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Over the last 25 years, Matrox has taken its place as leader and innovator in today’s hottest, most state-of-the-art technologies designing software and hardware solutions in the fields of Graphics, Video editing, Image processing and New business media.

The Matrox Axio family of realtime HD and SD editing platforms is designed to give you the highest finishing quality coupled with the most comprehensive realtime feature set at an affordable price point .

Matrox Axio makes Adobe Premiere Pro the foremost realtime HD and SD editor for demanding broadcast and post-production environments. It features no-render HD and SD finishing in compressed and uncompressed formats, superior color correction tools, advanced realtime effects, and a full range of analog and digital audio and video inputs and outputs. It incorporates Matrox Flex 3D and Power of X technologies to leverage scalable CPU power with the explosive performance of dedicated 3D graphics hardware to provide the ultimate SD and HD editing environment.

The Matrox Axio family builds on solid expertise gained over several generations of Matrox DigiSuite and RT Series products. Well over 200,000 users worldwide currently enjoy the amazing value, stable reliability, and superior productivity of Matrox based realtime nonlinear editing systems. Close collaboration between the Matrox and Adobe engineering teams throughout development ensure the tightest hardware/software integration.

The Matrox Axio software and hardware components are integrated into an approved workstation and sold through a network of Matrox authorized resellers. These resellers also provide installation and training services to customers worldwide.

There are two Matrox Axio platforms to choose from, Matrox Axio HD and Matrox Axio SD. Both offer ultra high performance editing in all HD and SD formats. They differ only in the audio and video inputs and outputs provided on the interchangeable breakout boxes.
Key features

Matrox Axio key features
• Makes Adobe Premiere Pro the foremost HD and SD editor for broadcast and post
• Guaranteed full quality, full frame rate, full resolution playback at up to 1080i at 29.97 fps
• At least 2 layers of uncompressed 10-bit HD video plus 2 layers of graphics in real time, with effects*
• At least 4 layers of uncompressed 10-bit SD video plus 6 layers of graphics in real time, with effects*
• Realtime primary and secondary color correction with shot-to-shot color matching
• Realtime 3D DVEs, chroma/luma keying, speed changes, blur/glow/soft focus, and much more
• Uncompressed 8- or 10-bit HD and SD editing
• Native HDV and DVCPRO HD editing
• Compressed HD editing (offline and online finishing-quality MPEG-2 I-frame)
• DV, DVCPRO, DV50, and MPEG-2 I-frame SD editing
• Realtime mixing of HD codecs or SD codecs on the timeline
• 24 fps editing in HD and SD with pull down and reverse pull down
• Realtime high-quality downscaling from HD to SD
Matrox Axio HD

Ultra high performance realtime HD and SD editing with HD I/O
• DV-1394, SD SDI, and HD SDI input and output
• RGB and YPbPr analog component output
• 4-In/8-out AES/EBU balanced audio, 8-In/8-out SDI embedded audio

Matrox Axio SD
Ultra high performance realtime HD and SD editing with SD I/O

• DV-1394, composite, Y/C, analog component, and SDI video input and output
• 2-In/2-out RCA and XLR audio, 8-In/8-out SDI embedded audio
• Upgradeable to Matrox Axio HD by simply adding the HD breakout box


*The Power of X Advantage: Realtime performance increases significantly with Dual-Core systems. Up to double the number of realtime layers!