This slick little box gives you HDMI and Analog Component Video I/O for Mac or PC via a single PCIe connection and delivers Matrox Max faster than realtime H.264 encoding. I've searched up some vendors to buy the MXO2 Mini and found several that sell them for quite cheap: Matrox MXO2 Mini HDMI and Analog I/O for MAC/PC - No Controller: MXO2MINI/NC at BEST PRICE-- around $350.00 CDN! Oct 2, 2012 - It also offers HDMI monitoring and highly accelerated H.264 video encoding. Of its functionality, you can connect an analog component deck into the input side. I set up the MXO2 LE MAX on a Mac Pro desktop running OS X Lion. Now supports Matrox MXO2 LE and Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O devices.
Matrox MXO2 LE with Max - Thunderbolt gives you all the features of a high-quality capture card and a breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity. It's got connections for both professional audio and video, including an input and output each for HD HDMI, component video, composite video, and Y/C (S-Video); for audio, there's dual XLR ins and outs as well as stereo analog audio I/O.
In addition, you've got an HD/SD-SDI input and two such outputs. Your options for high-quality monitoring couldn't be more versatile. And of course, this MXO2 LE box includes a Thunderbolt adapter, which supplies the blazing-fast connection to a computer for a data transfer rate of up to 10 Gb/s. Along with broadcast-quality audio & HD video input and output, the MXO2 LE provides calibration controls that include blue-only. You also benefit from a wide variety of HD and SD workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro thanks to Matrox MXO2 LE's 10-bit hardware up/down/cross-conversion scaling engine and support for a wide variety of file-based formats and industry-standard codecs. Matrox MAX is a unique technology that implements faster than real-time H.264 encoding for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD.
It uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 fi les for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Quality and flexibility are ensured through direct integration with professional applications such as Apple Compressor and Telestream Episode on the Mac, Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro on the PC. Requires a Thunderbolt cable. NEW Features for PC (v5.5).
Support for Adobe CS5.5 (Premiere Pro 5.5, Media Encoder 5.5, Encore 5.1, After Effects 10.5, and Photoshop 12.1). Support for Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit systems only (Professional, Ultimate, or Home Premium). Stability and performance improvements, including new Matrox RS-422 device control settings for frame-accurate export to tape. Additional 1080p support. For example, you can capture from 1080p/PsF @ 23.98 fps, 1080p @ 24 fps, 25 fps, 29.97 fps, and 30 fps sources, and edit 1080p @ 24 fps and 30 fps sequences in Adobe Premiere Pro. Closed captioning support for playing back Matrox sequences in Adobe Premiere Pro on Matrox MXO2, MXO2 Rack, and MXO2 LE.
New functionality for Adobe Premiere Pro Multi-Camera workflows. You can choose between single-camera preview (active camera only) and quad-camera preview (all four camera previews) on your video monitor.Support for streaming live video and audio with Matrox MXO2 products.
For example, you can select any video and audio source connected to the MXO2 inputs as your A/V sources for use with Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder, scale the incoming video to the streaming format that you want using the MXO2 hardware scaler, and stream the live video and audio to a public distribution website or your dedicated IP hosting site. Matrox RT technology is now supported on all MXO2 products, with or without Matrox MAX technology.
This means that MXO2 users without Matrox MAX or a CompressHD card can now take advantage of Matrox RT technology for real-time Matrox effects and acceleration of many Adobe Premiere Pro effects. Matrox WYSIWYG support for the 64-bit version of NewTek LightWave 3D 9.6, and the 32- and 64-bit versions of LightWave 3D 10. Improvements to the Matrox MAX H.264 Capture application, and this application is now supported using MXO2 hardware with a Matrox CompressHD card.
New Matrox MAX H.264 presets are available for encoding in Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Encore, and for capture using the Matrox MAX H.264 Capture application. NEW Features for MAC (v2.3.2). Support for Avid Media Composer v5.5.3 on MXO2 Mini and MXO2 Mini with MAX. Support for Final Cut Pro 7.0.3.
Mxo2 Mini Hdmi And Analog I/o For Mac Pro
Support for OSX Lion 10.7.1. Support for Premiere Pro 5.5.1. Fix for MAX functionality in Adobe Premiere Pro. Updates to address specific customer issues and improve overall stability. NEW Features for MAC (v2.3).
Support for Mac OS X Lion v10.7. Added closed captioning workflow support for web deliverables (.mov) using Matrox MAX technology in Apple Compressor. When an SCC (CEA-608) closed caption file is associated with your source media file in Compressor, Matrox MAX technology now embeds the closed caption data to the encoded video file when encoding at 1:1, or when downscaling. Updates to address specific customer issues and to improve overall stability. NEW Features for MAC (v2.2.3). Support for Adobe CS5.5 (Premiere Pro 5.5, Encore 5.1, After Effects 10.5, and Photoshop 12.1), and Soundbooth 3.0 only.
Mxo2 Mini Hdmi And Analog I/o For Mac Computer
Supports live streaming of MXO2 A/V inputs using Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2, Telestream Wirecast 4.0.1, and QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5.3. Updates to address specific customer issues and to improve overall stability. UPC: Specifications.