User guide

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Chapter 1, Introducing Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme
Welcome
Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme gives you access to many unique professional features
that are not available on any other video editing card in its class. Its unique
architecture incorporates “The Power of X,” which leverages the scalable power
of your CPU with the explosive performance of dedicated hardware for the
ultimate realtime video editing experience.
Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme features
• Adobe Premiere like you’ve never seen it before— better capture tools, full-
quality turbo-charged editing, and faster export.
• Realtime DV-1394, composite, and S-Video input and output.
• Realtime SinglePass DV scan and capture.
• Realtime MPEG-2 capture and export for DVD authoring.
• Realtime advanced color correction and RGB gain/offset colorization.
• Professional vectorscope and waveform monitors.
• Realtime chroma and luma keying.
• Realtime adjustable speed control with blended-field processing for super-
smooth slow or fast motion.
• Realtime Matrox Flex 3D effects, such as 3D DVEs, blurs, page curls, and
many more.
• Freedom to combine and keyframe many effects in real time, at full quality.
• XtremePreview for editing many layers and effects without rendering.
• Hardware-accelerated simultaneous batch encoding of DVD, VCD, SVCD,
multimedia, and web formats.
• Video capture using Video for Windows programs.
• Output to NTSC or PAL video monitor when using supported animation,
compositing, and DirectShow applications (including Windows Media
Player).
• Professional DVD authoring with Sonic ReelDVD Studio and creation of
simple DVD projects with Sonic DVDit! SE.