Most powerful realtime engine for HD and SD editing for Adobe Premiere

Overview
Matrox Axio makes Adobe Premiere Pro the foremost realtime HD and SD editor for demanding broadcast and post-production environments. It features no-render HD and SD finishing in a wide range of compressed and uncompressed formats, superior color correction tools, advanced realtime effects, and a full complement of analog and digital audio and video inputs and outputs. It incorporates Matrox Power of X and Flex 3D technologies to leverage CPU and GPU power to provide the ultimate SD and HD editing environment.
The Matrox Axio family builds on solid expertise gained over several generations of Matrox DigiSuite and RT Series products. Well over 200,000 users worldwide currently enjoy the amazing value, stable reliability, and superior productivity of Matrox based realtime nonlinear editing systems. Close collaboration between the Matrox and Adobe engineering teams throughout development ensure the tightest hardware/software integration.
The Matrox Axio software and hardware components are integrated into an approved workstation and sold through a network of Matrox authorized resellers. These resellers also provide installation and training services to customers worldwide.
There are two Matrox Axio platforms to choose from, Matrox Axio HD and Matrox Axio SD. Both offer ultra high performance editing in all HD and SD formats. They differ only in terms of the editing codecs supported and the audio and video inputs and outputs provided on the interchangeable breakout boxes.
Features
Matrox Axio key features
"The Power of X" advantages
Makes Adobe Premiere Pro the foremost HD and SD editor for broadcast and post
Guaranteed full quality, full frame rate, full resolution playback at up to 1080i at 29.97 fps
At least 2 layers of uncompressed HD video plus 2 layers of graphics in real time, with effects*
At least 4 layers of uncompressed SD video plus 6 layers of graphics in real time, with effects*
Realtime primary and secondary color correction with shot-to-shot color matching
Realtime multi-camera, 3D DVEs, chroma/luma keying, speed changes, blur/glow/soft focus, and much more
Uncompressed HD and SD editing
Native HDV and DVCPRO HD editing
Compressed HD editing (offline and online finishing-quality MPEG-2 I-frame)
DV, DVCPRO, DV50, and MPEG-2 I-frame SD editing
Realtime mixing of HD codecs or SD codecs on the timeline
Realtime playback of SD clips in a 1080i HD timeline
24 fps editing in HD and SD with pull down and reverse pull down
Realtime high-quality downscaling from HD to SD
WYSIWYG for Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and 3ds Max, eyeon Fusion, and NewTek LightWave 3D
Matrox Axio LE Breakthrough price/performance in realtime HD and SD editing |
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Uncompressed 8-bit HD and SD editing |
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Relies on the power of your system GPU to process Matrox Flex effects |
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DV-1394, composite, Y/C, HD/SD analog component, and HD/SD SDI input and output |
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Simultaneous HD and SD output |
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2-in/6-out AES/EBU audio, 2-in/6-out XLR audio, 2-in/6-out SDI embedded audio, 1/4" output jack for stereo monitoring | |
Matrox Axio HD

Ultra high performance realtime HD and SD editing with HD I/O
Uncompressed 8- or 10-bit HD and SD editing
DV-1394, SD SDI, and HD SDI input and output
RGB and YPbPr analog component output
4-In/8-out AES/EBU balanced audio, 8-In/8-out SDI embedded audio
Matrox Axio SD

Ultra high performance realtime HD and SD editing with SD I/O
Uncompressed 8- or 10-bit SD editing
Uncompressed 8-bit HD editing
DV-1394, composite, Y/C, analog component, and SD SDI video input and output
2-In/2-out RCA and XLR audio, 8-In/8-out SDI embedded audio
Upgradeable to Matrox Axio HD by simply adding the HD breakout box