Price:

$2,999.00
inc GST

Key Features
• True THREE-LAYER realtime editing - two video layers plus a graphics layer - ALL in realtime
• Realtime broadcast-quality 3D effects on video or graphics powered by Matrox Flex 3D
• Realtime native DV and MPEG-2 editing
• Analog and digital video input/output - Y/C, composite, 1394
• MPEG-2 output for DVD and CD authoring
• RealVideo, Windows Media, and Quicktime output for web video streaming
• Integrated Matrox Millennium Flex 3D Edition graphics card drives your high-performance desktop
• Stereo audio input/output genlocked to video ensures perfect lip-sync
• Complete content creation software bundle –
- Adobe Premiere for realtime editing
- Inscriber TitleExpress for professional titling
- Pixélan Video SpiceRack Lite for organic transitions
- Sonic Foundry ACID Music for audio editing
- Sonic DVDit! LE for DVD authoring
- Ulead Cool 3D for 3D text creation

Realtime Nonlinear Editing
Matrox RT2000 lets you work with two video streams and a 32-bit, uncompressed, animated graphics layer in real time. Choose from organic and 3D transitions, 2D and 3D DVE, and transparency effects – in real time, NO RENDERING!
The realtime editing power of RT2000 gives you the creative freedom to experiment. There’s no penalty for changing your mind. Everything happens instantly, at full online quality, and you see the results immediately on your PAL or NTSC monitor.
Instant random access to any frame in your project gives you a very responsive realtime scrubbing interface. You can see what's happening at any point in your timeline, at full quality, whenever you want – without waiting for a preview to render.

Native DV and MPEG-2 Editing

Native DV Editing
DV is a high-quality format that has been widely accepted by broadcasters and professional video editors. To realize the full quality potential offered by DV, your editing system must share a common bitstream with your DV camera and VTR. Ideally, you record DV in your camera, then digitally transfer your DV material via a 1394 interface to your editing system in the material’s native format. This way, you avoid recompression passes that degrade the quality of your video when you convert to MPEG-2 or M-JPEG. You also avoid analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions that would be necessary without the 1394 link.
Matrox RT2000 provides native editing for all DV formats including Panasonic DVCPRO, Sony DVCAM, Sony Digital-8, and the consumer DV format used by Sony, JVC, Canon, Sharp and Panasonic.

MPEG-2 Editing
If you are acquiring video from an analog source, you can choose to edit in DV or in MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-Frame. Matrox RT2000 lets you capture and edit video in the MPEG-2 I-Frame format at variable bit rates between 10 and 25 Mbps. Whereas DV is fixed at 25 Mbps, MPEG-2 lets you digitize video at lower bit rates so you can make the trade-off between storage space and video quality when working on long form projects. You can offline at the lower bit rates and then autoconform at higher quality MPEG-2 or DV.
MPEG 2 I-Frame is a better format for editing than MPEG-2 IB or IP that you may have heard about because it gives you instant access to every frame in realtime for frame-accurate edits, fast cuts and seeks, and a responsive scrubbing interface.

Broadcast-Quality 3D Effects
Matrox RT2000 harnesses the power of the Matrox Millennium G400 graphics accelerator via the revolutionary new Matrox Flex 3D architecture to deliver realtime, broadcast-quality 2D/3D DVE and transitions. With MEGA Pack, you get over 1,000 realtime filters and transitions including particle effects, 3D tiles, distortion effects, page curls, organic wipes and 2D and 3D DVEs. You can keyframe perspective settings such as rotation, size and position. The fact that Flex 3D is fully programmable means that additional effects can be easily added via supplementary software.
The revolutionary Matrox Flex 3D architecture gives you an unlimited variety of 2D and 3D digital video effects and transitions in real time, at the full quality level of conventional broadcast 3D DVE equipment, but at a small fraction of the cost. It also gives you much more creative freedom than competing products that only provide slow software rendered effects while you sit and wait.

Versatile Analog and Digital Input/Output
Matrox RT2000 supports all the input/output connections you’ll need to get the most from your editing system.
- Y/C and composite video input/output provides capture from analog cameras and output to tape.
- On-board 1394 input/output interface performs digital transfers to and from DV tape. Device control and batch capture support are included.
- 48 kHz stereo audio input/output genlocked to video ensures perfect lip-sync.
- MPEG-2 output supports distribution applications such as DVD and CD authoring.
- RealVideo, Windows Media, and Quicktime outputs let you prepare your program for web video streaming.

Advanced Productivity Tools
Matrox RT2000 includes a variety of unique productivity tools to save you countless hours in the editing suite.
• Matrox Infinite Capture ™ overcomes the 2 GB AVI file size limit of Video for Windows and the 4 GB file size limit of the FAT32 file system used in Windows 98 by providing seamless capture and playback of video clips of unlimited size from within Adobe Premiere.
• Accelerated print-to-disk quickly puts your realtime sequences into a DV or MPEG-2 file for storage, archiving, DVD authoring, etc.
• Accelerated image transfer of video frames to system memory over AGP increases performance of host-based software effects.
• Versatile Video-for-Windows software codec lets you read and write RT2000-compatible AVI files without having an RT2000 installed in your system. This means you can create and manipulate RT2000 AVI files on another computer using popular compositing and 3D animation packages such as After Effects and 3D Studio MAX.
• 1394 interface software provides camera/VTR control to facilitate frame-accurate clip logging, batch capture, and print-to-tape.
• Realtime audio and video preview during DV capture lets you hear and see your material exactly as it is recorded onto your hard disk.
• Hard disk benchmark utility ensures optimal system performance.

