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Trademarks • Marques déposées • Warenzeichen • Marchi registrati • Marcas registradas Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. ....................................... Matrox®, RT.X100 Xtreme™, RT.X100 Xtreme Pro™, X.tools™, XtremePreview™ Adobe Systems Inc. ........................................................ Adobe®, Encore DVD®, Photoshop®, Premiere®, Premiere Pro® Canon Inc........................................................................ Canon® Microsoft Corporation.......................................
Contents Chapter 1 Using this Supplement About this guide ...............................................................................2 Style conventions of this manual .....................................................2 Chapter 2 Defining Your Adobe Premiere Pro Settings Using Adobe Premiere Pro with Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro .........6 A note about running other programs with Adobe Premiere Pro ....6 Loading project presets...................................................................
ii About Adobe Premiere Pro’s fixed effects.................................... 32 Applying a Motion effect......................................................................32 Applying an Alpha Adjust effect ...........................................................32 Overview of the color match effect ............................................... 34 Creating a color match effect ....................................................... 35 Overview of the color maps.....................................
iii Chapter 4 Using Matrox WYSIWYG Programs About the Adobe Photoshop plug-in ..............................................58 How to use the plug-in ........................................................................58 Using Photoshop actions with the plug-in............................................59 About the WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel ............................60 Configuring the WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel ................... 61 Index ..............................................
iv Your notes Contents
Chapter 1 Using this Supplement This chapter outlines the contents of this manual, and describes the available RT.X documentation.
2 About this guide This document supplements information contained in the Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Installation and User Guide (May 1, 2003). The Installation and User Guide contains important and useful information on installing and using your RT.X system, and should be considered as your primary source of documentation for your RT.X100 Xtreme Pro. This User Guide Supplement contains updated information about using new features available with Matrox X.tools for use with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.
3 Other documentation In addition to this User Guide Supplement, the following RT.X documents are available. Quick Start Guide Your Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro Quick Start Guide gives you a brief introduction to your new Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro, and shows you how to quickly set up some realtime Matrox RT.X effects in a new Adobe Premiere Pro project. Installation and User Guide Your Matrox RT.
4 Your notes Chapter 1, Using this Supplement
Chapter 2 Defining Your Adobe Premiere Pro Settings This chapter explains how to define various settings for using your Matrox RT.X with Adobe Premiere Pro. This includes specifying your project and export settings.
6 Using Adobe Premiere Pro with Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro All Adobe Premiere procedures and dialog boxes in your Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Installation and User Guide (May 1, 2003) are for Adobe Premiere 6.5. Many operations in Adobe Premiere Pro are similar to those described in your documentation, but there are a few changes you need to be aware of. The following sections provide important information about using RT.X100 Xtreme Pro with Adobe Premiere Pro.
7 Setting up your scratch disks When specifying the location of your scratch disks in Adobe Premiere Pro, make sure you follow the recommendations in your Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide. For example, store your video and audio files on an A/V drive used exclusively for that purpose. ° To specify your scratch disks: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks. 2 Under Scratch Disks, select an appropriate A/V drive letter for each scratch disk type. 3 Click OK to save your preferences.
8 3 Under Error Reporting, select Report dropped frames if you want to be warned each time frames are dropped when you play back video from the Timeline. Otherwise, clear this option. Remarks $ Once playback of the Timeline has stopped, a red bar will appear over segments of the Timeline that have dropped frames (even if you don’t select Report dropped frames). To perform a Matrox realtime export to disk or export to DV tape, you must first render the segments identified by the red bar.
9 7.5 IRE, whereas your DV camera’s analog output uses the Japanese setup level of 0 IRE. ° To change the setup level of your analog NTSC video on Matrox RT.X: 1 Choose Project > Project Settings > General. 2 Click the Playback Settings button. 3 Under Analog Setup (NTSC) on the General page, select one of the following setup levels. This affects both the analog video input and output. $ 0 IRE (DV-compliant) Applies a setup level of 0 IRE.
