Matrox Electronic Systems rt.x2 manual

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Realtime RGB curves control — RGB curves control offers a fast, natural way to fine-tune the colors in your video. If, for example, you want to remove a blue tint from your video, you simply drag the blue curve down. With RGB curves you can also achieve wild color effects and other looks that are otherwise impossible.

·Realtime secondary color correction — The secondary color corrector is an advanced tool used for fine-tuning or dramatic effects creation. It offers all the controls found in the primary color correction filter with the added capability of limiting the effect to a specific range of pixels. Pixel selection can be done using color and/or brightness. Using the simple garbage matte tool, you can also limit the effect to a specific region. The pixel selection can also be inverted.

The secondary color corrector lets you achieve effects such as color pass and color replace. It can be used, for example, to change the color of a dress, deepen the background sky color, or to achieve an effect similar to the film Schindler’s List where only one object or person remains in color while the rest of the image becomes black and white.

·Realtime chroma and luma keying — The Matrox RT.X2 platforms provide one of the finest realtime chroma keyers in the industry. Clean blue- and green-screen keys are easy to achieve, even with DV and HDV material shot in less than optimal lighting conditions. Your video is upsampled to 4:4:4:4 resolution and advanced noise reduction algorithms are used to ensure superior results. The auto key button intelligently adjusts the key with soft edges, spill removal, and shadow preservation. If needed, you can further refine the key with manual controls. You can key on any color, not just blue and green. You can also invert the selection and display the matte being generated to fine tune the key.

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Contents Product Guide / Release 3.5 / April Table of contents Page Overview Key features of Matrox RT.X2 and Matrox RT.X2 LE Key features of Matrox RT.X2 SDScalable system design Realtime multi-layer workflows Extensive camera supportHighest quality realtime effects Most realtime video/graphics layersCapture in HD, edit in SD for maximum realtime performance Realtime editing using progressive formats Realtime Matrox Flex CPU effects Reference Match Corrected Page Page Page Realtime Matrox Flex GPU effects Page Page Page Page Page Productivity features Panasonic VariCam 720p support does not apply to RT.X2 SDWysiwyg for compositing and graphics applications Voiceover recording in the timelineVU meters on capture Video preview on captureDevice control Realtime mixed-format multi-camFlexible AVI and WAV file formats Efficient management of AVI and MXF filesMatrox EZ-MXF utility does not apply to RT.X2 SD Matrox EZ-HDV utility Support for 32-bit AVI with alphaProject compatibility with Matrox Axio Matrox product selection table SDI Smpte 259M