Matrox RT.X100 delivers many unique professional features that are not available on any other video editing card in its class. It's ideal for corporate communicators, event videographers, project studios, educational facilities, and digital filmmakers.

The Matrox RT.X100 bundle includes the full version of Adobe Premiere. You get full-quality, full-resolution, no compromise realtime editing at a price that is comparable, or even lower, than other software-only realtime applications. The combination of Matrox RT.X100 and Adobe Premiere provides vastly more realtime editing and productivity features than you get with just software alone.

• Realtime CPU-based effects including realtime color correction, realtime chroma and luma keying, and realtime adjustable motion control
• A vast array of Matrox Flex 3D-powered realtime effects & transitions in 19 different classes
• The flexibility and power to combine up to 16 effects in real time with complete keyframe control
• A full complement of superior acquisition & delivery tools including realtime DV output and realtime MPEG-2 capture and encoding for DVD authoring
• A complete suite of digital video production tools incorporating many professional productivity features

Matrox RT.X100 builds on the success of the Matrox RT2500 and Matrox DigiSuite MAX realtime editing platforms that have won numerous awards and been delivered to well over 100,000 users worldwide.

• The "Power of X" – leveraging the scalable power of your CPU with the explosive performance of dedicated hardware for the ultimate realtime video editing experience - Read more...
• Adobe Premiere like you've never seen before - better capture tools, full-quality turbo-charged editing, faster export - Read more...
• Advanced realtime, 3-way, 18-parameter YUV color correction plus 8-parameter RGB gain/offset colorization - Read more...
• Realtime chroma and luma keying - Read more...
• Realtime adjustable fast and slow motion - Read more...
• Realtime pan & scan filter for aspect ratio conversion between 16:9 and 4:3 - Read more...
• Most powerful realtime 3D technology for video, titles, and 32-bit graphics - Read more...
• Intuitive, consistent interfaces for efficient, accurate effects creation
• Freedom to combine and keyframe up to 16 effects in real time, at full quality - Read more...
• Realtime SinglePass DV scan and capture - Read more...
• Realtime MPEG-2 capture and encoding for DVD authoring - Read more...
• Realtime DV-1394, composite, and Y/C input and output - Read more...
• Hardware-accelerated simultaneous batch encoding of DVD, SVCD, VCD, and web formats - Read more...

The Power of X

"The Power of X" – that's what we call the ability of the new generation of Matrox products to leverage the scalable power of your CPU with the explosive performance of dedicated hardware for the ultimate realtime video editing experience.

Here's why it's important… Until recently, dedicated hardware has been required at the heart of every realtime nonlinear editing system because CPUs just weren't up to the demanding task of handling video in realtime. Suddenly, with the advent of Gigahertz CPUs, editing software can be made to do some editing operations in real time, without hardware assistance, using just CPU power alone.

Today's CPUs, however, are still not powerful enough to allow software-based realtime engines to perform all the realtime operations you would typically like to do, at full quality. Compromises are necessary. Common trade-offs include working at half- or quarter-screen preview resolution, reducing the frame rate, and turning off processing-intensive filtering and antialiasing. When you're done with your last edit, you must spend the time to render your entire project to see the actual result.

Software-based editing products hold the promise of being more flexible and more scalable because as CPU speed increases, so does editing performance. On the other hand, specialized hardware excels at a number of time-consuming functions such as DV and MPEG-2 encoding and 3D effects. It also provides the necessary analog and digital inputs and outputs that are not built into your computer.

"The Power of X" takes full advantage of your CPU and harnesses the power of dedicated hardware to give you the extra edge to enhance your editing experience – at a price that is comparable or even lower than many software-only editing products.

With Matrox RT.X100, you generate revenue for your business today. As computer platforms get faster in the future, you'll benefit from the scalable power of the CPU, and still be a step ahead with the extra boost you get from fully-optimized hardware.

The Power of X, as implemented in Matrox RT.X100, now exploits the full power of the CPU for:
• Ultra-fast DV decoding without quality compromises
• Smooth slow and fast motion control
• Advanced 18 parameter color correction
• Advanced chroma keying with shadow preservation, spill removal, and noise reduction

The Power of X, as implemented in Matrox RT.X100, exploits the full power of dedicated hardware for:
• Realtime DV output
• Realtime MPEG-2 encoding
• Analog input and output
• Compositing and true 3D geometric effects
• High-quality bi-cubic and anisotropic effects filtering

For a more complete explanation, please see our white paper entitled "Discover the Power of X".