Matrox has introduced the Axio LE, the newest in their Axio line of products designed specificially for HD and SD editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. I’m just going to cut and paste the main features here because they are all worth mentioning:
- Full-resolution multi-layer realtime editing of HD and SD video, graphics, and effects
- Realtime CPU-based effects such as color correction, speed changes, and chroma/luma keying
- Realtime and accelerated Matrox Flex effects such as 2D/3D DVE, blur/glow/ soft focus, and shine
- Uncompressed 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
- Realtime playback of SD clips in a 1080i HD timeline
- Realtime mixed-format multi-cam
- 24 fps editing in HD and SD with pull down and reverse pull down
- Accelerated export to DVD, multimedia formats including Flash Video, and Adobe Clip Notes
- WYSIWYG for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, and NewTek LightWave 3D
- DV-1394, composite, Y/C, HD/SD analog component, and HD/SD SDI input and output
- Realtime high-quality downscaling from HD to SD
- Simultaneous HD and SD output
- 2-in/6-out AES/EBU audio, 2-in/6-out XLR audio, 2-in/6-out SDI embedded audio, 1/4″ output jack for stereo monitoring
Salivating yet? Imagine all this for the price of $4,995.
