4. OPERATION continued …

Chroma Bug Filter

An encode/decode error inherent with DVD appears as horizontal streaks over areas that are rich in color, especially red areas in cartoons and computer animation. Turn correction ‘On’ if you see such an artifact, but don’t spend any energy looking for it – your DVD player, depending on model, may already be fixing it.

Video ADC

S-Video and component video signals containing anomalies may need adjustment before being converted to digital. Video Input Gain (default: Auto) changes the white level – adjust if bright areas are too bright. Video Input Offset (default: 50) changes the black level – adjust if dark areas are too dark. Sampling Phase adjustment (default: 15) is useful when video comes from a video DAC (e.g. computer video card) and contains ringing edges due to improper filtering – adjust for minimal “ghost” imaging while using a static black and white picture with lots of detail and sharp edges.

The Crop Input menu is where the ‘frame’ for the image is controlled. If there’s anything that you want to get rid of at the outer edges of the picture, this is the best place to do it, i.e. before further processing.

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CROP INPUT

 

SCALE OUT

 

OUTPUT

 

PATTERNS

 

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HDMI Auto Detect

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Custom Setting

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edges Off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edges On

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y/C Delay / H Offset



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HDMI Auto Detect

Operates according to a flag in HDMI data. Although the AVM 50 recognizes this flag at the input, and also sends it to displays via the output, your source or display may not – set manually if necessary.

16:9 and 4:3

Make the selection that displays the picture correctly. If the source is standard-definition DVD, normally you would set cropping to 4:3 when the DVD is anamorphic and 16:9 when letterboxed or when an anamorphic projection lens is used for viewing ‘Scope’ movies (more info on aspect ratios on next page).

Custom Setting

If the above aren’t suitable, adjust Horizontal Size, Vertical Size, Horizontal Position, and Vertical Position. Since position can be adjusted, this can be the right option for sources with substantially off-center images.

Edges

This selection is independent of the preceding ones. When ‘On’ is selected, the outer edges of the input are removed. Use if you see any non-picture ‘garbage’ along the outer edges. Number of pixels removed from each edge is adjustable from 0 to 20.

Y/C Delay and Horizontal Offset

Adjust if image is not centered, or if YCbCr source needs Y/C delay adjustment. See also Sync in section 3.8.

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