10 Selecting your codec options for rendering On the Codec (Rendering) page of the Matrox Advanced Settings dialog box, you can choose whether or not you want Matrox RT.X to show your render results in Premiere Pro’s Monitor window, as well as select your color space conversion options. When you render material in your Adobe Premiere Pro project on Matrox RT.
11 $ Select this option to help eliminate artifacts such as jagged edges and unwanted lines at the edges of fast-motion video (for PAL video only). Chroma sampling for fast-motion video ¡ Important When rendering graphics and titles, make sure that Chroma sampling for fast-motion video is not selected, as this option can cause jagged edges to appear in your rendered images. 5 Click OK to return to the Project Settings dialog box. Selecting your DV-1394 settings On Matrox RT.
12 streams, the second audio stream will be saved to a separate audio file named clipID_2ndStream.wav. Remarks $ Some DV-1394 devices let you capture only one stereo audio stream. For more information, consult the documentation that came with your DV-1394 device. $ When capturing audio over the 1394 interface with certain DV devices (such as Sony or Canon), the left and right channels may be inverted in the resulting file.
13 Selecting your realtime effect settings You can specify default cropping settings for your realtime Matrox effects, select which Premiere Pro effects you’d like to play back in real time, and determine how you’d like to preview your effects on the Timeline. ° To select your realtime effect settings: 1 Choose Project > Project Settings > General. 2 Click the Playback Settings button, then click the Realtime Effects tab.
14 $ By default, this option is selected. Matrox provides realtime support of Premiere Pro’s Frame Hold to allow you to freeze on a clip’s In Point, Out Point, or at Marker 0. If you encounter repeated frames when playing back a Timeline containing nested sequences or clips with negative speed changes, you can clear this option. If you clear this option, however, all realtime Frame Hold effects applied to clips on the Timeline will be ignored.
15 Defining your Video Rendering and Audio settings When you select an RT.X project preset, your Video Rendering and Audio settings for editing on Matrox RT.X are automatically set for you. You can specify additional Video Rendering and Audio settings as explained in your Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide. ¡ Important For the best performance, use only 48 kHz, 16-bits/sample (stereo) audio in Adobe Premiere Pro. Defining your Capture settings Matrox RT.
16 5 To select the audio and video sources from which you want to capture material, click the A/V Inputs button. 6 From the Video Source list, select Composite, S-Video (Y/C), or DV-1394. For example, to capture your composite input to Matrox RT.X, select Composite. To capture material from your DV-1394 device over the 1394 interface, select DV-1394.
17 connection into the Line-In jack (or corresponding jack) on your sound card, choose Line-In from the Analog Audio Source list. Remarks $ All supported audio sources will appear in the Analog Audio Source list, but in most cases the recommended source will be the default. If your audio input connection does not appear in the list, you must unplug the TO AUDIO CARD IN connector on your breakout cable and connect it to an audio input on your sound card that appears in the list.
18 11 Click OK to return to the Project Settings dialog box. 12 To adjust the proc amp settings for the analog (S-Video or composite) video that you’ll be capturing, click the Proc Amps button. ¦ Note Once you’ve captured your video clips, you can apply proc amp changes and other color corrections to your clips on the Timeline using the Matrox color correction effect. For details, see “Applying a pre-created color correction” in your Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Installation and User Guide.
19 You can specify additional Capture settings as explained in your Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide. Performing a Premiere Pro export to disk You can export video from the Timeline to a single DV/DVCAM or DVCPRO .avi file for purposes such as distribution on CD-ROM and publishing on the web. Several software codecs are included with Adobe Premiere Pro so that you can export your video to different formats. Your Matrox RT.
20 For PAL material that uses the standard TV screen $ D1/DV PAL (1.067) format. $ D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.422) widescreen 16:9 format. For PAL material that uses the 6 If you’re exporting all or part of your Timeline, it’s recommended that you do not select Recompress. This retains the quality of your video.
