback Settings
dialog box provides settings that you can use to
configure your video and audio outputs on Matrox MXO2 for playing back
material in Avid editing applications. You can open the
Matrox Playback
Settings
dialog box using any of the following methods:
• Choose
Tools > Hardware Setup
.
• Click the
Settings
tab in the
Project
window, and then double-click
Video
Output
(this is the method explained in the step-by-step instructions).
• Click the
Hardware
tab in the
Audio Project Settings
dialog box, and
then click the Hardware Setup button (
).
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Note
The Monitor Volume button (
) in the
Timeline
window can be used
as a shortcut to open the
Matrox Playback Settings
dialog box, and therefore
does not work as described in your Avid documentation. For details on how to
adjust various audio output settings on MXO2, see
Specifying your video output settings
This section explains how to specify your video output settings for Matrox
MXO2, MXO2 Rack, and MXO2 LE. For MXO2 Mini, see
video output settings (MXO2 Mini)”
You can specify various settings to configure the main and secondary outputs
from your MXO2 system. Some of the settings are predetermined for you based
on your project’s video format. For a list of the supported video output formats,
see
“Playback using Avid editing applications”
.