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Environment Variables (Registry Values)
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4. Select the DWORD Value option to create and define a new registry value of type
DWORD in the Registry Editor.
5. Type the name of the new value: PIColor.
6. Press Enter.
7. To set the Value data option:
a. Right-click on the PIColor value.
b. Select Modify.
The Edit DWORD Value dialog box appears.
c. Set the Value data using the following hexadecimal format:
0x00RRGGBB where RR,
GG, BB are two bytes for each color.
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The leftmost two bytes (00) are not used. Also, If the PIColor has its value set to zero (0), the
closed captioning text is black because zero corresponds to the color Black.
d. Click OK to save the setting and close the dialog box.
8. Close the Registry Editor window.
RGB Hexadecimal Color Chart
Avid’s PIColor and CCColor environment variables require RGB Hexadecimal Color codes.
Complete RGB Hexadecimal Color Charts, with various color shades, can be found on the
Internet, but the following table contains some basic colors, along with their corresponding
hexidecimal code values:
Color Hex Default
Black 000000
Blue 0000FF