May 04
Videomaker by Charlie Fulton
A very versatile video capture device with the portability edge.
For your consideration: a slick little box that captures HD and SD video, and outputs video in just as many formats. Unequivocal success, you would say? Certainly is – and even better, it can also perform faster-than-real-time H.264 compression operations through hardware. Knowledge is power when selecting any kind of video capture device, and
Matrox has a great amount of background in this field, dating back to their original RT.X family of capture devices.
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Tagged with: H.264 • Matrox • MAX • MXO2 • MXO2 Mini
Apr 20
Production Apprentice by John DeMaio
Matrox definitely won the “surprise announcement” award from this year’s NAB with its Avid partnership. This gives Avid editors around the world the hardware that they have been desperately needing. Continue reading »
Tagged with: Avid • CS5 • Matrox • MAX • MC5 • Mercury • MXO2 • MXO2 Mini • NAB
Apr 16
Production Apprentice by John DeMaio
I have been an Avid editor for at least 10 years now, but I always thought that they were catering to their higher-end users and news stations – not people like me. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It appears that Avid is listening to their user base, and it definitely shows in Media Composer version 5. First the big news – Avid now supports third-party hardware! I couldn’t believe it! Don’t get me wrong, I love working on an Adrenaline just like the next guy, but I definitely couldn’t afford one. Now that Matrox is on board with their MXO2 Mini, editing on an Avid just became affordable again. Continue reading »
Tagged with: AMA • Avid • DSLR • MC5 • MXO2 • MXO2 Mini • NAB • ProRes
Apr 12
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced support for Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Production Premium software with Matrox MXO™2 I/O devices for Windows. The key features of this new release include: full-resolution, full-frame-rate, multi-layer, realtime video editing via Matrox RT™ technology; lightning fast H.264 hardware encoding for Blu-ray, the Web, and mobile devices via Matrox MAX™ technology; and professional audio and video input and output with 10-bit hardware up/down/cross conversion. Continue reading »
Tagged with: Adobe • CS5 • Matrox • MXO2 LE • MXO2 Mini • NAB
