Matrox Video Products

Matrox Company LogoMatrox Video Products Group designs and manufactures a complete line of open-architecture, PC-based, broadcast-quality digital video hardware and Windows  development tools for the television broadcast, cable and post-production industries.  

For more than 24 years, Matrox has been a technology leader in the development of computer-based digital video hardware and software tools. A privately held company headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Matrox employs more than 1,400 people dedicated to the design, development, and manufacturing of strategic products in all areas of the communications world: video, graphics, imaging, and networking.

Demo Available
of RTX100, RTX2
with Premiere Pro

Matrox RT.X100



Important Notes for Matrox Owners - v4.2 driver release - Jan '10

Windows 7 is now with us, along with Premiere Pro CS4.2, and as usual this requires a new driver from Matrox to support their cards. The good news is that Matrox have now released the compatible version 4.2 drivers via their web site. These drivers are designed to work with Adobe's 4.2 & 4.21 updates to Premiere Pro CS4, which you should not install until you can install the Matrox 4.2 drivers at the same time.

If you are running Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, you are probably already aware that Adobe's 4.1.0 update introduced major issues with Axio and RT.X2 systems unless you also upgraded the Matrox drivers to the matching 4.1 version, which you must download from Matrox. Because Adobe have an automatic updater to download and install their updates, there's a danger that you might update Premiere without realising the consequences, and subsequently think your system has developed a fault due to the driver mis-match.

If you have already installed the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.1.0 update but not updated to Matrox's v4.1 drivers, you will loose transparency when using Matrox effects or videos containing alpha. You will also experience instabilities when using the Matrox chroma key and during rendering. Whilst we would recommend you install Matrox's v4.1 drivers, the other option is to revert back to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1. To do that, first uninstall Matrox Mx.tools or Axio.utils and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.1.0. Once the Matrox and Adobe software has been removed, re-install Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0 and then re-install the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1 update which is still available on the Adobe website. After the Adobe software is re-installed, re-install the original v4.0 Matrox Mx.tools or Axio.utils.

Matrox MXO family - The range of MXO I/O boxes are designed to work with Final Cut on the Mac (both Macbooks and MacPro), Premiere CS4/5 on the PC, and in the case of the Mini it can also be used for output monitoring within Avid Media Composer v5.

In all cases they serve as a portable breakout box with high quality analogue and digital video outputs. The MXO2 includes inputs as well as outputs and the range includes the following connection options:-

  • SD/HD-SDI with embedded audio (8ch)
  • HDMI with embedded audio (8ch)
  • YUV analogue component video
  • Y/C & Composite analogue video
  • Balanced audio (XLR)
  • Unbalanced audio (phono) for 5.1 surround monitoring
  • AES/EBU digital audio
  • SD/HD Genlock input

Matrox MAX - The MAX hardware is a faster-than-realtime H264 MPEG4 video encoder which is available as a PCI-Ex card (called CompressHD), or as a factory-fitted option to the MXO2 I/O boxes. Works alongside RTX2 with v4.2 drivers.

 Matrox MXO2 for Mac

 

Matrox CompressHD H264 card


Digisuite Family - More Information - Sample Systems - Matrox Video Products Web Site This product was discontinued at the end of 2005. However, we will continue to offer support for repairing and rebuilding systems hosting Digisuite cards.
 

AXIO LE - The successor to the Digisuite LE, the Axio LE supports both SD & HD, compressed or uncompressed, and can play different formats on the same timeline without re-rendering. It has support for HDV, XDCAM HD (MXF) & DVCProHD compression, as well as DV/DVCAM, DVCPro, DV-50 and MPEG2-Iframe compressed formats. It will also play back archive files captured by the Digisuite or Matrox RT cards, and can downconvert HD to SD in realtime. The breakout box includes input and output via SDI/HDSDI, component YUV, Y/C & composite video connections, and stereo audio in, six-channel audio out (for 5.1 monitoring) in either digital (AES/EBU) or analogue (bal XLR) formats.

The Axio provides a wide range of realtime effects when used with Adobe Premiere Pro 2 or CS3/4, and can be bought as hardware-only with drivers, or in a bundle with Premiere Pro CS4  Read More

Matrox Axio


Other video I/O solutions from ZEN -  Avid Xpress,  Bluefish, Decklink, Edius SD/HD, VelocityQ & VelocityHD 

Hard disk arrays for video storage - Huge Systems,  Medea   or call us to ask about other internal & external hard disks

Matrox RT.X2 PC edting system from ZEN Computer Services
One of four i7 920 - RT.X2 LE editing systems supplied to Wyke 6th Form College, with dual 23" LCD PC & TV monitors
Matrox RT.X2 video editing card & breakout box RT.X2 & RT.X100 - More Information - RTX2 Sample Systems The RTX100 has been discontinued and replaced by the RTX2 SD (Standard Def only) and the full RTX 2 (SD/HDV). Both are available as a hardware-only product to use with a stand-alone copy of Premiere Pro (or as part of an Adobe bundle like Production Studio), and the full RTX2 is also available in a bundle with Premiere Pro.