21 ° To export your Timeline to disk in real time: 1 Create a preview of your Timeline by pressing ENTER. 2 Choose File > Export > Matrox Realtime Export to Disk. 3 From the Range list, select Work Area to export a selected area of the Timeline, or select Entire Timeline to export your entire Timeline. 4 From the Format list, select DV/DVCAM (.avi) to export to a DV/DVCAM .avi file, DVCPRO (.avi) to export to a DVCPRO .avi file, or MPEG-2 IBP (.m2v) to export to an MPEG-2 Elementary (.m2v) file.
22 exported video, you may need to export to an A/V drive that’s different from the one you use to store your project’s clips. 8 Click OK to begin the realtime export to disk. Exporting your Timeline to DV tape You can export DV material from your Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline to tape using device control over the 1394 interface on Matrox RT.X. ¦ Note On most systems, you’ll be able to perform a realtime export to tape.
23 Preferences dialog box as explained in your Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Installation and User Guide. ¦ Note If you’re using a camcorder, switch it to VTR Mode. 2 Load a tape that you’ve striped with time code into your device. 3 Open the project you want to export to tape. 4 Choose File > Export > Export to Tape. This displays the following dialog box: 5 Indicate which Channels you want to export by selecting Export video and/or Export audio.
24 ¦ Note You can enter values in the Duration fields only. The In Point fields are automatically adjusted for you based on the values you enter in the Duration fields. Items are recorded on your tape in the order they are listed in the dialog box. $ Color Bars To add color bars at the start of your recording, enter a duration for the amount of time you want the color bars to be recorded. ¦ Note Color bars are accompanied by a 1-kHz audio tone.
25 Defining your export to tape options In order to achieve a frame-accurate export to tape, you need to specify various export options. The values you enter for these options depend on the DV-1394 device you are using. ¦ Note Not all DV-1394 devices are frame-accurate. For more information, please see the RT.X Support section of our web site at www.matrox.com/video/support. ° To define your export options: 1 Choose File > Export > Export to Tape, then click the Options button.
26 device in the Preset box and click the Save button. Your settings will be saved in the Preset list for future use. 3 Under Offset Times for Recording, specify the appropriate values for your DV-1394 device. $ The first value delays the playback of your project to allow your DV-1394 device time to start recording. For example, some devices require a delay between the time they receive the record command and the time the project starts playing back from your computer.
27 that the effects you create on Matrox RT.X will be displayed with the correct proportions when viewed in 16:9 format. ¦ Note When editing in 16:9 format, certain pre-created Matrox organic wipe or mask patterns may appear distorted. For example, circular wipes will appear elongated. 3 Capture your video clips as you normally would. Select the 16:9 display option on your NTSC or PAL video monitor to “unsquish” the video and play it back in widescreen format without distortion.
28 Your notes Chapter 2, Defining Your Adobe Premiere Pro Settings
Chapter 3 Setting Up Realtime Effects with Adobe Premiere Pro This chapter explains how to set up realtime effects using the Matrox realtime plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro.
30 How to apply a Matrox video transition in Adobe Premiere Pro In Adobe Premiere Pro, all of the video transitions can be found in the Video Transitions bin. By default, the Matrox transitions are found in the Matrox folder. An easy way to create a Matrox transition is to drag the current-time indicator to the point where two clips meet, then drag the desired effect from the Video Transitions bin in the Effects window to the edit point between the two clips.
31 How to organize your Matrox video effects in custom bins To organize your Matrox video effects and transitions, you can create custom bins in the Effects window. For example, you can create a bin called Shape Effects to hold the Matrox cube, particle, and sphere effects. ° To create a new custom bin for your effects: 1 Click the New Custom Bin icon ( ). 2 Locate the new bin by scrolling down to the bottom of the Effects window, then double-click the name of the custom bin and type in a new name.
