Matrox Announces Matrox RT.X2 Professional Realtime Native HDV and DV Editing Platform

[Adam Fischer]

Any idea where to buy this and what it will cost? I have been waiting patiently for them to release a new RT system for Production Studio so I can upgrade software and finally but some hardware all at once. Now that it’s here I want to get my hands on this thing! When you click “Where to buy” on their website it gives you the number for their corportate offices, but they’re closed for the day.

[Lloyd Coleman]

I see it on the http://www.videoguys.com site. Pre-orer price is $1,995.00

[Tom Maloney]

Well I have been hovering and waiting to upgrade my Adobe products and waiting for Matrox to issure an update for the RTX100. Now they want me to buy a complete new card for $1900 ? They keep saying they are going to have a new release for the 100, but I am sure this card will be discontinued next year and leave us all stranded. Amy of you own the RT100 card, what are you going to do ? Would appreciate any ideas from you. Don’t get me wrong , the card and software work fine. No complaints on the product , just sounds like its going to be dropped

thanks
Tom

[Bill Mccallum]

Nothing new, Canopus pulled the same stunt with DVStorm.

[Craig Howard]

I sold mine last week and do not miss it or the indiosynchratic behaviour a bit. I never even installed the drivers for PremPro 2.

I bet the new card still insists on the “wrong” field order because the ‘Blue Book’ says so.

I have now thoroughly tested PremPro 2 (Matrox Free) and I am rapt in the performance and stability and of course everything else works – eg safe titles, and zoomeable monitors etc

[Tom Maloney]

Thanks for the comeback Craig, so you do not miss the realtime effects? You are now just running Premiere correct ? As o my earlier post I just can’t seeing having to spend that for a new card and sit here with the old rtx100

thanks again

Tom

[Dave Friend]

I believe that is the bundled with PPro price. I have not found an unbundled price yet. RTX100 owners can get a $200 rebate when they turn-in their old board.

The show-stopper for me is the lack of 24p or HDV 720p support.

[Steve Freebairn]

I sold my on ebay for about 600 and upgraded my system to a dual core. It is so much better now, I don’t regret getting rid of the card. It was good back in the day, when computers weren’t nearly as fast, but the whole “we scale with the power of your CPU” stuff doesn’t seem to be so true, I’ve used a RTX100 on a dual xeon system and it did worse than on my single P4. This new card doesn’t even do 24P in HD. I would go with the axio, or I wouldn’t go at all. On a dual core computer, software editing of HDV works just fine.

[Steve Freebairn]

I forgot to put “RTX100” after I sold my… oops

[Gary Bettan]

The RTX100 has drivers available for Premeire Pro 2 https://www.matrox.com/video/products/rtx100xtremepro/rt_adobe20.cfm

While these are not offical release drivers, we can report that our customers are gettign very good results. For those planning on sticking with DV it’s still a great card.

In the USA Matrox will be offering a $200 trade-in rebate for RTX100/RT2500/RT2000 cards. You buy the product from your dealer for $1,995 and he gives you $200 off when you turn in the old card.

The RT.X2 is basically the Axio technology launched at last years NAB moving down stream. We hope to have a comparison chart of Axio/ Axio LE / RT.X2 features & perfomance from Matrox shortly. Those going to NAB will be very happy they stopped by the Matrox booth to get a first havd look at the RT.X2

Gary
https://www.videoguys.com/rtx2.html