Note: Mx.tools version 2.0 is the final release for Matrox RT.X100. It does not support either Windows Vista or Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or Adobe CS3 Production Premium.

Note - all prices quoted on this site are UK pounds - ex VAT & delivery

ITEM PRICE (ex VAT)
Axio LE PCI-Ex hardware-only (card & breakout box) for use with Premiere Pro CS3/4 2,690.00
Axio LE PCI-Ex bundle (card,  breakout box and Premiere Pro CS3/4) 2,990.00
Matrox MXO for Mac - external SD/HD video output box 645.00
Matrox MXO2 Mini - PC or Mac versions - external SD/HD video I/O box with HDMI 335.00
Matrox MXO2 Mini MAX - PC or Mac versions - external SD/HD video I/O box with HDMI & h/w H264 encoder 640.00
Matrox MXO2 LE for PC/Mac - external SD/HD SDI video I/O box 725.00
Matrox MXO2 LE MAX for PC/Mac - external SD/HD SDI video I/O box with H264 h/w encoder 970.00
Matrox MXO2 for PC/Mac - external SD/HD SDI video I/O box with AES/EBU audio 1,050.00
Matrox MXO2 MAX for PC/Mac - external SD/HD SDI video I/O box with H264 h/w encoder 1,430.00
Matrox MXO2 Rack for PC/Mac - external rackmount SD/HD video I/O box 1,430.00
Matrox MXO2 Rack MAX for PC/Mac - external SD/HD video I/O box with H264 encoding h/w 1,690.00
Matrox Compress HD - PCI-Express card with H264 Encoder h/w 360.00
Matrox RT.X100 - used card & Breakout Box - see Car Boot Sale page as available
RT.X2 LE HDV hardware-only (card & breakout box) for use with Premiere Pro CS3/4 only 749.00
RT.X2 LE HDV bundle inc breakout box & Premiere Pro CS4 (+Encore/OnLocation)  see system prices 1,075.00
RT.X2 HDV hardware-only (card & breakout box) for use with Premiere Pro V2 & CS3/4  875.00
RT.X2 HDV bundle including breakout box & Premiere Pro CS4 (inc Encore & OnLocation)  1,199.00
RT.X2 SD hardware-only (card & breakout box) for use with Premiere Pro v2.0 & CS3/4 599.00

MXO2-MAX with RTX Loyalty Discount (until end of Sept '10)

 enquire for full details 
Matrox MXO2 LE MAX for PC/Mac (with loyalty discount) 870.00
Matrox MXO2 MAX for PC/Mac  (with loyalty discount) 1,175.00
Matrox MXO2 MAX Rack for PC/Mac  (with loyalty discount) 1,425.00

MATROX ACCESSORIES

   See Adobe Software prices here.
RS232-RS422 h/w converter (for VTR control) for use with Digisuite & Premiere Pro v2/CS3 55.00
ProVTR RS422 VTR Control plugin for Adobe PremierePro (1.0 & 1.5) and RT/RTX cards 140.00
High quality colour coded Adobe Premiere Pro keyboard (UK) 64.00

NOTE -  All Matrox Digisuite products and accessories are discontinued after December 2005

RTX-CVO

RTX Video output adaptor
Lost or damaged your RTX 100 breakout cable? Or need something simpler to just get a video output for monitoring? The RTX-CVO plugs directly into any Matrox RTX 10/100 card to give composite video out on a female BNC connector.

Price - 15.00

Note - all prices quoted on this site are UK pounds - ex VAT & delivery

 What we're about...    ZEN is not a traditional Audio-Visual dealer who started selling computers, nor is it a computer shop that also sells video editing systems. You won't get any salesmen giving you the "hard-sell" when you call, just straightforward advice and information - which for some callers is the knowledge that they don't need to buy whatever it is they thought they needed! Above all you'll be dealing with someone with a wide range of experience and knowledge of both PCs and video production. We're not the biggest, nor necessarily the cheapest, but we are one of the longest established computer/video specialists in the UK.

ZEN was started in the 1980s by Martin Kay, then working for ITV at Granada's Manchester studios, who built his first 6502-based computer in 1979 from an Ohio Scientific kit, bought in the USA whilst working on a shoot for World In Action. With the advent of the Amiga, which could be gen-locked to a video source, Martin wrote a variety of video-related software. This included subtitling & tele-prompting, ident clocks, scoring software for sports & gameshows, and specialist software to mimic other applications for use in drama film shoots like Cracker, Prime Suspect and A Touch of Frost. Martin left Granada in 1993 to concentrate on his computer-video activities with ZEN, following a natural path into non-linear editing systems, which is now the main focus. 

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