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Chapter 7, Calibrating Your HDMI Monitor for Video
Loading Matrox HDMI calibration settings
After calibrating your HDMI monitor and saving your calibration settings to a
file (see “Calibrating your HDMI monitor” on page 48), the calibration settings
are automatically loaded as the current HDMI calibration settings for your
system. You can, however, load another HDMI calibration settings file at any
time, but only one calibration settings file can be loaded for your system at any
given time. Once loaded, you can enable or disable the calibration settings (see
“Enabling and disabling the Matrox HDMI calibration settings” on page 50).
¦NoteIf your system has multiple users, the loaded calibration settings apply to
the logged on user only.
1 Right-click the icon on your Windows taskbar, choose Output
Configuration
and on the Video Output page, set the HDMI output to
RGB - calibrated.
2 Click OK to save your video output settings.
3 Right-click the icon on your Windows taskbar, and choose Matrox
HDMI Calibration Utility
.
4 From the Welcome page, click Load Settings.
5 When prompted, select your desired .mtx calibration settings file, and then
click
Open.
Enabling and disabling the Matrox HDMI
calibration settings
The HDMI calibration settings that are loaded for your system (see “Loading
Matrox HDMI calibration settings” on page 50) can be enabled or disabled.
When using a program that supports Matrox MXO2 video output, you can
configure the Matrox video output settings for that program to enable or disable
the loaded HDMI calibration settings. For example, you can configure the MXO2
video output settings that you want to use with Matrox A/V Tools as explained in
“Specifying your video output settings” on page 174 and “Specifying your video
output settings (MXO2 Mini)” on page 178.
When you set the HDMI video output to
RGB - calibrated, the video that is
output from the MXO2 HDMI output will have the color settings that are saved in
the currently loaded calibration file. This is used when you want to monitor video
on your RGB HDMI monitor.
To disable the loaded calibration settings and output HDMI video from MXO2
with its native color settings, set the HDMI video output to
YUV or RGB -
native
, depending on the HDMI device you connected to the MXO2 HDMI
output. For example, you can set the HDMI video output to
RGB - native when