Key Features
- Realtime 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
- Native HDV and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame HD editing
- Native DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame SD editing
- Realtime mixing of HD codecs and SD codecs on any timeline
- 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 and Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds
Max, eyeon Fusion, and NewTek
LightWave 3D 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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