User Manual

Calibrating for Video Output
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4. If you are using an HDMI-compliant Avid input/output device, click the HDMI Color Space
menu and select a color space (YCbCr or RGB), and then select either an SD or an HD
format from the HDMI Format menu.
Some monitors only support one SD HDMI format. See your monitor documentation for
more information.
5. (Option) Click the VBI menu (if available) and select Preserve to preserve 5 lines above
each field in NTSC or 8 lines above each field for PAL.
6. Display color bars for calibrating:
- If you edited digital bars and tone into the sequence, go to the head of the bars and tone
and click Play.
- You can use internal bars from the Video Output tool by clicking the Test Patterns menu
in the Options tab, and selecting either SMPTE_Bars, (SMPTE standard bars),
ColorBars (full-field bars at 75% level), or ColorBars_100 (full-field color bars at 100%
level).
Bars are displayed on the Client monitor, and the signal appears on the external
Waveform and Vectorscope monitors.
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The internal Waveform and Vectorscope monitors do not display output signals from the system.
7. Click the SD Cal tab or the HD Cal tab, depending on the project format.
8. Click the Output menu, and select the video signal for your output device:
- For SD, select either Component, Composite, or S Video.
- For HD, select HD Component YPbPr or HD Component RGB, depending on the
connection to your output device.
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The Video Output tool does not display basic calibration controls for Serial Digital, DV, or
HD-SDI. All basic levels remain in digital form and cannot be adjusted from within your Avid
editing application. For H-phase adjustment of a Serial Digital output signal, see “Calibrating
the System with Passthrough Signals” on page 998.
The Video Output tool displays the appropriate parameters for the selected video format, as
described in “Video Output Tool Settings” on page 1405.
9. Adjust luminance values based on the information in “Luminance Settings for Video
Output” on page 999.
10. Depending on your output type and input/output hardware, adjust the following sliders until
the angle and amplitude of the six color vectors fall within the target boxes on the
Vectorscope monitor. Not all sliders are available for some configurations.
- Hue and Sat sliders (composite or S-Video output)
- RY Gain and BY Gain sliders (component output)