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Matrox Announces Support for Adobe Production Studio and Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 on Matrox Axio Realtime HD and SD Editing Platforms (24/1/2006)

Matrox Video Products Group today announced that release 2.0 software for the Matrox Axio family of HD and SD editing platforms will support the newly announced Adobe Production Studio and Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. In addition to support for the latest Adobe software, Matrox Axio release 2.0 will include realtime multi-camera editing, realtime SD clip upscaling in an HD timeline, an accelerated shine effect, voice-over recording in the timeline, audio VU meters on capture, and WYSIWYG support for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop CS2, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, and NewTek LightWave 3D.

Matrox Axio makes Adobe Premiere Pro the foremost realtime HD and SD editor for demanding broadcast and post-production environments. It features no-render HD and SD finishing in compressed and uncompressed formats, superior realtime color correction tools, advanced realtime effects, and a full complement of analog and digital audio and video inputs and outputs. It incorporates Matrox Flex 3D and Power of X technologies to leverage CPU and GPU power to provide the ultimate SD and HD editing experience.

"Matrox Axio 2.0 goes far beyond the capabilities of systems that combine Adobe Production Studio or Premiere Pro 2.0 with a simple I/O card," said Ankit Patel, Matrox Axio product manager. "Customers not only benefit from the productivity enhancements of the new Adobe software, with Axio they also get many more realtime layers of video and graphics in HD and SD and many more realtime effects including broadcast-quality 3D, plus native support for additional codecs including: DVCPRO HD, offline HD, MPEG-2 I-frame in HD and SD, DVCPRO, and DV50. They also benefit from accelerated exports to all multimedia formats including Flash Video."

Key features of Matrox Axio

There are two Matrox Axio platforms to choose from. Both offer ultra high performance editing in all HD and SD formats. They differ only in terms of the editing codecs supported and the audio and video inputs and outputs provided on the interchangeable breakout boxes. Both Matrox Axio platforms offer:

- Guaranteed full quality, full frame rate, full resolution playback at up to 1080i at 29.97 fps - At least 2 layers of uncompressed HD video plus 2 layers of graphics in real time, with effects* - At least 4 layers of uncompressed SD video plus 6 layers of graphics in real time, with effects* - Realtime primary and secondary color correction with shot-to-shot color matching - Realtime multi-camera, 3D DVEs, chroma/luma keying, speed changes, blur/glow/soft focus, and much more - Uncompressed HD and SD editing - Native HDV and DVCPRO HD editing - Compressed HD editing (offline and online finishing-quality MPEG-2 I-frame) - DV, DVCPRO, DV50, and MPEG-2 I-frame SD editing - Realtime mixing of HD codecs or SD codecs on the timeline - Realtime playback of SD clips in a 1080i HD timeline - 24 fps editing in HD and SD with pull down and reverse pull down - Realtime high quality downscaling from HD to SD - WYSIWYG for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, and NewTek LightWave 3D

Matrox Axio HD

- Uncompressed 8- or 10-bit HD and SD editing - DV-1394, SD SDI, and HD SDI input and output - RGB and YPbPr analog component output - 4-in/8-out AES/EBU balanced audio, 8-in/8-out SDI embedded audio

Matrox Axio SD

- Uncompressed 8- or 10-bit SD editing - Uncompressed 8- bit HD editing - DV-1394, composite, Y/C, analog component, and SD SDI video input and output - 2-in/2-out RCA and XLR audio, 8-in/8-out SDI embedded audio - Upgradeable to Matrox Axio HD by simply adding the HD breakout box

* Realtime performance increases significantly with Dual-Core systems - up to double the number of realtime layers.

Price and availability

Matrox Axio release 2.0 drivers will be available in March and provided free of charge to registered Matrox Axio owners. Prices for Matrox Axio HD systems start at under GBP 10,000. Prices for Matrox Axio SD systems start at under GBP 7,500. Prices include the complete Adobe Video Collection Standard and a workstation. Storage is extra. Matrox Axio is available worldwide through a network of authorized dealers. The software and hardware components are integrated by the dealer into an approved workstation-class PCI-X computer, coupled with a robust storage subsystem, and delivered as a turnkey system. Dealers also provide on-site installation and training services.

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