Overview
Sleek high-spec video I/O unit for your PC or Mac. Capture and output via HDMI, analogue component, S-Video, and composite. Realtime hardware video resolution scaling. Easily edit AVCHD footage by capturing via HDMI into an edit-friendly compressed or uncompressed format.
Choose (from the option dropdown above) between a PCIe x1 host adapter for PC desktop and Mac Pro systems or an ExpressCard adapter for MacBook Pro and PC laptops.
MAX Technology - In addition to the features of the standard MXO2 Mini this unit includes dedicated hardware for faster than realtime H.264 encoding for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD (making it ideal for Blu-ray or Mobile/Web video production workflows).
Details
Don't settle for an HDMI and Analogue I/O card with messy cables when you can get all the features and more in a professional breakout box with Matrox MXO2 Mini.
This sleek little device for PC and Mac also gives you the added advantage of portability. You can take it with you wherever you go. Use it with a laptop or a desktop system and your favorite applications including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop, and many more.
Capture via HDMI, analogue 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. Playback high definition and standard definition video simultaneously. Turn your HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with Matrox's unique color calibration tool. Easily edit AVCHD footage by capturing via HDMI into an edit-friendly compressed or uncompressed format.
Matrox MAX Technology
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.
Inexpensive HDMI monitoring with 10-bit 4:2:2 color precision
This one feature is reason enough to buy Matrox MXO2 Mini. It turns your HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with 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
High quality 10-bit hardware scaling at an amazing price
There is no other device near this price point that lets you adapt to any delivery format your clients demand. Matrox MXO2 Mini's dedicated 10-bit hardware scaling engine provides high-quality scaling on capture and playback in the formats you need, no matter what you started with.
- HD to SD downscaling: Matrox MXO2 Mini provides realtime HD to SD downscaling with proper conversion of the HD color space to the SD color space and proper aspect ratio conversion to anamorphic, letterbox, and center cut. You can monitor or record an SD master of your HD project in real time.
- SD to HD upscaling: Matrox MXO2 Mini provides realtime SD to HD upscaling with proper conversion of the SD color space to the HD color space. MXO2 will "pillarbox" 4:3 footage and scale 16:9 SD footage to full screen.
- Cross conversion: Matrox MXO2 Mini offers realtime cross conversions from 720 to 1080 and 1080 to 720.
Simultaneous HD and SD output
Matrox MXO2 Mini lets you view and record your projects in HD and SD at the same time. You can select to simultaneously playback HD or SD on the HDMI output and HD or SD on the analogue output. This is a real time saver if you are delivering in multiple formats.
Editing workflows for PC
On the PC, Matrox MXO2 Mini lets you capture to uncompressed or to the highly-efficient Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame HD/SD codec from either the analogue or HDMI input. This means you can capture (via HDMI) and easily edit AVCHD material which otherwise can be difficult to work with.
As an added benefit, Matrox MXO2 Mini includes Matrox A/V Tools, an easy-to-use application for fast capture and playback of your audio/video assets. This stand-alone application is ideal when all you need to do is quickly capture video for web streaming or DVD authoring. Matrox A/V Tools also lets you grab frames from your video and save them as TGA files.
Matrox MXO2 Mini works with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on the PC and provides WYSIWYG support for popular applications such as Adobe Encore CS4, Photoshop CS4, and After Effects CS4; Autodesk Combustion; and NewTek LightWave 3D (32-bit versions only).
Editing workflows for Mac
On the Mac, Matrox MXO2 Mini lets you capture from either the analogue or HDMI input to uncompressed video or to compression formats supported by Apple Final Cut Pro including ProRes. This means you can capture (via HDMI) and easily edit AVCHD material which otherwise can be difficult to work with.
Matrox MXO2 Mini works with Final Cut Pro, Apple Color, Adobe After Effects, and all QuickTime applications that support the V-out component.
