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Matrox
Matrox Axio LE
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Part number: AXIOLE
GG Product ID: 99918710
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Matrox Axio LE is a complete post-production solution that lets you get the best from the Adobe Production Studio software. It gives you the highest finishing quality coupled with the most comprehensive realtime feature set and the most versatile codec technology, completely integrated with the Adobe software.
Matrox Axio LE goes far beyond the capabilities of systems that combine Adobe Premiere Pro with a simple I/O card. It features no-render HD and SD finishing in a wide range of 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 also lets you work seamlessly with the other Adobe applications, fully supporting Adobe Dynamic Link and providing WYSIWYG video output support for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop CS2, as well as other industry-leading animation and compositing packages.
What’s new in Matrox Axio 3.0?
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium support
Uncompressed 10-bit HD and SD editing on Axio LE
New progressive SD editing resolutions
Sony HDV 1080p support (HVR-V1 cameras)
Canon 24f and 30f mode support
Sony XDCAM HD 1080p @ 29.97 fps and XDCAM HD export support
Realtime color correction using RGB curves
Realtime Adobe garbage masks
Realtime sphere effect
Realtime time code
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium support
The Axio 3.0 release works only with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. A new feature that is particularly attractive to Axio users is support for Blu-ray. You can now deliver a high definition DVD using Adobe Encore CS3 that is included in the Adobe CS3 Production Premium bundle and with the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 point product.
Current Axio customers must obtain an upgrade to the new Adobe software from Adobe in order to use the Axio 3.0 release. If you purchase Axio bundled with Adobe software from March 27, 2007 (May 8, 2007 in Japan) through August 28, 2007, you qualify for a complimentary upgrade to the equivalent Adobe CS3 product from Adobe when it ships.
Uncompressed 10-bit HD and SD editing on Axio LE
The Axio 3.0 release adds realtime uncompressed 10-bit HD and SD editing support to the Matrox Axio LE platform.
New progressive SD editing resolutions
The Axio 3.0 release provides realtime native editing in the following progressive standard definition resolutions:
486p @ 29.97 fps
576p @ 25 fps
Support for these new resolutions is particularly useful for users of the Panasonic DVX100 and HVX200 lines of cameras. Use of the progressive formats makes your video productions look more like film.
Sony HDV 1080p support (HVR-V1 cameras)
The Axio 3.0 release provides seamless realtime native editing in all the HDV resolutions of the Sony HVR-V1 cameras including the following progressive resolutions:
1440x1080p @ 29.97 fps
1440x1080p @ 25 fps
1440x1080p @ 23.98 fps
While editing in these resolutions the output is 1920x1080i @ 29.97 or 1920x1080i @ 25. The Sony HVR-V1 cameras feature an optional Sony hard drive unit, the HVR-DR60, which captures MPEG-2 elementary files (m2t). The Axio 3.0 release provides realtime native editing of m2t files that are captured on the hard drive unit.
Canon 24f and 30f mode support
Axio currently supports the Canon 1080i resolution. The Axio 3.0 release supports the 24f and 30f modes as well. These are 23.98 fps and 29.97 fps HDV recording formats.
Sony XDCAM HD 1080p @ 29.97 fps and XDCAM HD export support
The Axio 3.0 release adds realtime native editing support for the Sony XDCAM HD 1080p @ 29.97 fps format. It also provides export of native Sony XDCAM HD MXF files for complete file-based workflow support in HD.
Realtime color correction using RGB curves>/b>
RGB curves control have been added to the Matrox Axio color corrector. RGB curves offer a fast, natural way to finetune 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 Adobe garbage masks
The Axio 3.0 release overwrites the Adobe Premiere Pro 4-, 8-, and 16-point garbage mask effects so they become realtime in both HD and SD. A garbage mask is often used when compositing multiple layers. For example, when applying a key, it is often desirable to apply a garbage mask so that you can crop unwanted objects from the background.
Realtime sphere
The realtime sphere effect lets you morph your video into spheres with shadow and highlight. The degree of morphing,
the radius of the sphere, and the location of your light source are all keyframeable.
Realtime time code
The Axio 3.0 release 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.
Matrox Axio LE is a complete post-production solution that lets you get the best from the Adobe Production Studio software. It gives you the highest finishing quality coupled with the most comprehensive realtime feature set and the most versatile codec technology, completely integrated with the Adobe software.
Matrox Axio LE goes far beyond the capabilities of systems that combine Adobe Premiere Pro with a simple I/O card. It features no-render HD and SD finishing in a wide range of 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 also lets you work seamlessly with the other Adobe applications, fully supporting Adobe Dynamic Link and providing WYSIWYG video output support for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop CS2, as well as other industry-leading animation and compositing packages.
Matrox Axio features no-render HD and SD finishing in a wide range of 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 Power of X and Flex technologies to leverage CPU and GPU power to provide the ultimate HD and SD post-production environment.
The Matrox Axio family builds on solid expertise gained over several generations of Matrox DigiSuite and RT Series products. Well over 200,000 users worldwide currently enjoy the amazing value, stable reliability, and superior productivity of Matrox based realtime nonlinear editing systems. Close collaboration between the Matrox and Adobe engineering teams throughout development ensure the tightest hardware/software integration.
Choosing a computer or motherboard for your Matrox Axio LE system
The computer will house the Axio LE card. It must be running Windows XP Professional (32-bit version only), with a PCI-X slot available, adequate cooling, and a power supply large enough to meet the requirements of the Axio LE card and other peripherals in the system. It must also have at least 2 GB of RAM. (Adding more RAM does not provide a significant performance gain for your editing application.)
Your choice of processors is a key element in the performance of your Matrox Axio LE system, particularly when it comes to certain CPU-intensive functions such as:
Encoding and decoding compressed video, particularly in HD (HDV, DVCPRO HD, and MPEG-2 I-frame HD)
Compositing multiple graphics layers
Realtime color correction
Realtime chroma and luma keying
Realtime speed changes
Realtime transitions (Matrox wipes, dissolve, additive dissolve)
Realtime track matte
Realtime SD clip upscaling in an HD project
Realtime multi-camera editing
Matrox Axio LE is optimized to run on both AMD and Intel processors and to take full advantage of their unique architectures. Single-core and multi-core processors are supported. A minimum of two processing cores is required - either two physical single-core processors, or one physical multi-core processor.
When choosing the processors for your system, you should consider your typical workflow. If you plan to edit mostly compressed video, choosing top-of-the line processors may give you additional realtime capability that can be a significant time saver. However, if you will be working mostly with uncompressed video, which is not as CPU intensive, you may want to invest in larger, faster storage rather than CPU horsepower. Keep in mind that more processing power will also benefit many of your other applications, such as Adobe After Effects, Discreet Combustion, etc.
Matrox has validated a number of computers and motherboards for use with Axio LE. For each computer and motherboard, we provide performance results for the GPUs we have tested, as well as validation recipes that tell you how to configure the system.
Note: Only systems built from computers and motherboards chosen from the validated list are eligible for Matrox customer support.
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