Matrox Gold Dealer (since 2000)

Full RT.X2 systems built

(see sample prices)

Important Matrox Info - v5.0 public beta drivers for CS5, Aug '10

Matrox has released a public beta of the drivers which will support the RT.X2 under Adobe's CS5 version of Premiere Pro. Whilst they are useful for adding support to CS5 for the playback of Matrox AVIs containing HDV video (which requires the Matrox hardware for decoding), the drivers are far from bug-free and should not be considered to be "production-ready". They definite reduce the stability of CS5, and have various field-order issues with PAL SD video. 

V4.2 Drivers for RT.X2 with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 (v4.21) - now available from Matrox
also V5.0 Public Beta drivers for Adobe CS5

RT.X2 Key features

• Realtime multi-layer workflows that combine HD and SD material from analogue and digital sources  using RTX2

• Realtime Matrox Flex CPU effects - color correction, speed changes, chroma/luma keying and many more

• Realtime and accelerated Matrox Flex GPU effects - 2D/3D DVE, blur/glow/soft focus, shine and many more

• Native HDV and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame (up to 100Mb/s) HD editing

• Native DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, and MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame (up to 25Mb/s) SD editing

• Realtime mixing of HD codecs and SD codecs on any timeline

• Realtime mixed-format multi-cam on RTX2

• Realtime high-quality hardware downscaling for SD output from an HD timeline RTX2

• 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 with dynamic Alt+Tab switching

• Full-length PCI-Express card (uses 1x PCI-Ex slot). LE version is shorter.

• Breakout box includes Composite, Y/C, HD/SD analogue YUV component input and output

• Full-resolution HD monitoring on an inexpensive flat panel display via independent DVI output (NOT included on LE version)

• Bundle version includes Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

• Improved functionality within Premiere Pro (compared to RTX100) - VU input meters on capture and Voiceover recording now supported

• Version 2 drivers support Premiere Pro v2.0

• Version 3 drivers support Premiere Pro CS3

• Version 4 drivers support Premiere Pro CS4 - see below, or get more product info at Matrox's web site

 see our sample system configurations & prices

of RT.X2
with Premiere CS4

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.

Company history . . .      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 as a Sound Recordist on a film shoot for World In Action. With the advent of the Amiga, which could be gen-locked to a video source, Martin started writing a variety of video-related software. This included subtitling & tele-prompting, ident clocks, scoring software for sports & gameshows, and specialist software to mimic other computer displays for use in TV film dramas 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, now the main focus of the business, although he still maintains an active interest in video production.