Extensive Application Support

Extensive application support

The Matrox MXO2 products amplify your productivity with editing, content creation, and H.264 encoding/authoring applications on the PC.

Editing applications

You benefit from the full range of Matrox MXO2 features with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Matrox MXO2 Mini provides a cost-effective HD monitoring solution for Avid editing systems.

Content creation applications

The Matrox MXO2 devices provide WYSIWYG support for applications such as Adobe Encore CS5, Photoshop CS5, and After Effects CS5.

H.264 encoding/authoring applications that take advantage of Matrox MAX technology

The Matrox MXO2 devices equipped with Matrox MAX technology tap in to Adobe Media Encoder to let you quickly and easily create H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web and mobile devices. You can create Blu-ray H.264 level

4.0files, directly from Adobe Media Encoder that can be authored in Adobe Encore and burned without re-encoding on either Blu-ray or DVD media. These Blu-ray H.264 level 4.0 files can also be used for mass replication of Blu-ray discs.

Adobe Premiere Pro

The Matrox MXO2 platforms go far beyond the capabilities of systems that combine Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and a simple I/O card. The additional benefits you get include:

•Convenient form factors for use with laptops and desktops in studio, on set, in the field, and in OB vans

•10-bit HDMI input, output and monitoring with unique Matrox color calibration controls including blue-only

•10-bit realtime hardware up/down/cross conversion on capture and output

•Capture to HD and SD video to 8- and 10-bit uncompressed AVI files

•Capture to HD and SD video to the highly-efficient Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame intermediate codec at bit rates from 50 to 300 mbps

•Playback of 32-bit MPEG-2 I-frame AVI files with alpha

•Matrox A/V Tools application for fast capture/playback of audio, video, and still frames

When you include the Matrox MAX option in your MXO2 device you also get:

•Matrox MAX technology for lightning fast H.264 encoding with Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore

•Matrox RT technology that enhances the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine to provide full-resolution, full-frame-rate, multi-layer, realtime video editing and advanced realtime Matrox Flex CPU effects

Matrox MXO2 Family for PC Product Guide