Digital Video Editing

Matrox DigiSuite MAX is a new line of editing platforms that incorporate realtime 3D DVE powered by the innovative new Matrox Flex 3D architecture. The Matrox DigiSuite MAX platforms deliver maximum editing power and creative freedom with more realtime features than any other on the market. They feature fully keyframeable realtime 3D effects and transitions, an additional 2D effects channel, two YUV color correction channels, independent transparency control on all layers, 32-bit animated graphics, two advanced chroma/luma/matte keyers, and a customizable wipe/tile generator. DigiSuite MAX also brings other important benefits to streamline editing workflow and let users deliver in record time on tape, CD, DVD, and the web.

"Matrox DigiSuite MAX builds on the award-winning technology of the Matrox DigiSuite product line that has earned its reputation for quality and stability in over 25,000 broadcast, post-production, and corporate video facilities worldwide," said Spiro Plagakis, Matrox vice president of sales and marketing. "The DigiSuite MAX platforms offer a major creativity and productivity boost to professional editors, at a very affordable price."

Key Features of DigiSuite MAX

• Advanced realtime effects layering on video and graphics
• Realtime broadcast-quality 3D digital video effects powered by Matrox Flex 3D - page curls, distortions, and perspective effects with drop shadows, soft edges and color borders
• Choice of native-DV, DV50, MPEG-2 I-frame 50 Mbps, or M-JPEG editing
• 1394, analog component, Y/C, and composite support
• Optional SDI and AES/EBU add-on module
• DV acquisition and print-to-tape
• Realtime MPEG-2 encoding for DVD authoring
• Accelerated MPEG-1 encoding for multimedia and Video CD authoring
• Hardware-assisted web video encoding - RealVideo, Windows Media

Availability

Three Matrox DigiSuite MAX platforms will be available in Summer 2001. They all share the same realtime editing and 3D effects architecture and advanced productivity tools. They all provide broadcast-quality analog video and audio I/O, as well as optional SDI I/O, and are compatible with all standard video equipment. They all provide DV acquisition and print-to tape as well as realtime MPEG-2 output. They differ only in terms of the compression formats used for editing.

About Matrox Flex 3D

Matrox Flex 3D is a fully programmable architecture that applies 3D texture mapping to video in real time using a Matrox 3D graphics accelerator chip and graphics memory. Motion video or graphics are treated as source textures and mapped onto polygon-based 3D shapes such as page curls, perspectives, and distortions. Broadcast-quality effects are achieved using special features that are built into the 3D-accelerator chip and exploited through the Flex 3D architecture.

About Matrox

Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, and web streaming applications. In 2001, Matrox is celebrating 25 years of continuous innovation and an Emmy award in recognition of outstanding achievement in pioneering development of full-motion broadcast-quality PC video and compression plug-in cards. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong.

Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., 1055 St. Regis Blvd, Dorval, PQ H9P 2T4. Tel: 514-685-2630; Fax: 514-685-2853.