Matrox RT2500
by Rick Smith (December 17, 2001)
The Matrox RT2500 hardware and software package is a real-time editing platform that includes the tools to:
Capture analog and digital video
Edit projects in real time
Create broadcast-quality titles
Perform 3D effects
Transfer to tape, DVD, CD or web files
To accomplish this, Matrox has included the following software:
Adobe Premiere 6.0 for real-time editing
Inscriber TitleExpress for professional titling
Matrox MediaTools for automated single-pass DV scan and capture
Ligos LSX-MPEG LE for accelerated MPEG-1, VCD, and SVCD output
Sonic Foundry ACID Music for music track production audio editing
Sonic Solutions DVDit! LE for DVD authoring
Pixélan Video SpiceRack Lite for real-time organic transitions
Ligos LSX MPEG LE for accelerated MPEG-1, VCD, and SVCD output
Matrox Flex 3D for broadcast-quality effects
Matrox RT2500 hardware is a single PCI-bus video editing card that works with the video display card in your computer system. It supports true three-layer real-time editing -- two native-DV or MPEG-2 video streams and a 32-bit uncompressed graphics layer, simultaneously, in real time. A number of different effects are supported, such as:
Particlization
3D tiling
Distortions
2D effects
Colorization
Transparency effects
Keyframeable 3D digital video effects
Many of these effects can be added, in real time, with no rendering.
Matrox RT2500 supports all the important input/output connections and formats needed in an editing system. Capture from analog or DV tape is supported, as well as output to tape, DVD, CD, and the web. The RT2500 performs native DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO and MPEG-2 editing. English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish are the supported languages.
Because video is an application that loves high performance systems, the RT2500 supports both the Pentium 4 and dual-processor systems to perform ultra-fast DV exports. Windows 2000 and Windows Me are the supported operating systems.
The Matrox RT2500 package is currently available and costs about $1000.
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© 2006 Rick Smith All rights reserved.
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