Matrox RT.X2 provides the realtime editing power and additional productivity tools you need to get the most from Adobe CS3 Production Premium. Whether you work in DV, HDV, P2 MXF, or a combination, you’ll find that RT.X2 goes far beyond the capabilities of software-only in all aspects of video production – capture, editing, content creation, and delivery. Matrox RT.X2 will save you time on every project, letting you concentrate on creating your best work and building your business.
To help you gauge the significance of RT.X2’s time-saving benefits, we have compared RT.X2 to Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software-onlyby providing a feature summary as well as performance measurements for some of the key tasks you do daily.
In all the comparison tests the same system was used:
Matrox RT.X2 lets you capture SD and HD video from analog as well as 1394 devices and fully monitor audio and video while you capture.
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The more realtime performance your editing system provides, the more time you can spend creating, not rendering. Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 alone, anything more than one layer of video gives a red bar on the timeline so it’s hard to tell what (if anything) is realtime and what is preview quality. Matrox RT.X2 always plays back at full quality, full frame rate and provides optional drop frame reporting so you always know what’s happening. It provides intelligent reporting of realtime capabilities with a threshold slider from aggressive to safe. The red bar does not show up unless, in fact, rendering is needed. You always know if your timeline will playback in realtime at full quality.
Matrox RT.X2 provides many additional productivity features, not available with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 alone, which can save you time and money.
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 always uses its best effort to play back your timeline, but software-only systems usually must degrade to preview quality and a reduced frame rate even in DV. Sometimes this may be good enough to make edit decisions but to see your project at full quality, you must render. Often you will render many times before you are happy with the final edit. To give you an idea of just how much time you can save with Matrox RT.X2, we compared performance on two DV timelines.
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HDV playback is more demanding than DV playback so in software-only systems the HDV playback frame rate is usually too slow to give adequate feedback for edit decision-making. The system will exhibit sluggish scrubbing as well. Editing in HDV typically requires lots of intermediate rendering. To give you an idea of just how much time you can save with Matrox RT.X2, we compared performance on two HDV timelines.
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Matrox RT.X2 significantly accelerates exports to all formats included in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. To give you an idea of just howmuch time you can save with Matrox RT.X2, we compared export performance to DVD, Adobe Clip Notes, and a DV file on disk for the DV timelines and the HDV timelines.
DV Export Tests
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Timelines Used in the Performance Tests
In software-only mode, Matrox effects were replaced with the Adobe equivalent. Matrox 3D DVEs were replaced with the Adobe Motion effect.
Multi-layer DV test 1-30 second timeline
Video 8: Single .psd file with alpha and Adobe motion scale
Video 7: Single .psd file with alpha and Adobe motion scale
Video 6: Single .tga file
Video 5: Multiple DV clips with Matrox 3D DVE and Matrox
color correction applied to each clip
Video 4: MPEG-2 clip (scaled to frame size) with Matrox chroma
key, Adobe black & white filter, and slow motion
Video 3: Single .tga file
Video 2: Single .tga file with alpha
Video 1: Automate to timeline from bin used with multiple
DV clips. All clips have Matrox color correction and all cuts use Adobe cross
dissolves (~5 to 10 second cuts)
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Multi-layer DV Test 2 – 7 Minute Timeline
Video 7: Single .psd
file with alpha and Adobe motion scale
Video 6: Single .tga with alpha (cut in two)
Video 5: One DV clip with Adobe motion scale and Adobe black
& white. One DV clip with Matrox chroma key and Adobe motion scale –
repeated
Video 4: One DV clip with Adobe motion scale and Adobe black
& white. One DV clip with Matrox chroma key and opacity fade in and out.
One DV clip with Matrox chroma key. One .tga. One DV clip with Matrox choma
key, Matrox soft focus, opacity, and slow motion.
Video 3: One DV clip with Adobe motion scale. Remaining DV
clips all have Matrox color correction and Adobe motion scale
Video 2: Two DV clips with Matrox color correction and Adobe
motion scale
Video 1: Automate to timeline from bin used with multiple
DV clips. All clips have Matrox color correction and all cuts use Adobe cross
dissolves (~5 to 10 second cuts)
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Multi-layer HDV test 3 – 30 second timeline
Video 5: Single
.tga file
Video 4: Single .tga file
Video 3: Three HDV clips with Matrox color correction and
Adobe motion scale
Video 2: One 14-second MPEG-2 clip with Matrox chroma key,
Adobe black & white and Adobe motion scale. One 3-second HDV clip with
Matrox color correction and Adobe motion scale. One 2-second HDV clip with
Matrox color correction and Adobe motion scale + Adobe cross dissolve into
one 3-second HDV clip with Matrox color correction Adobe motion scale. One
2-second HDV clip with Matrox color correction and Adobe motion scale. One
6-second MPEG-2 clip with Matrox color correction and slow motion
Video 1: One 9-second HDV clip with Matrox color correction.
One 5-second HDV clip with Matrox color correction. One 3-second HDV clip.
One 2-second HDV clip.
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Multi-layer test 4 - 5 minute timeline
Video 5: Single
.tga file
Video 4: Keyframed title with scale (zoom in and out)
Video 3: Single .tga file
Video 2: MPEG-2 clip with Matrox chroma key, HDV clip with
30% opacity – repeated over the sequence
Video 1: Automate to timeline from bin used with multiple
HDV clips. All clips have Matrox color correction and all cuts use Adobe cross
dissolves (~5 to 10 second cuts). Three clips have Matrox soft focus and three
clips have Adobe black & white - repeated 3 times over the sequence
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