User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

When there is no onboard video board (standard-PC) the video input section no longer

shows the Alpha options for Live and Clip. Video input for standard-PC versions enable

clip playback through the Properties Panel.

5.26 Video Output

Video Output (Matrox Card)

This section is used to configure special settings for video output such as SPG settings

and so on.

• Show Video Output Config. Editor: Opens the Video Output Editor , or press (Alt

+V).

• Use NVIDIA SDI output/capture card(s): Enables your NVIDIA card’s SDI module

to output video. This will shorten the output delay when outputting graphics

and video through the video board. However, this requires audio to be handled

externally since NVIDIA’s SDI module does not support embedded audio output.

• Video wall/Multi-display: Sets the main output to the Digital Visual Interface ( DVI

). Viz Artist will render to fullscreen (set the resolution in Render Options section).

• Allow Super Black (NVIDIA SDI card only): Controls the key output:

• Inactive: Use the video range (only valid in conjunction with NVIDIA SDI and

driver versions older than 259.12).

• Active: Use the full signal range. When active it will determine to clip or not to

clip the key output video signal that is under 7.5 IRE units or over 100 IRE units.

• Readback Async: (DVS board only) Output only, see Video Board, ‘Use GPU

Direct’.

• Render preview default setting: Sets the default value for the Preview button

(see Control Buttons ) when Viz Engine is in On Air mode.

• Inactive: Rendering will only be done for video out signals. This will increase

performance as the renderer does not have to render into an editor on-screen

and into pixel buffer.

• Active: Rendering will be done for both video out signals and on-screen (this will

decrease the performance).

• Fullscreen: Set the On Air window to screen size.

Note: Machines without a video board do not have the Video Output section.