Matrox RT.X2

The Matrox RT.X2 has the same great features as the Matrox RT.X2 LE plus full-resolution HD monitoring via DVI output. If you have a full-size workstation with the room for this extra large PCIe hardware card than the Matrox RT.X2 will give you the all the features as the smaller RT.X2 LE plus DVI output. That means you can use an inexpensive flat-panel display to preview full-resolution HD video! Now with new MX.Tools 4.0 drivers will turn your Adobe CS4 video editing system into a video production powerhouse capable of editing HD & SD footage in realtime – that's the HARDWARE ADVANTAGE!

Matrox RT.X2 Hardware Only		$1,295.00
	Matrox RT.X2 with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4	$1,695.00
	Matrox RT.X2 with Adobe CS4 Production Premium	$2,695.00 with FREE Training DVD for CS4 Production Premium

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Key features of Matrox RT.X2

Professional realtime HD and SD editing

• Full-resolution HD monitoring on an inexpensive flat panel display via independent DVI output on RT.X2
• 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
• Realtime native HDV, XDCAM EX, P2 MXF 720p, and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame HD editing
• Realtime 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 downscaling for analog SD output from an HD timeline
• Realtime MPEG-2 IBP capture from analog and DV sources for DVD authoring
• Accelerated export to Blu-ray, DVD, all 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
• Matrox RT.X2 is available as a bundle with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 or as hardware-only

The dimension of the RT.X2 card are:

• Nominal card dimensions Card 12.2" × 4.2"
• Card including bracket 13.875" × 4.9"
• Overall thickness including components 0.75"

Realtime multi-layer HD/SD workflows

Matrox RT.X2 is designed primarily for realtime native HDV, DV, Sony XDCAM EX, and Panasonic P2 720p and SD editing, but also provides a high-quality MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame codec so you can capture other HD and SD formats over the analog inputs, and mix all types of footage on an HD or SD timeline in real time.

Extensive camera support
Matrox RT.X2 supports a wide range of analog, DV, HDV, XDCAM EX, and P2 cameras from the world's leading manufacturers including most of the resolutions of these new models:

JVC HD110, HD200, HD250 Sony PMW-EX1, PMW-EX3, HVR-A1, HVR-Z1, HVR-V1, PDW-F330 Panasonic HVX200, HDX900, HDC27H, HPX2000 Canon XH A1, XH G1, XL H1

Highest quality realtime effects
The Matrox RT.X2 is designed to overcome the limitations of software-only editing by providing performance- and quality-optimized effects processing. Built on Matrox Power of X and Flex technologies, the Matrox RT.X2 leverages CPU and GPU power to provide a tightly integrated, high performance editing environment for Adobe Premiere Pro. Matrox RT.X2's broadcast quality effects are fully keyframeable and feature a high level of control for detailed work. Each effect has a series of parameters that can be fine tuned to get just the look you want. To save time you can use the preconfigured effects presets or create and save your own presets.

Most realtime video/graphics layers
Many editing systems compromise quality or effects refinement and complexity to increase the number of layers, whereas the Matrox RT.X2 always delivers maximum realtime quality. Timelines with more layers and/or effects than can be processed in realtime can still benefit from hardware-accelerated previews. The Matrox RT.X2 always plays back the timeline at the best possible quality and if necessary, gracefully reduce the frame rate. You always get in-context feedback as you work.

The number of layers that can be processed in real time depends on your system CPU and GPU as well as the characteristics of your workflow - the video resolution you are working with, the frame rate, the codec, and the number and complexity of effects. System selection guidelines and lists of computers, motherboards, and GPUs validated for use with the RT.X2 card is posted in the support section of the Matrox website.

Realtime HD editing workflows
Matrox RT.X2 provide the flexibility you need to get the most from your HDV editing experience.

Capture
Getting HD footage into your RT.X2 system is simple and straightforward. You can capture from analog sources to the Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame HD codec, transfer HDV via 1394, or do a direct file copy from solid-state media for P2 and XDCAM EX.

Matrox RT.X2 also supports the use of the popular Focus Enhancements FS-5 and FS-4 DTE drives allowing you to simply transfer video files to your Matrox system and edit them in real time.

Monitoring is supported while capturing via analog or 1394.