32 allow your RT.X100 Xtreme Pro to analyze these segments and drop frames systematically to smooth out your fast-motion effect. • The Frame Blend Speed Changes option is not supported for speed changes over 200%. About Adobe Premiere Pro’s fixed effects In Adobe Premiere Pro, every clip on the Timeline has pre-applied fixed effects. When you select the clip on the Timeline, your fixed effects appear in the Effect Controls window.
33 To set up your effect, click the small triangle to the left of your effect in the Effect Controls window. To ignore the alpha-key channel of a clip, select Ignore Alpha. ¦ Note The Opacity, Invert Alpha, and Mask Only options are not supported in real time. For more information about the Alpha Adjust effect, see your Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide.
34 Overview of the color match effect You can use the Matrox color match effect to match colors between two clips (such as skin tone, sky, etc.). The color match effect uses controls similar to the Matrox color correction effect, but it lets you select areas of a reference clip to match to your target clip. You can use color maps to affect the colors globally, or by specific tonal ranges (shadows, midtones, and highlights).
35 Creating a color match effect When you create a color match effect, the Custom Color Match page opens by default: By selecting Simple edit, all settings are applied for the duration of your clip. This means that you’ll have only one keyframe at the first frame of your clip. If you want to change settings at different frames of the clip, you’ll have to clear Simple edit.
36 Overview of the color maps The color maps let you adjust the balance of colors in your target clip. Depending on which color map you use, you can affect your clip globally, or only the shadows, midtones, or highlights: i Shadows Midtones Highlights i Reference clip color box Global Shows the selected color you want to match from your reference clip. Target clip color box Shows the selected target color that you want to match to the reference color.
37 $ Click and drag your mouse in the Preview Window over an area that best represents the tonal range that you want to adjust. A tracking rectangle representing the tonal range for your selected area appears, and the auto balance is performed immediately. Tracking rectangle ¦ Note You’ll see your selected color displayed in the target clip color box, and represented in the color map for the affected tonal range.
38 $ Click and drag your mouse in the Reference Window over the area that you want to select. A tracking rectangle representing the tonal range of your chosen area appears automatically. Tracking rectangle You’ll see your selected color displayed in the reference clip color box.
39 Fine-tuning your color match effect You can fine-tune your target clip using the following color correction controls: • Color maps These controls let you adjust the balance of colors in your target clip (see “Overview of the color maps” on page 36). Drag the crosshair within a color map toward a color you want to increase in your clip, or away from a color you want to decrease. You can also enter values in the text boxes below each color map.
40 $ Gamma Use this to adjust the midtones in your clip without affecting black or white. $ White Use the slider to define white in your clip. • Luma Output Levels These controls let you map the values under Luma Input Levels to any level of black and white. Use the black and white sliders to achieve results such as reducing contrast in your clip, or reversing the luminosity of your clip by setting black to a higher value than white.
41 Overview of the color pass effect You can use the Matrox realtime plug-in to apply a color pass effect to convert your clip to grayscale, with the exception of one specified color. This can be useful if you want to isolate a single color to make it prominent.
42 Creating a color pass effect When you create a color pass effect, the Custom Color Pass page opens by default: By selecting Simple edit, all settings are applied for the duration of your clip. This means that you’ll have only one keyframe at the first frame of your clip. If you want to change settings at different frames of the clip, you’ll have to clear Simple edit.
43 You can use the following controls to further refine your color pass effect: • Color Pass Controls ¥ Tip To see the color selector, you’ll need to change the View to Plot or Map. For more information on the different views, see “Viewing and selecting colors” on page 43. $ Hue Use this to rotate the color selector around the perimeter of the color spectrum so that you can select a different hue (color) to retain.
44 present in your image as a vertical line in the histogram. A longer line indicates a higher amount of pixels in your image of that line’s luminance value. When you adjust the color pass controls, you can see the visual representation of your changes in the Chroma Plot or Luma Plot: i i Luminance selector Saturation threshold Color selector indicator • Map This view consists of a cube that contains a color spectrum, located under Chroma Map, and a luminance spectrum, located under Luma Map.
