Matrox announces Xtreme trade-up programme

Matrox Video Products Group have announced that for a limited time Matrox RT2000 and RT2500 owners can trade-up to the RT.X100 Xtreme professional realtime video editing and DVD authoring platform.
Based on the ‘Power of X’ architecture, Matrox claim that RT.X100 Xtreme leverages scalable CPU power with the explosive performance of dedicated hardware to give users a new level of realtime productivity.
"Loyal Matrox customers can now benefit from many new workflow and productivity enhancements at an amazing price," said Spiro Plagakis, Matrox vice-president of sales and marketing.
"Features such as realtime DV and MPEG-2 encoding, advanced colour correction with professional waveform and vectorscope monitors, realtime super-smooth field-blended slow motion, and XtremePreview for editing many layers and effects without rendering, are a real boon to professional digital media creators."
Some of the key features of Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme are:

• Advanced realtime, 3-way, 18-parameter YUV colour correction plus 8-parameter RGB gain/offset colorisation
• Professional waveform and vectorscope monitors
• Realtime chroma and luma keying
• Realtime super-smooth, field-blended fast and slow motion
• Realtime pan & scan filter for aspect ratio conversion between 16:9 and 4:3
• Powerful realtime 3D technology for video, titles, and 32-bit graphics
• Realtime SinglePass DV scan and capture
• Realtime MPEG-2 capture and encoding for DVD authoring
• Realtime DV-1394, composite, and Y/C input and output
• Hardware-accelerated simultaneous batch encoding of DVD, SVCD, VCD, and web formats

The package also includes Sonic DVDit! SE for simple DVD creation and Sonic ReelDVD Studio for professional DVD authoring.
The Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme trade-up offer is available from authorised resellers worldwide until June 30, 2003.
There are two special trade-up versions of the Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme bundle, though neither includes Adobe Premiere 6.5.
Complete details regarding this promotion can be found on the Matrox web site at www.matrox.com/video
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