03/27/2007
Matrox announces RTX.2 3.0!
Matrox Announces Support for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, and Realtime Panasonic P2 MXF 720p Editing on the Matrox RT.X2 Platform
Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that software release 3.0 for the Matrox RT.X2™ editing platform will support the newly announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 software. In addition, the Matrox RT.X2 3.0 release will provide support for Windows Vista, additional HD and SD cameras and editing resolutions including the Panasonic P2 MXF 720p format, plus new realtime effects. The new features of Matrox RT.X2 will be demonstrated at NAB 2007 in booth SL2015.
“The RT.X2 3.0 release brings extensive new camera support, giving users many more workflow options including realtime native editing of the popular Panasonic P2 MXF 720p format,” said Wayne Andrews, Matrox RT.X2 product manager. “Combined with all the exciting new features of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, Matrox RT.X2 users now have all the tools they need to produce top-quality SD and HD productions – creatively, efficiently, and faster than ever – then easily deliver to tape, DVD, Blu-ray disc, the web, and mobile devices.”
New features in the Matrox RT.X2 3.0 release include: • Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium support
• Native editing of Panasonic P2 MXF 720p and SD files
• Panasonic VariCam 720p support
• New progressive SD editing resolutions
• Sony HDV 1080p support (HVR-V1 cameras)
• Canon 24f and 30f mode support
• Realtime color correction using RGB curves
• Realtime Adobe garbage masks
• Realtime sphere effect
• Realtime time code filter
Key features of Matrox RT.X2 • Realtime mixed-format 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 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, Photoshop and Bridge, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, NewTek LightWave 3D, and Windows Media Player 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 independent DVI output
Availability of the Matrox RT.X2 3.0 software
The Matrox RT.X2 3.0 release will be available for download from the Matrox website free of charge to all registered Matrox RT.X2 users in July 2007. Current RT.X2 owners must obtain an upgrade to the new Adobe software from Adobe in order to use the RT.X2 3.0 release. New purchases of Matrox RT.X2 bundled with Adobe software from March 27, 2007 (May 8, 2007 in Japan) through August 28, 2007 qualify for a complimentary upgrade to the equivalent Adobe CS3 product from Adobe when it ships. How to Claim Your Upgrade.
We wish to inform you that Windows Vista support has been removed from RT.X2 and Axio release 3.0. This will ensure that we can provide support for the Adobe CS3 applications in a timely manner. We anticipate Vista support to be available for both RT.X2 and Axio by the end of the year.
Ashley Guy
03/05/2007
Matrox announces new RT.X2 SD!
Matrox is proud to announce a new addition to the Matrox RT.X2 family of products - Matrox RT.X2 SD!
Matrox RT.X2 SD is the ideal solution for corporate communicators, event videographers, project studios, educational facilities and digital filmmakers delivering
their work in SD.
Matrox RT.X2 SD replaces our highly successful RT.X100 platform and brings many exciting new features to our customers who need a high-performance SD editing platform that helps them get the best from Adobe Production Studio
Key features of Matrox RT.X2 SD
• Realtime multi-layer editing of video, graphics, and effects
• 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 DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame SD editing
• Realtime playback of 32-bit MPEG-2 I-frame AVI files with alpha in SD
• Realtime HDV clip downscaling in an SD timeline
• Realtime mixed-format multi-cam in an SD timeline
• Accelerated export to DVD, multimedia formats including Flash Video, and Adobe Clip Notes
• WYSIWYG for Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Bridge, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, NewTek LightWave 3D, and Windows Media Player with dynamic Alt+Tab switching
• Composite, Y/C, and analog component SD input and output
• For use with your copy of Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Production Studio
Price and availability
Priced at $895 US in North America, Matrox RT.X2 SD will be available in April 2007. We will have a more definite delivery date in the coming weeks. RT.X100 will continue to be available while quantities last.
Ashley Guy
10/31/2006
New Canopus Edius Updates Coming Soon
Happy Halloween! Canopus has been busy and is releasing some updates. Most notable here is the FREE inclusion of Xplode Professional. The announcement from the forum:
EDIUS v4.1:
The next stage in EDIUS v4's evolution. This FREE update will add full XDCAM HD editing support, featuring patent pending technology. It'll also add XDCAM SD and HD proxy support, P2 background transfer and Grass Valley K2 GXF export. Since these really only affect EDIUS Broadcast users, we've also slipped in a couple of tweaks that all the EDIUS Pro v4 users can use too.
A note about GXF support - this requires a new dongle, which will automatically be included with shipments in November (the 12th onward at this estimate). K2 GXF support is a very specialised requirement, and as such, we're swapping existing dongles on a case-by-case basis. In all likelihood, you are not missing much by keeping your current EDIUS Broadcast dongle.
People needing Grass Valley K2 GXF support (and who purchased a pre-v4.1 EDIUS product) will need to contact Canopus or their reseller to arrange a dongle transfer.
Incidentally, from mid-November, all EDIUS v4 products will ship with a single DVD-ROM containing all software mentioned in this post. No more multi-cd releases.
More information on v4.1 will be posted when it is released.
Xplode Professional v4.5 for EDIUS v4 software:
We will be releasing the entire software product as a free download for all EDIUS v4 users (because it will ship on the new aforementioned v4 DVD-ROM release).
This full version of Xplode offers all the features of Xplode Professional v4.0 within the EDIUS v4 software. No new features have been added, nor will there be a new hardware rendering library. Xplode Professional is now considered a legacy product, and new feature development has ceased for the time being.
(Btw, no price rise with X4's inclusion)
Adobe Premiere Pro v1.5 plug-in:
A slight rearrangement of distribution is coming, but no real changes in functionality (support for v4 Canopus codec changes to HQ and Lossless is about it).
V1.5 is the last Adobe Premiere Pro software product we will be supporting with our editing hardware boards (NX, SP, Storm etc). Support is as follows:
- DVStorm, Rex, Raptor RT2, EDIUS DVX = Video codecs, device control, video I/O and specialised RT plugin
- EDIUS NX, SP = Video Codecs, device control and video I/O
Video Output Plug-in Pack for NX/SP Repackaged output plug-in pack, updated somewhat for current versions. These will let you use NX/SP hardware to ouput frames within:
- Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2
- Adobe After Effects 7
- LightWave 3D 8.5
(I'm hoping that a LW v9 patch will come later - no promises)
DVCapture v1.11
This application will let you use multiple DV inputs to capture several tapes simultaneously. The only significant change with this release is that it will now run independant of Canopus hardware only if you have v4 of EDIUS software installed.
MPEGcapture v4.02
We're re-releasing this standalone application to add support for the latest HQ codec included in EDIUS v4 products, and to provide DVStorm users with a means to capture their DV and analog to MPEG-2 after installing v4.
If you use EDIUS v4, don't have Storm, and you're happy using the current MPEG-2 capture functions, you don't need this utility.
Ashley Guy
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