The MX02 Mini HD/SD I/O Device from Matrox

This slick little box gives you HDMI and Analog Component Video I/O for Mac or PC via a single PCIe connection and delivers Matrox Max faster than realtime H.264 encoding. You can take it with you wherever you go. Use it with a desktop system and your favorite applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and many more.

Capture and playback high definition video via HDMI and analog component; or NTSC and PAL via analog component, S-Video, and composite. Convert your standard definition videos to high definition, or vice versa, while capturing or playing out, using Matrox MXO2 Mini's high-quality dedicated hardware.

Matrox MAX is a unique technology that implements faster than realtime H.264 encoding for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD. It uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Quality and flexibility are ensured through direct integration with professional applications such as Apple Compressor on the Mac and Adobe Media Encoder on the PC. As an added benefit, the Matrox MAX technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor.

Turn your HDMI screen into an inexpensive professional-grade video monitor with 10-bit 4:2:2 color precision via Matrox's unique color calibration tool. Controls for hue, chroma, contrast, brightness, and blue-only are provided. You get accurate color representation so that you can use your HDMI monitor even for color grading. Matrox MXO2 Mini provides 1:1 pixel mapping on HDMI displays that support this feature so your video will not be stretched and distorted by the monitor. You get accurate monitoring on your HDMI display in the following resolutions:
720 x 486 (NTSC)
720 x 576 (PAL)
1920 x 1080
1280 x 720

Features
Works with Mac and PC, laptops and desktops
Small, lightweight, external box that's easily connected to your cameras and monitors
Capture and playback high definition video via HDMI and analog component; or NTSC and PAL via analog component, S-Video, and composite
Turns your HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with color calibration tools including blue-only
High-quality 10-bit hardware scaling engine for realtime upscaling, downscaling, and cross conversion on capture and playback (See Specifications section for scaling features supported on Mac and PC)
Stereo RCA and up to 8 channels of HDMI audio input and output 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound monitoring on the HDMI output
Easily edit AVCHD footage by capturing into an edit-friendly compressed or uncompressed format
Works with your favorite applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and many more
Three-year hardware warranty and complimentary telephone support
Item Includes
Matrox MXO2 Mini input/output device
Matrox MXO2 PCIe cable (1 meter)
Matrox MXO2 Mini external power supply
Two S-Video adapters
Matrox MXO2 PCIe host ExpressCard/34 adapter (for use with MacBook Pro and PC laptops)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• upscale
• downscale
• hd/sd
• hd-sdi
• video
• professional
• editing
• final cut
• macbook
• laptop
• mac pro
• desktop
• adobe
• H.264
• markertek
• encoding
• PCIe

[movado242]

..and that's why i use CS5...

[ronineditor]

Everything I saw from Matrox, it seems so clean and easy... they don't tell you that you can't use it for 720 projects... but worse yet? It overrides your Avid's speakers' audio. Yeah. You'll get the 'pure joy' of only being able to listen to your Avid project through some tv speakers and not your own computer speakers. Unplug your Matrox, they work fine.

I just discovered this and tech support from Matrox verified this to be true. Awesome.

[kustomcougar]

Good for you homo