Matrox MXO2 and format conversion

[Andy Mees]

Will

The current drivers don’t support up/down/cross convert on capture … thats in the next release (amongst some other goodies!)
Shane’s been blogging about it already … read more at https://www.lfhd.com

Best
Andy

[Will Macneil]

Thanks, where’s that blog? The link comes up to a page on personal finance.

Thanks,

W

Will MacNeil
Film Editor
London

[Andy Mees]

Doh! sorry Will, quoting website addresses from memory there and that one was a bit of a longshot!
Shane’s blog post is here: https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2009/03/matrox-mxo2-early-observations.html

[David Roth weiss]

[Andy Mees] “The current drivers don’t support up/down/cross convert on capture … thats in the next release “

Interesting!!! The full-page Matrox ad I’m looking at in DV Magazine at this very minute claims, “You get realtime 10-bit up/down/cross conversion – in hardware – for the ulitimate in speed and quality.”

Humm, it sounds as if they just plumb forgot about those pesky missing drivers.

Given that Matrox has been notorious for slow driver development an delivery over the years, you guys might be in for a rather lengthy wait. Good luck!!!

David Roth Weiss
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[Shane Ross]

For the record it is http://www.LFHD.net. NET, not COM. COM was taken.

Yeah, the MXO2 upscales beautifully…surpassing my expectations. But I guess it is because I upconverted digibeta when I am so used to regular betaSP.

And David…their past record was bad, but that has all changed. They are now very quick with their updates. While now it only does pillar box, I know that they added anamorphic and that a release is due out for that update soon. No exact timeframe, but soon.

Shane

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[Jason Porthouse]

[Will MacNeil] “1. Convert PAL Anamorphic to PAL square 1024×576. I know this isn’t really a ‘format’ but I’d like to able to do this.”

There is no such thing… you’d be looking at a software conversion to do this. SD video is 720×576 (in PAL land), either anamorphic or not. The only way to get 1024×576 is to convert to a file – QT for instance. The Matrox (and Kona, Blackmagic et al) won’t do this as it’s not a video signal that any kit (monitor, VTR) would recognise. Use Compressor.

As to the upconversion – I know it can do it, but I am surprised to hear that the drivers aren’t available yet. Certainly not the impression I got from the Matrox engineers on the Broadcast Forum stand.

HTH

Jason

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[Baz Leffler]

[David Roth Weiss] “Interesting!!! The full-page Matrox ad I’m looking at in DV Magazine at this very minute claims, “You get realtime 10-bit up/down/cross conversion – in hardware – for the ulitimate in speed and quality.””

That statement is in fact correct – for playback, not for capture!

Baz

What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

[David Roth weiss]

[Baz Leffler] “That statement is in fact correct – for playback, not for capture! “

The devil’s in the details.

Oops, my bad…

David Roth Weiss
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[Shane Ross]

Well, NOW they support upscaling in capture as well.

Shane

GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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[Andy Mees]

Hey Jason
As per the specs, the up/down/cross has always been there for output. It’s up/down/cross on input that is currently being added to the drivers. Its looking good … loving my MXO2. Very active development is good. Not a new box, just new features!
Great stuff.
Andy