If you're a professional video editor concerned about getting the most from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Adobe Production CS3, you need Matrox RT X2. It's ideal for corporate communicators, event videographers, project studios, educational facilities and digital filmmakers. Designed primarily for realtime native HDV and DV editing, Matrox RTX2 also provides a high-quality MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame codec so you can capture other HD and SD formats using RT.X2's analog inputs and mix all types of footage on the timeline in real time. No matter what your desired workflow, Matrox RT.X2 delivers maximum realtime productivity. No other platform gives you so many ways to get the job done in record time.

Key Features

• Realtime, mixed-format, multi-layer workflows that combine HD and SD material from analog and digital sources
• Realtime Matrox Flex CPU effects — color correction, speed changes, chroma/luma keying and many more
• Realtime and accelerated Matrox Flex GPU effects — 2D/3D DVE, blur/glow/soft focus, shine and many more
• Extensive camera support including many new models from Canon, JVC, Panasonic, and Sony
• Native HDV 1080i, HDV 1080p, HDV 720p (JVC ProHD), Panasonic P2 MXF 720p, and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame HD editing
• Native DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, Panasonic P2 MXF SD, and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame SD editing
• Realtime playback of 32-bit MPEG-2 I-frame AVI files with alpha in HD and SD
• Realtime mixed-format multi-cam
• Realtime high-quality hardware downscaling for SD output from an HD timeline
• Accelerated export to DVD, multimedia formats including Flash Video, and Adobe Clip Notes
• WYSIWYG for Adobe After Effects, Bridge, and Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, NewTek LightWave 3D, and Windows Media Player with dynamic Alt+Tab switching
• Composite, Y/C, HD/SD analog component input and output
• Full-resolution HD monitoring on an inexpensive flat panel display via independent DVI output

Should you choose to upgrade to Adobe Production CS3, you’ll be happy to know that Matrox RT.X2 lets you work seamlessly with the other Adobe applications, fully supporting Adobe Dynamic Link and providing WYSIWYG video output support for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, as well as other industry-leading animation and compositing packages.

Matrox RT.X2 is based on the award-winning Matrox Axio architecture that incorporates Matrox Power of X and Flex technologies to leverage CPU and GPU power. You get a high-performance, future-proof HDV and SD editing environment while joining the ranks of well over 200,000 users worldwide who currently enjoy the amazing value, stable reliability, and superior productivity of Matrox-based realtime nonlinear editing systems.

Specifications:

General
Full-length PCIe 1x card
FCC Class B, CE Mark Class B

Video features
Inputs and outputs
1394 pass-through
composite
Y/C
SD/HD analog component
Independent DVI-D output for full-resolution HD monitoring

Video standards
SD
ITU-R 601
525i at 29.97 (NTSC)
625i at 25 (PAL)
486p at 23.98

HD
1920 x 1080i at 29.97 fps
1920 x 1080i at 25 fps

Internal video processing
8-bit 4:2:2:4
720 x 486
720 x 576
1440 x 1080

Realtime video codecs
Capture
HDV 1080i via 1394
HDV 1080p
HDV 720p
P2 MXF 720p and SD
DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO
MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame SD from 10 to 25 Mbps
MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame HD from 50 to 100 Mbps

Playback
HDV 1080i
HDV 1080p
HDV 720p
P2 MXF 720p and SD
DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO
RT.X100 legacy format
Matrox Axio offline clips
MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame SD from 10 to 25 Mbps
MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame HD from 50 to 100 Mbps

Export
HDV 1080i print-to-tape
HDV 1080i via 1394
HDV 1080p
HDV 720p
P2 MXF 720p and SD
DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO
MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame SD from 10 to 25 Mbps
MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame HD from 50 to 100 Mbps

Audio features
16 bit, 48 kHz
Analog audio I/O dependent on system audio
Stereo monitoring