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gary
September 1, 2010 9:30 AM
Matrox MXO2 Mini - Great Things DO Come in Small Packages!
I think it's time to start talking more about one of the most cost effective tools you can add to your HD video editing arsenal - the Matrox MXO2 Mini. There are lots of great features in this mighty mite, and I'm going to use this article to tell you all about them. We've had great success in the past using an FAQ format to better explain new products and technology, so we'll keep at it now. (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
May 13, 2010 2:28 PM
Regardless of what tapeless formats you shoot on (P2, XDCAM, AVCHD, DSLR or H.264): what platform you use (PC or Mac, Workstation or Laptop) what NLE you edit with (Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer) the MXO2 Mini is the perfect HD monitoring solution for you. No other hardware is as powerful, flexible, portable or affordable.
With the Matrox MXO2 Mini you can monitor your timeline in full HD resolution on a flat screen HDTV via HDMI or component video. Matrox's (Read More)
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gary
May 5, 2010 10:49 AM
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. ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
April 21, 2010 10:00 PM
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.
Matrox’s MXO2 Mini is definitely a device that will get some serious attention from Avid editors, but that’s not all that Matrox had up its sleeve. They also announced the ability to accelerate Mercury through its MAX line of products (Read More)
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gary
April 17, 2010 5:01 PM
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 affo ( Read More)
Posted by:
jim
April 13, 2010 11:38 AM
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. ( Read More)
Posted by:
jim
April 12, 2010 3:10 PM
Raising the bar on format flexibility, openness and speed, Avid® today introduced new versions of its industry-leading editing systems including Avid Media Composer® (v5). Now with support for Matrox MX02™ Mini monitoring hardware, which is ideal for customers looking for a low-cost external monitoring solution that enables field editing and simplified client screening sessions. ( Read More)
Posted by:
jim
April 12, 2010 12:33 PM
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced a cost-effective HD monitoring solution for the newly launched Avid® Media Composer® V5 and NewsCutter® V9 editing systems. Matrox MXO2 Mini turns a user’s HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with color calibration tools including blue-only. The small, lightweight, external box is ideal for file-based workflows in studio, on set, in the field and in OB vans. It provides HDMI, analog component, S-Video, and composite output and cross-pl ( Read More)
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gary
March 26, 2010 11:51 PM
I’ve covered Matrox for a number of years. With the development of the MXO and MXO2 units, Matrox has put together one of the strongest families of I/O products that are available for the Apple Final Cut Pro editing customer. The original MXO was designed to use the video signal from one of the internal graphics card’s DVI ports and turn that into a broadcast quality signal for output and monitoring. The MXO2 was built as a more traditional ingest and output system. Instead of DVI, the MXO2 conn ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
March 26, 2010 9:46 AM
The Matrox MXO2 Mini is definitely a solid piece of hardware that will not disappoint. At just $450 for the Matrox MXO2 Mini without the MAX hardware you have a solid I/O device that can capture just about any source a client will throw at you. Also, Matrox’s calibration software will allow you to monitor your video properly to any HDMI monitor. The choice of codec and bitrate will fit any project that you might face and the HDMI in and out is a dream if you’re neurotic about your cabling – e ( Read More)
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gary
February 18, 2010 2:58 PM
"The Matrox MAX technology has revolutionized our workflow. Our camera crews typically would record to tape or FireStore drives using our Canon HV20/HV40, Sony PMW-EX1, and Panasonic HPX500 camcorders. They would then ship the tapes or drives back to our facility where staff would transfer the footage to Final Cut Server. It would take us a day just to see it, then another three or four hours to add all the metadata so the editors could get to work. Once the editing was done we would output from ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
February 16, 2010 4:01 PM
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox Vetura Playback, a new application on the Mac for convenient playback of H.264 and .mov files using any of the Matrox MXO2 I/O devices.
Field journalists equipped with a Matrox MXO2 device that includes the Matrox MAX H.264 encoding accelerator can shoot and edit their stories, then quickly encode to a very high quality H.264 file faster then realtime. (Read More)
Posted by:
gary
February 15, 2010 9:51 AM
lets get on to the Matrox MXO2 and, more importantly, the newest and imminent driver release that’s coming our way. Unlucky for some perhaps, but hopefully not for Matrox or their users, version 1.9 will be the 13th driver release for the MXO2 in just 18 months... and its a doozy. ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
December 1, 2009 1:33 PM
Matrox announced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.2 support on the Mac for Matrox MXO2 Mini, MXO2 LE, MXO2 and MXO2 Rack. These devices provide all the features of an I/O devices1 and a sturdy breakout box with the added advantage of portability. ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
November 24, 2009 9:49 AM
The MXO2 comes in several configurations: MXO2, MXO2 Rackmount, MXO2 LE and MXO2 Mini. All the MXO2 boxes essentially do the same thing, with the distinguishing factor being the inputs and outputs available. Each box provides for monitor calibration, up-convert, down-convert, cross-convert of video content, and optional accelerated encoding for H.264 using the Matrox Max technology. ( Read More)
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