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Chapter 10, 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 ( ).
¦NoteThe 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 audio output
settings” on page 154.
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 “Specifying your
video output settings (MXO2 Mini)” on page 148.
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” on page 305.