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The Matrox RT2000 has been replaced by a new model, the RT2500 (On Sale $899.95)!! The RT2500 is a single card solution that includes MegaPack 3, Premiere 6 and more!! For more info about the RT2500 CLICK HERE!!



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A COMPLETE Realtime Editing, DVD Authoring, and Web Streaming Platform
Matrox RT2000 has more realtime features than any other video-editing card in its class. It's the ideal choice for corporate video producers, event videographers, and multimedia artists.

“REAL realtime” means you work with two video streams AND a 32-bit, uncompressed, animated graphics layer, simultaneously, in real time. On any of the three layers, you can add particle effects, 3D tile transitions, distortion effects, 2D and 3D DVE, and transparency effects – in real time, NO RENDERING!

The realtime editing power of RT2000 gives you the creative freedom to experiment. There’s no penalty for changing your mind. Everything happens instantly, at full online quality, and you see the results immediately on your PAL or NTSC monitor. It’s fast, it’s easy, and you get exactly the look you want, every time.

What’s more, Matrox RT2000 lets you work with all the input/output connections and formats you’ll need to get the most from your editing system. Capture from analog or DV tape. Edit once, then output anywhere. Deliver on tape, DVD, CD, and the web.

Matrox RT2000 gives YOU real time – to take on all the projects you’ve ever dreamed of, and still have a life outside the editing suite.

  • True THREE-LAYER realtime editing – two video layers plus a graphics layer – ALL in real time
  • Realtime broadcast-quality 3D effects on video or graphics powered by Matrox Flex 3D
  • Realtime native-DV and MPEG-2 editing
  • Analog and digital video input/output – Y/C, composite, 1394
  • MPEG-2 output for DVD and CD authoring
  • RealVideo, Windows Media, and Quicktime output for web video streaming
  • Integrated Matrox Millennium Flex 3D Edition graphics card drives your high-performance desktop
  • Stereo audio input/output genlocked to video ensures perfect lip-sync
  • Complete content creation software bundle

RT2000 now includes MEGA Pack 3.0 !!!

  • Highlights of RT2000 MEGA Pack 3.0 include:
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 support
  • Over 60 native Adobe Premiere transitions in real time
  • Adobe Premiere 6.0 audio mixer support
  • Realtime keyframeable colorization and crop settings
  • Realtime title preview with Inscriber TitleExpress
  • Matrox MediaTools 1394 scan and capture utility
  • 16:9 widescreen editing support

The MEGA Pack 3.0 software is also available to registered RT2000 owners as a free download, or on CD at a nominal shipping and handling charge.

Broadcast-Quality 3D Effects Powered by Matrox Flex 3D
Matrox RT2000 harnesses the power of Matrox Millennium graphics accelerator technology via the revolutionary new Matrox Flex 3D architecture to deliver realtime, broadcast-quality 2D and 3D digital video effects and transitions. With MEGA Pack, you get over 1,000 realtime filters and transitions including particle effects, 3D tiles, distortion effects, page curls, organic wipes and 2D and 3D DVEs. You can keyframe perspective settings such as rotation, size and position. The fact that Flex 3D is fully programmable means that additional effects can be easily added via supplementary software.

Mega Pack Keyframer
Mega Pack Keyframer lets you control exactly when your FX happen, where they happen and what motion paths you want to add - all in Real-Time!! The keyframer creates a mini timeline of the transition, allowing you to set points in the timeline that manipulate your FX. You set what you want the video to look like at these key points, and the software fills in the rest. Without keyframing you are not able to control where and when your FX and transitions take place.

With the RT2000 KeyFramer you can update these keyframe points in real-time and actually manipulate the different components of these effects with drag & drop ease. As an example, lets use a 10 second picture in picture effect. I set my in point at the upper right hand corner. 3 second into the video I want the PIP to fly onto the screen and expand to ¼ screen in the lower left hand corner. At 7 seconds I want to add a page-peel to the PIP and then have it flutter off the screen by second 10. With the RT2000 this is simple, easy and FAST. Since you don't have to spend time RENDERING, you can spend your time being CREATIVE! If you change your mind and you want to alter the movement of the fly-in, or go with a different 3D FX you can - IN REAL-TIME!! No other NLE product offers you this level of 3D FX and control for twice the price!!