45 Creating a color replace effect When you create a color replace effect, the Custom Color Replace page opens by default: By selecting Simple edit, all settings are applied for the duration of your clip. This means that you’ll have only one keyframe at the first frame of your clip. If you want to change settings at different frames of the clip, you’ll have to clear Simple edit.
46 ° To set up your color replace effect: 1 Click and drag in the Preview Window to select a rectangular area containing the color that you want to replace. The tracking rectangle stays visible until you let go of the mouse button. Tracking rectangle The values for the Old Color Selection controls are automatically adjusted to reflect your chosen color. 2 Use the following New Color Selection controls to select your new color: Use this to select the tint of your new color.
47 $ Use this to proportionally increase or decrease the region outside of your saturation range. This controls how closely the Saturation value specified must match the replaced color before a region is replaced with your new color. Saturation Threshold For example, after selecting your new color, you may find that some areas of the image have a color similar to the color you’re replacing. By adjusting the Saturation Threshold, you can eliminate this color from the replaceable area.
48 When you adjust the Old Color Selection controls, you can see the visual representation of your changes in the Chroma Map or Luma Map: i i Luminance selector Saturation threshold indicator Color selector Chapter 3, Setting Up Realtime Effects with Adobe Premiere Pro
49 Overview of the time code effect You can use the Matrox realtime plug-in to apply a time code effect to add a time code graphic to an individual clip or your entire Premiere Pro project. If you want to display consecutive time code in your project, you should apply the time code effect to a nested sequence. To do this: 1 Choose File > New > Sequence. 2 Give your new sequence a name and click OK. 3 Drag your original sequence from the Project window into the new sequence.
50 Creating a time code effect When you create a time code effect, the Custom Time Code page opens by default: By selecting Simple edit, all settings are applied for the duration of your clip. This means that you’ll have only one keyframe at the first frame of your clip. If you want to change settings at different frames of the clip, you’ll have to clear Simple edit. You can customize your effect using the following: • Position Sets the horizontal position of your time code graphic.
51 • Time Code Allows you to change the start time of the time code. By default, the initial time code is set to 00:00:00:00. To change the time code, doubleclick the Initial box to highlight the time code, then type your new time code. $ Initial $ Format If you're working on an NTSC system, you can choose to display either Drop frame or Non-drop frame time code. • Show time code in frames Choose this option if you want to display frame count instead of time code.
52 What is XtremePreview? XtremePreview lets you edit and preview numerous video and graphics layers without having to render. You can preview all sources (including multiple Matrox effects in any order) for the segment you are editing, even if the segment requires rendering (that is, there is a red bar above the time ruler on the Premiere Pro Timeline). In addition, with XtremePreview, many combinations of Matrox effects remain realtime.
53 • You may notice a small video and audio glitch when your Timeline starts or completes playing certain segments when using the render-play feature. • The render-play feature does not support shuttling or reverse playback of clips. • Previewing a clip in the Matrox Effect Setup dialog box always uses the Preview all effects XtremePreview mode. You can, however, manually preview only the current source for the effect you are editing by clicking the Solo Mode button.
54 General rule The general rule to follow to avoid the red indicator bar when setting up your realtime effects is that in any given segment, you can use up to two video clips (.avi files), and up to four single-frame graphics clips. Each clip in the segment can have a fade applied to it. A fade can be any one of the following: • Opacity changes applied to a clip, such as by adjusting the Opacity handles of a clip. • An Adobe Premiere Pro Cross Dissolve. • An alpha-keyed graphics clip.
55 Matrox Page Curls appears after Matrox Color Corrections. Therefore, the clip will remain realtime: If you want to use Premiere Pro’s nested sequence feature to combine RT.X effects, you must respect the following priority sequence when applying the effects: 1 Color correction effect(s). 2 Chroma key or luma key. 3 Matrox hardware-accelerated effect (such as a page curl, advanced DVE, or Premiere Pro realtime transition).
