Selecting your capture folder, Defining your playback settings – Matrox MXO2 PCIe Host Adapter User Manual

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Chapter 12, Using Matrox A/V Tools

Selecting your capture folder

You can select the folder where you want A/V Tools to store your captured clips
by typing the drive and folder name directly into the

Capture Folder

box, or by

using the

Browse

button.

To ensure the best capture and playback performance of your clips, save them on
one of your A/V drives.

A/V Tools will save your video and audio clips in a subfolder with the same
name as the

Tape ID

. For example, if you selected

D:\Matrox AV Tools

Capture

as your capture folder, all video and audio clips from tape “MyTape” will be
saved in

D:\Matrox AV Tools Capture\MyTape

.

Defining your playback settings

The

Matrox Playback Settings

dialog box has several pages that you can use to

specify various settings for working with A/V Tools. When you select your
editing video format in the

Options

dialog box, many settings are optimized for

you.

Specifying your general settings

To specify your general settings for playback in A/V Tools:

1

Click the

Options

button in the

Matrox

A/V Tools

dialog box.

2

Click the

Playback Settings

button. This displays the

Matrox Playback

Settings

dialog box.

¦

Note

You can also access the

Matrox Playback Settings

dialog box by

right-clicking the clip list and selecting

Playback Settings

.

3

Click the

General

tab.

4

Under

Scrubbing Mode

, select

Frame

,

1st Field

, or

2nd Field

to indicate

whether you want to display frames or only one field when you scrub your
clips in the clip list using the transport controls. For example, you may want
to scrub the first or second field to eliminate the flickering that can be seen in

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