Edit
Matrox RT.X2 provides realtime mixed-format HD editing. Provided all your footage has the same frame rate, you can put the various formats, even SD, on the timeline and play it back in real time. The following combinations are supported:

NTSC timeline

1. XDCAM EX SP 1440x1080i
2. HDV 1440x1080i
3. NTSC (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)

PAL timeline

1. XDCAM EX SP 1440x1080i
2. HDV 1440x1080i
3. PAL (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)

486p timeline

1. XDCAM EX SP 1440x1080i
2. HDV 1440x1080i
3. HDV 1440 x 1080p at 29.97 fps
4. 486p (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)

576p timeline

1. XDCAM EX SP 1440x1080i
2. HDV 1440x1080i
3. HDV 1440 x 1080p
4. 576p (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)

720p timeline

1. P2 720p
2. XDCAM EX HQ 720p
3. HDV 720p

1440x1080p timeline

1. XDCAM EX HQ 1920x1080p
2. XDCAM EX SP 1440x1080p
3. HDV 1440x1080p
4. NTSC (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)
5. PAL (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)
6. 486p (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)
7. 576p (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)

1440x1080i timeline

1. XDCAM EX HQ 1920x1080i
2. XDCAM EX SP 1440x1080i
3. HDV 1440x1080i
4. NTSC (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)
5. PAL (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)
6. 486p (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)
7. 576p (MPEG-2 I-Frame, P2 MXF, DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO)

Monitor
Matrox RT.X2 provides full-resolution HD monitoring on an inexpensive flat panel display via its independent DVI output. You won’t need to buy expensive HD monitoring equipment or the video-to-DVI converter required for monitoring with some I/O cards. In fact, RT.X2 provides better HD video definition, with pixel-to-pixel mapping on a flat panel (1920 x 1200), than you will get on a more expensive professional HD monitor which is typically limited to approximately 800 lines of resolution.

Deliver
When your edits are complete, you can record your project directly to tape using RT.X2's analog component HD output, export to an HDV device over 1394, or use RT.X2's accelerated export feature to deliver all the formats included in Adobe Premiere Pro faster than ever.

Adobe Premiere Pro export formats include:

• Blu-ray
• DVD
• Windows Media for digital cinema, HD DVD, web, and multimedia
• QuickTime
• Real Media
• MPEG-1 for VCD and multimedia
• MPEG-2 for S-VCD, DVD, and HD DVD
• MPEG-4 for streaming
• Flash video (FLV)
• Adobe Clip Notes

The Matrox EZ-HDV utility lets you playback HDV-AVI files of any length in Video for Windows applications, overcoming the usual 2 GB AVI file size limitation. It does this by creating a very small reference AVI file almost instantaneously without modifying the contents of your original HDV-AVI file.

You can use MXF files created by your Panasonic P2 camera directly without having to convert the files to the traditional AVI file format. In addition, the unique Matrox EZ-MXF utility that is included with Matrox RT.X2 lets you use your native MXF files in animation, compositing, and motion graphics applications that support Video for Windows AVI files.

RT.X2 supports Panasonic VariCam 24p and 25p workflows with the Panasonic HVX200 camera via MXF file transfers. The camera actually saves 60 or 50 frames in the P2 MXF file and tags the ones that should be used to playback at 23.98 or 25 fps. RT.X2 lets you play those MXF files in a 23.98 or 25 timeline without any additional processing. RT.X2 will detect and remove the repeated frames on the fly. The camera also features a "pN" native mode in which it will only save the required 23.98 or 25 frames on the P2 card. RT.X2 also supports realtime playback of those "pN" files.

Note: When capturing from a VariCam source using Matrox RT.X2, only video can be captured. However, you can add a voiceover or separate audio clips to your VariCam clips on the timeline. RT.X2 supports playback of both video and audio in MXF files that you've recorded on your Panasonic VariCam camera.

Matrox RT.X2 extends Windows Explorer functionality to simplify AVI and MXF file management. Important details such as User Clip Name, Start Timecode, End Timecode, Duration, etc. are available in the Windows Explorer Details View. A clip icon can also be displayed in the Thumbnails View to let you more easily identify your clips.

Sony XDCAM EX support
Matrox RT.X2 provides realtime native editing of the .mp4 files that are written by the XDCAM camcorder in Adobe Premiere Pro. You can also use these files directly in Adobe After Effects. There are no time-consuming file format conversions and no need to waste disk space managing multiple versions of files. The XDCAM EX HQ-mode (1080i/p and 720p) and 1080i/p SP-mode (1440x1080) are both supported. Over and under cranked files created by the XDCAM EX camcorder's "Slow and Quick Motion Function" variable frame rate mode can be played back in real time without rendering.

Realtime downscaling of HD timelines to SD
Matrox RT.X2 also downscales HD projects to broadcast-quality NTSC and PAL with proper conversion of the HD color space to the SD color space. You can print your HD edit to analog SD tape in real time and or use this feature to preview your HD projects on an inexpensive SD monitor.

On RT.X2, if you need an HD master, you can open the same SD project in an HD timeline. No recapturing is necessary.

Other SD clips captured from analog SD sources with the same resolution and frame rate can be mixed on your SD timeline in real time.

When the need arises, HDV clips can also be placed on your SD timeline. The RT.X2 will downscale them so you can mix 1080i at 29.97 fps material into an NTSC timeline or 1080i at 25 fps material into a PAL timeline in real time. With Matrox RT.X2, you can also mix MPEG-2 I-frame HD material on an SD timeline in real time.

