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Matrox Axio & Prem Pro Opinions
Greetings,
I’m considering making the switch from discreet edit to Premier Pro using Matrox Axio. Anyone out there working with this set-up? If so, are you happy? I do mostly long form; 5 minute corporate videos to hour long docs. Discreet edit was a wonderful thing.
For a while the trend was to migrate from discreet edit to Leitch Velocity Q or HD. Now they’re going by the wayside.
Big investment for me so I’ll take all the opinons I can get.
Thanks
RC
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2 Replies
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Axio offers a distinct step up in power over I/O card-based systems. It appears to be the best system currently for handling multiple real-time streams of native file formats like HDV, XDCAM HD, and DVCPRO HD. Axio’s native file support insures maximum image quality and minimum storage space requirements. Axio significantly cuts down on the need to render, and rendering and exporting are faster than on other systems due to a well tuned combination of CPU, GPU, and hardware acceleration.
Matrox has done a good job integrating its real-time effects controls into the Premiere and After Effects interface. The Matrox effects, besides being real-time, are a welcome addition to the Premiere and AE effects palette. The system is very stable, and comprehensive in its support of HD and SD formats and frame rates.
Axio’s HD power is multiplied in SD, with more tracks and effects possible in real-time.
Premiere, while it has a way to go before it tops the best of Edit’s features, is “good enough” for long form up to medium complexity, and excellent for shorter project, and effect heavy work. The integration with the other Adobe applications is fantastic, and the Adobe suite is much greater than the sum of it’s parts.
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This is good. This is what I’ve been hearing and reading.
Thanks so much for the response.
RC
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