Complete Hardware and Software Bundle
The Matrox RT2000 bundle includes the RT2000 codec card, the Matrox Millenium Flex 3D Edition graphics accelerator, an attractive audio/video breakout box, and a complete content creation software suite – Adobe Premiere for realtime editing, Inscriber TitleExpress for professional titling, Pixélan Video SpiceRack Lite for organic transitions, Ulead Cool 3D for 3D text creation, Sonic Foundry ACID Music for audio editing, and Sonic DVDit! LE for DVD authoring.
The Matrox Millennium Flex 3D Edition graphics accelerator has been optimized to provide a high-performance console with a video-in-a-window display. It has 32 MB of SGRAM and a 300-MHz Ramdac. This unique graphics card has been optimized for video applications and for Flex 3D. An additional graphics display adapter is not required in the system so there are no compatibility hassles.

Adobe Premiere
The Matrox realtime plug-in for Adobe Premiere lets you take full advantage of the powerful RT2000 hardware. Choose from a wide variety of realtime 2D and 3D filters and transitions with customizable drop shadows, soft edges, and color borders. Get instant feedback – the Matrox plug-in provides ultra-responsive scrubbing and realtime preview and playback on your video monitor and desktop display. You even get transparency control from within Premiere.

Inscriber TitleExpress
The addition of Inscriber TitleExpress to the RT2000 software bundle gives editors the tools to create professional, television-quality titles quickly and easily. A new plug-in for Adobe Premiere, TitleExpress provides more than 170 pre-designed titling templates, over 150 pre-designed text styles, and full support for all True Type fonts. Users can also customize titles with complete control over text placement, kerning, width, leading and slant. In addition to the templates provided, TitleExpress also lets users create their own title pages, import background images and produce credit rolls and crawls.

Pixélan Software Video SpiceRack Lite
Pixélan Video SpiceRack Lite gives you over 150 realtime organic transitions that are accessible from the Matrox realtime plug-in for Adobe Premiere. Click here for more information on upgrade opportunities from Pixélan. (PDF format, 406 KB)

Sonic Foundry ACID Music
ACID Music is the fastest and easiest way to create custom license-free music for your RT2000 projects. The package includes many high-quality, cutting-edge loops to give you unprecedented creative flexibility.

Sonic DVDit! LE
Sonic DVDit LE! is the easiest way to publish digital video on DVD. You capture and edit video in realtime using Adobe Premiere RT. Then drag and drop your edited video sequences, audio clips, graphics, backgrounds, and buttons into DVDit! LE. With its intuitive user interface, lightning-quick operation and high- powered formatting engine, DVDit! LE lets you easily create DVD-Video and DVD-ROM titles that play back on your set-top or PC-based player. Now, with an affordably-priced DVD-Recordable device on your desktop, DVD is the perfect distribution format for any video program.

Ulead Cool 3D
Cool 3D lets you create stunning full-screen 3D animated titles, alpha-channeled TGA images and sequences, and full-motion AVI movies for your RT2000 projects. Add finishing touches to your videos with an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface where you can apply special effects, textures, and bevels to your text and logos.

Matrox RT2000 Specifications

General
PCI interface RT2000 3/4 size PCI codec card
AGP interface Matrox Millennium Flex 3D Edition 32MB AGP 2x/4x card
Regulatory compliance FCC Class B, CE Mark Class B

Video Features

Inputs
1394 6-pin composite video (CVBS), RCA jack S-video (Y/C), mini-DIN NTSC, PAL, and SECAM

Outputs
1394 6-pin composite video (CVBS), RCA jack S-video (Y/C), mini-DIN NTSC and PAL

Video formats
ITU-R601 YUV 4:2:2 NTSC: 720x480 at 30 frames/sec PAL/SECAM: 720x576 at 25 frames/sec

Video overlay
programmable NTSC and PAL video-in-a-window support on console at 60/50 fields/sec

Audio Features
Genlock to video SMPTE-272M and AES11-1991 compliant
Analog audio I/O unbalanced stereo I/O (1pair RCA in, 1 pair RCA out)
Sampling method 16 bit, 48 kHz, 64X oversampling

Video Codec
Multi-format C-Cube DVxpress-MX25 codec supports single stream capture and dual-stream playback DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, NTSC 4:1:1, PAL 4:1:1 and 4:2:0 MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-Frame from 10 to 25 Mbps MPEG-2 MP@ML output

Matrox RT2000 bundle contents

Matrox RT2000 codec card
Adobe Premiere
Matrox Millennium Flex 3D Edition graphics card
Adobe Photoshop LE
Breakout box and cable
Inscriber TitleExpress
1394 cable (6 feet, 6 pin to 4 pin)
Matrox DVD Player
CD audio cable
Pixélan Video SpiceRack Lite
Installation & driver CD
Sonic Foundry ACID Music
Installation & User Guide
Sonic Solutions DVDit! LE
Installation poster
Ulead Cool 3D s