56 • Use a graphics roll, crawl, animation, or non-full screen graphics clip (only full-screen single-frame graphics are supported in real time). • Apply a Matrox chroma key, luma key, or color correction to a graphics clip. • Add a non-Matrox effect or transition, such as a non-realtime Adobe Premiere Pro video effect or transition. For details on selecting which Adobe Premiere Pro transitions you want to play back in real time, see “Selecting your realtime effect settings” on page 13.
Chapter 4 Using Matrox WYSIWYG Programs This chapter explains how to use the Adobe Photshop plug-in and the WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel.
58 About the Adobe Photoshop plug-in The Adobe Photoshop plug-in, together with your Matrox RT.X hardware, lets you display your current Adobe Photoshop image on your NTSC or PAL video monitor. This lets you see the exact color temperature, safe-title area, and any interlaced artifacts in your image as you work. Only image modes of Grayscale, RGB Color, CMYK Color, and Lab Color are supported in 8 bits/channel or 16 bits/channel.
59 ¡ Important If you make changes to your image, you’ll have to repeat steps 3 to 5 (or re-apply a Photoshop action) to update the image on your NTSC or PAL video monitor. Using Photoshop actions with the plug-in A series of tasks can be automated to create a Photoshop action. The various Matrox WYSIWYG plug-in options have been recorded as actions to simplify applying the settings you want.
60 About the WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel The WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel lets you display video played back using Windows Media Player, Adobe Encore DVD, and other supported DirectShow applications on your NTSC or PAL video monitor. This gives you a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) video display for checking how your clips appear on a TV or other interlaced monitor. The supported file types include: Matrox .avi and .m2v files, as well as Video CD and Super Video CD files (.mpg, .m1v, and .
61 Configuring the WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel 1 To open the WYSIWYG DirectShow Control Panel, click the icon on your Windows taskbar. ¦ Note If you do not see the icon, right-click the taskbar and choose Properties. Clear the Hide inactive icons option, and click OK. 2 By default, the Matrox WYSIWYG DirectShow output to your NTSC or PAL monitor is enabled. Some DirectShow applications, however, may not display the video properly.
62 4 By default, the Play associated audio (.wav) file option is selected. Some DirectShow programs, such as DVDit! SE, automatically play back associated audio files for video clips. Therefore, if you hear an echo when playing back video on your NTSC or PAL video monitor, you should disable playback of the associated audio file by clearing Play associated audio (.wav) file, and restart your DirectShow application for the change to take effect.
Index A Adaptive degradation definition 52 Adobe Encore DVD displaying project on video monitor 60 exporting sequence markers for use with 21 Adobe Photoshop plug-in about 58 displaying clips on video monitor 58 using Photoshop actions 59 Adobe Premiere Pro Alpha Adjust effect 32 applying a Motion effect 32 Capture settings 15 Export Frame settings 19 Export Movie settings 19 exporting sequence markers for Encore DVD 21 exporting Timeline to DV tape 22 exporting to disk in real time 20 fixed effects 32 Gene
64 DV-1394 device as source in Adobe Premiere Pro 16 settings in Adobe Premiere Pro 11 DVD authoring using sequence markers as chapter points with Encore DVD 21 E Editing aspect ratio creating production in 16:9 format 26 Encoding MPEG video using Matrox Realtime Export to Disk 21 Error reporting for dropped frames during video playback 8 Exporting Matrox clips in Adobe Premiere Pro 19 to DV tape using Adobe Premiere Pro 22 using Matrox Realtime Export to Disk 20 F Fixed effects applying in Premiere Pro 3
65 performing a realtime export to disk 20 realtime rules 53 selecting realtime Premiere Pro transitions 13 speed control method 31 time code effect creating 50 overview 49 Rendering using Adobe Premiere Pro selecting color space conversion options 10 when you’ll need to render 55 Render-play feature 52 Render-scrub feature 52 Reporting dropped frames during video playback 8 S Scratch disks specifying 7 Scrubbing types switching between 8 Sequence markers exporting for use with Encore DVD 21 Setup level se
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