Overview, Configuring the matrox wysiwyg control panel, Configuring the matrox wysiwyg – Matrox MXO2 PCIe Host Adapter User Manual

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Chapter 13, Using the Matrox WYSIWYG Plug-ins

Overview

Together with your Matrox MXO2 hardware, the Matrox WYSIWYG Control
Panel and Matrox WYSIWYG plug-ins let you display the contents of your
composition or animation on your video monitor. This lets you see the exact
color temperature, safe-title area, and any interlaced artifacts as you work.

You can preview video played back using the following applications that are
supported by the Matrox WYSIWYG plug-ins:

• Adobe After Effects.

• Adobe Photoshop.

• Autodesk 3ds Max.

• Autodesk Combustion.

• eyeon Fusion.

• NewTek LightWave 3D.

Configuring the Matrox WYSIWYG Control
Panel

The Matrox WYSIWYG Control Panel lets you specify the settings you want for
previewing video on your video monitor. To use the Matrox WYSIWYG Control
Panel, right-click the

icon on your Windows taskbar. If you don’t see the

icon, check your taskbar properties and make sure that you’re showing the icons
for your Matrox applications. If you still don’t see the icon, choose

Start > All

Programs > Matrox Mtx.utils > Matrox WYSIWYG Control Panel

.

The Matrox HDMI Calibration Utility uses the Matrox WYSIWYG Control
Panel to display specially designed graphics for calibrating your HDMI monitor
for video. For details on calibrating your HDMI monitor, see

Chapter 7,

“Calibrating Your HDMI Monitor for Video

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Note

By default, the Matrox WYSIWYG output to your video monitor is

enabled. To disable it, clear the

Enable WYSIWYG

Output

option in the

Control Panel.

1

From the

Project Format

menu,

select the

format that matches your

composition or animation, such as

NTSC 4:3

.

2

Choose

Output Configuration

to specify the video output settings you

want for previewing your video. The available settings depend on your
selected project format (editing video format), and are the same as those
provided when using Matrox A/V Tools as explained in

“Specifying your

video output settings”

on page

180

and

“Specifying your video output

settings (MXO2 Mini)”

on page

184

.

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