Matrox Flex 3D Architecture
The revolutionary Matrox Flex 3D architecture gives you an unlimited variety of 2D and 3D digital video effects and transitions in real time, at the full quality level of conventional broadcast 3D DVE equipment, but at a small fraction of the cost. It also gives you much more creative freedom than competing products that only provide slow software rendered effects while you sit and wait.

Advanced Productivity Tools
Matrox RT2000 includes a variety of unique productivity tools to save you countless hours in the editing suite.

Native-DV Editing
Matrox RT2000 lets you take advantage of the full video-quality potential of your DV camera. Its built-in 1394 port lets you digitally transfer your DV material to your editing system in its native DV format. This way, you avoid recompression passes and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions that degrade the quality of your video.

Matrox RT2000 provides native editing for all DV formats including Panasonic DVCPRO, Sony DVCAM, Sony Digital-8, and the consumer DV format used by Sony, JVC, Canon, Sharp and Panasonic.

Versatile Analog and Digital Input/Output
Matrox RT2000 supports all the input/output connections you’ll need to get the most from your editing system.

Matrox RT2000 MAJOR PRICE DROP! $999.95


Matrox RT2000 Premiere 6.0/MegaPack in stock!!
  • New 3D FX including particle, distortion & tile transitions
  • Real-Time keyframer for increased creativity & productivity

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  • RT2000 $999.95
    DVDit! SE UP $249.95

    Total $1249.90

    Matrox Bundle 1a RT2000 & DVDit!SEUP Bundle 1 $1,199
    You save $50!!!

    Bundle 1b RT2000
    & DVDit!LEPEUP $1,599


    RT2000 $999.95
    Cleaner 5 $549.95

    Total $1549.90

    Matrox Bundle 2 RT2000 & Cleaner 5 Bundle $1,299
    You save $250!!!


    RT2000 $999.95
    VRAID4120SCSI $1499.00
    BorisFX $399.95

    Total $2898.85

    Matrox Bundle 3 RT2000 & VRAID4120 & BorisFX $2,499
    You save $400!!!

    RT2000 MEGA-CONTENT CREATION BUNDLE!


    RT2000 $999.95
    VRAID4120SCSI $1499.00
    Boris FX $399.95
    DVDit! SE UP $249.95
    Cleaner 5 $549.95

    Total $3698.85

    Matrox Bundle 4 RT2000 & VRAID4120 & BorisFX & DVDit!SE UP & Cleaner5 $2999
    You save $750!!!

    RT2000 named one of Videoguys' Top 10 New products of 2000!!!

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    Complete RT2000 Bundle includes:

    • RT2000 MPEG2 capture/playback card
    • Millenium G400 AGP graphics card w/
    • Break Out Box
    • DV/FireWire cable
    • Adobe Premiere 6.0 RT
    • RT2000 MegaPack
    • Title Express
    • Ulead Cool 3D
    • Sonic Foundry ACID Music
    • Sonic DVDit! LE
    • Inscriber TitleExpress

    RT2000 MEGA Pack (Matrox Video Tools v2.0) is here!!!!

    Matrox RT2000 MEGA Pack gives you over 600 new realtime effects powered by the revolutionary Matrox Flex 3D technology. Three entirely new classes of effects include particles, distortions, and 3D tile transitions. And what's more, realtime effects now feature keyframeable perspective settings for even more creative freedom.

    MEGA Pack also gives you a variety of new productivity tools, 1394 features, and other product enhancements. With the addition of this MAJOR upgrade (FREE to registered users) the RT2000 becomes even more powerful. For under $1,000 it is a phenomenal value. If you love 3D transitions and FX like I do, then RT2000 is the card for you!!!

    New Realtime 3D Effects

    MEGA Pack brings the total number of precreated effects to over 1000! You can use them as is,or as a starting point for your own complex creations using the new keyframeable perspectivesettings.

    Particle effects
    Realtime 3D particle effects include explosions, shatters, and shaped cut outs controlled byreal-world attributes such as gravity and dispersion. Particle effects can be used within AdobePremiere 6.0 as transitions and filters on video or graphics.

