Matrox MXO2 PCIe Host Adapter User Manual

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Defining your A/V Tools options

Specifying your genlock settings for playback

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Note

This section does not apply to Matrox MXO2 Mini.

You can select the source to which you want to genlock all devices connected to
your MXO2 system during playback, as well as adjust the timing settings for all
video outputs from MXO2.

For examples of how to connect an external sync source to your system, see

“Typical Matrox MXO2 connections”

on page

19

,

“Typical Matrox MXO2 Rack

connections”

on page

28

, and

“Typical Matrox MXO2 LE connections”

on

page

37

.

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To specify your genlock settings:

1

Click the

Options

button in the

Matrox A/V Tools

dialog box.

2

Click the

Playback Settings

button. This displays the

Playback Settings

dialog box.

3

Click the

Genlock

tab.

4

From the

Genlock Source

list, select one of the following:

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Internal

Genlock to MXO2’s internal reference signal. Select this

option only if you don’t have an external sync generator or other reliable
external video sync source.

$

Black Burst Broadcast Quality

Genlock to an external analog sync

source connected to the reference (REF) input on MXO2. This must be a
stable sync source, such as an external sync generator (bi-level black burst
for SD or tri-level sync for HD), or a source VTR that has a built-in TBC.

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SDI

,

Composite

,

Component

,

S-Video

, and

HDMI Input

Genlock

to your SDI, composite, component, S-Video, or HDMI video source
connected to the video input on MXO2.

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