MONTREAL - Matrox (www.matrox.com) is now offering its Axio LE high-performance, realtime HD/SD editor for $4,495. The company will be showing the release at the NAB convention in Las Vegas this April.
Matrox's Axio LE is based on Adobe Premiere Pro and offers no-render HD and SD finishing in compressed and uncompressed formats, along with realtime color correction tools, advanced realtime effects, and a complement of analog and digital audio and video inputs and outputs.
The system lets users work seamlessly with the other Adobe Production Studio applications, fully supporting Adobe Dynamic Link and providing WYSIWYG video output support for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop CS2, as well as other animation and compositing packages.
Axio LE incorporates Matrox Flex and Power of X technologies to leverage CPU and GPU power. The system supports uncompressed HD and SD editing; native HDV and DVCPRO HD editing; compressed HD editing; and DV, DVCPRO, DV50, and MPEG-2 I-frame SD editing. Users can mix HD codecs or SD codecs on the timeline in realtime.
Supported I/O includes: DV-1394, composite, Y/C, HD/SD analog component, and HD/SD SDI. The system also offers realtime high-quality downscaling from HD to SD and simultaneous HD and SD output.