Matrox® Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of Matrox Mojito™ MAX™, an SDI/HDMI/analog HD/SD video and professional audio I/O card that includes an onboard Matrox MAX H.264 encoding accelerator.

Not only does Matrox Mojito MAX provide broadcast-quality input and output for leading editing apps including Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium, Apple® Final Cut Studio® and Final Cut Pro® X, as well as the new Avid® Media Composer® 6, it also lets users deliver H.264 files for the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray up to five times faster than software alone without sacrificing quality. Other important features packed into this ¾-length PCIe card include 10-bit hardware scaling and inexpensive HD monitoring with the unique Matrox HDMI Calibration Utility.

“The time-saving benefits of our unique MAX H.264 accelerator have been long appreciated by users of our portable MXO2 I/O devices, but many customers have been asking for an economical card for Mac Pro® and PC workstations that can do the same job,” said Alberto Cieri, senior director of sales and marketing at Matrox. “Mojito MAX nicely addresses the need for a single-slot card with SDI, HDMI, and analog I/O plus H.264 encoding speed and quality — all at a breakthrough price point.”

SDI/HDMI/analog HD/SD video and professional audio I/O card with Lightning fast H.264 encoding too!

Not only does Matrox Mojito MAX give you broadcast-quality input and output for your favorite editing app, it also turbocharges your H.264 encoding for deliveries to the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray – in a single ¾-length PCIe card.

Only Matrox I/O devices deliver H.264 video up to 5 times faster without sacrificing quality

If you’re delivering H.264 content for the web, mobile devices, Apple TV, and Blu-ray discs, you know how painful it can be to wait for the long encoding times needed to create high-quality video files using software only. You might even be tempted to sacrifice quality for speed. With Matrox Mojito Max, you no longer need to even consider making that trade off.

Get the most from your favorite apps
Matrox Mojito MAX amplifies your productivity with all the industry’s leading editing and content creation software for Mac and PC, as well as a wide variety of H.264 encoding, Blu-ray authoring, and streaming applications.

All the I/Os you need
Matrox Mojito MAX gives you a full range of professional audio and video inputs and outputs, genlock, RS-422 machine control and 5.1/7.1 surround sound monitoring on the HDMI output.

Realtime 10-bit hardware scaling
Deliver projects in all the formats your clients demand. Matrox Mojito Max provides high-quality up/down/cross conversion on capture and output.

Inexpensive HD monitoring
The unique Matrox HDMI Calibration Utility lets an HDMI monitor perform like a broadcast HD/SD monitor with 10-bit 4:2:2 color precision.

Free Matrox productivity apps
A variety of free software tools are included with every Matrox Mojito MAX card. Matrox Vetura Capture and Vetura Playback for Mac and Matrox A/V Tools for PC support tape-based workflows. These apps let you quickly and easily capture and playback video and still frames for use with any NLE. Matrox MAX H.264 Capture for PC lets you capture directly to H.264 files for the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray.

Matrox RT engine
The Matrox RT engine provides full-resolution, full-frame rate, full-quality, multi-layer, realtime video editing for Adobe Premiere Pro editors on the PC. It provides many of the benefits of GPU acceleration but works with any system, even laptops. You also get realtime Matrox Flex CPU effects such as primary and secondary color correction, smooth speed changes, and many more. A high-quality, highly-efficient MPEG-2 I-frame intermediate codec streamlines working with CPU-taxing footage such as AVCHD and XDCAM.

Closed captioning
Matrox Mojito Max supports closed captioning workflows with Final Cut Pro on the Mac and Adobe Premiere Pro on the PC.

Stream from any camera, anywhere
Matrox Mojito Max is a convenient capture device for streaming live events. Choose your favorite app – Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder, Microsoft Expression, QuickTime Broadcaster, or Telestream Wirecast. Connect to any HD or SD video source via HDMI or analog.

3D production and post
Matrox Mojito Max can be used in a variety of scenarios to assist cost-conscious content creators in 3D stereo production and post. Three popular workflows supported by Matrox Mojito Max include: live 3D monitoring on set, quick creation of 3D dailies, and monitoring/editing 3D projects.