Realtime MPEG-2 IBP capture from analog SD and DV sources for direct DVD authoring
The Matrox RT.X2 lets you capture clips in realtime from analog and DV sources directly to MPEG-2 IBP (.m2v) files for immediate use in your DVD authoring program. There is no need to capture video first, then place clips on the timeline to finally export them into the MPEG-2 DVD format. This feature is an invaluable tool when archiving stock footage and projects on digital servers or DVD disks.

Realtime Flex CPU effects

The Matrox RT.X2 relies on the power of your CPU to perform a variety of realtime and accelerated effects.

The Matrox Flex CPU effects are also available in Adobe After Effects. If you have a timeline in Premiere Pro with any of the Matrox Flex CPU effects and you copy/paste the timeline into After Effects, the Matrox effects will remain intact. This is a huge time saver, given that these effects are realtime in Premiere Pro.

Realtime primary color correction
Primary color correction is a critically important effect for all productions, whether to achieve continuity when cutting between shots, ensure broadcast safe levels, or establish and emphasize a "look". The primary color corrector provides basic proc amp control; three-way color correction complete with master, shadows, midtones and highlights control; input/output level control; and RGB curves control.

Realtime proc amp controls
The Matrox RT.X2 lets you easily adjust four proc amp controls - hue, saturation, brightness, and contrast. Hue adjusts the tint of the colors in the image, saturation adjusts the vividness, contrast adjusts the difference in luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of the image, and brightness adjusts the level of black. You can also use these controls to create special effects, such as black and white, in real time.

Realtime color match and color balance
Colors can be corrected using nine parameters related to the black (shadow), midtone, and white (highlight) levels of your clips. You can easily match colors or balance blacks, whites, and grays against a reference shot in one simple step.

Realtime input/output level control
Using the histogram display and level controls, luminance levels can be remapped to maximize the dynamic range of a clip. For example, bright areas can be made brighter and dark areas can be made darker. Five parameters are available - black, white, and gamma levels on the input; and black and white levels on the output. Auto white and auto black controls are also provided.

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 provides 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.

The realtime luma keyer gives you low clip, low gain, high clip, high gain, and transparency controls.

Realtime speed changes
You can use speed changes to emphasize special moments, extend the duration of shots to match voiceover timing, or enhance the feeling of dramatic shots. You can apply smooth slow and fast motion with field or frame blending.

Realtime transitions
The Matrox RT.X2 supports standard dissolves, SMPTE wipes, and organic wipes with soft edges and color borders.

Realtime track matte
The realtime track matte effect lets you superimpose one clip onto another using an animated matte, sometimes called a traveling matte, to determine how the two clips are composited (keyed). You can use a grayscale video or graphics clip as your matte, or use a graphics clip or graphics sequence with an alpha channel as your matte. When using a grayscale clip as your matte, areas of black in the matte create transparent areas in your foreground clip, areas of white create opaque areas that prevent the underlying clip from showing through, and gray areas create semi-transparent areas in your foreground clip.

Realtime move & scale
This effect lets you apply multiple 2D DVEs simultaneously in real time to easily set up picture-in-picture effects. You can also use the move & scale effect to animate multiple titles in real time.

Realtime SD clip upscaling in an HD timeline
This effect is enabled by right-clicking on an SD clip in an HD timeline and selecting "scale to frame size". It provides realtime playback of SD clips upscaled to HD to let you mix NTSC material into a 1080i at 29.97 fps timeline or PAL material into a 1080i at 25 fps timeline. It also provides realtime playback of 576p or 486p SD clips upscaled to HD to mix into a 1080p timeline.

Realtime HD clip downscaling in an SD timeline
This effect is enabled by right-clicking on an HDV clip in an SD timeline and selecting "scale to frame size". It provides realtime playback of HDV clips downscaled to SD to let you mix 1080i at 29.97 fps material into an NTSC timeline or 1080i at 25 fps material into a PAL timeline. On the RT.X2, MPEG-2 I-frame HD clips can also be downscaled in an SD timeline. It also provides realtime playback of HDV 1080p clips downscaled to SD to mix into a 576p or 486p SD timeline. On the RT.X2, MPEG-2 I-frame HD clips can also be downscaled in an SD timeline.

Native Adobe Premiere Pro effects and transitions
Some of Adobe Premiere Pro's most popular native effects and transitions such as Opacity, Crop, Dip to Black, Black and White, Dissolve, and Additive Dissolve can be used in real time in SD. RT.X2 accelerates these effects and transitions in HD.

Realtime timecode
The RT.X2 overwrites the Adobe Premiere Pro timecode filter so that it becomes realtime. The realtime time code effect lets you generate and overlay a time code counter on a video production. You can use it to make a dub of source tapes with time code "burn-in" then use these tapes to log scenes, create edit decision lists, or get client feedback on your finished production.