    Distortion effects
    MEGA Pack provides a wide variety of realtime distortion filters. Shimmers, waves, bevels, showerdoor effects, and many others can be applied to video or graphics in real time.

    3D tile transitions
    3D tile transitions slice video into a myriad of tile and slab patterns that rotate, flip, swirl, pivot,or spin in real time to reveal the next clip.

    Keyframeable perspective settings

    Click here to download the RT2000 MegaPack demo in streaming RealVideo!!
    RealVideo High Resolution (320 x 240 x 30 FPS) File Size: 11.82MB

    Matrox RT2000 Effect Setup Interface

    New Productivity Features

    RT2000 MEGA Pack includes a variety of new productivity tools to make your work faster and easier.

    Direct capture to MPEG-2 IBP format for DVD authoring

    Matrox File Converter utility
    The Matrox File Converter is an easy-to-use program for converting your MPEG-2 or DV video files and associated audio files to various formats. You can select any of the following conversion types:

    Matrox MPEG-2 IBP AVI + WAV to MPEG-2 Program (.mpg)
    Use .mpg files for distribution on the web, video servers, networks, etc.

    Matrox MPEG-2 (IBP or I-Frame) AVI to MPEG-2 Elementary (.m2v)
    Use .m2v files with DVD authoring programs that don't support Matrox MPEG-2 AVI files.

    Matrox DV AVI + WAV to VFW DV AVI
    Create single Video for Windows AVI files from Matrox DV AVI and associated WAV files so that you can easily use them in your Video for Windows programs.

    VFW DV AVI to Matrox DV AVI + WAV
    Split any Video for Windows DV AVI file to separate Matrox DV AVI and WAV files that will play back in real time when using Adobe Premiere 6.0 with Matrox RT2000.

    Matrox Video Player
    The Matrox Video Player is a convenient utility that lets you play back Matrox audio/video files directly on your computer display and video monitor at full frame rate.

    Windows Me support
    RT2000 MEGA Pack fully supports Windows Me (Millennium Edition), the newest version of Windows from Microsoft that brings the best in digital media tools, improvements in overall user experience, easier home networking, and a rich set of Internet features.

    Note: Windows 2000 support will be available with the next major driver release of Matrox RT2000.

    New 1394 Features

    RT2000 MEGA Pack features new and improved 1394 support.

    1394 hot swap
    You can now disconnect and reconnect your DV-1394 device even with Adobe Premiere running! There's no need to quit and reload the application when you want to change your DV-1394 device.

    Four-channel DV audio support
    When capturing DV clips over the 1394 interface, you can choose to simultaneously capture either two 16-bit 48-kHz channels or four 12-bit 32-kHz audio channels. This feature lets you capture the extra two channels of audio used for voiceover tracks or music tracks available on some cameras.

    DVCPRO support
    Panasonic's DVCPRO format is now fully supported for capture and print-to-tape. PAL users benefit from DVCPRO's 4:1:1 sampling structure as opposed to standard DV's 4:2:0 sampling structure.

    Analog MPEG-2 I-frame or IBP capture with DV-1394 device control
    You can use the device control from your 1394 connection to capture the analog input from your DV-1394 device, which lets you capture to MPEG-2 I-frame or MPEG-2 IBP format. For example, you could capture the S-Video input to MPEG-2 I-frame format at a low bit rate for offline work.

    Product Enhancements

    RT2000 product enhancements have been included in MEGA Pack.

    Enhanced A/V sync on both analog and 1394 capture
    A new and improved capture engine ensures that you can keep weak analog video signals in sync with the accompanying audio signal.

    Improved stability
    Significant enhancements to the Matrox RT2000 software offer improved performance and reliability.

    Improved audio scrubbing
    Audio scrubbing is much more responsive, and you can now monitor all audio through the RT2000 breakout box while editing in Adobe Premiere.

    For even more info about RT2000, check out Videoguys' hands on review!!

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  • RT2000 bundle. Incredible value!!
  • Flex 3D Real Time 3D transitions & effects!!
  • Realtime DV and MPEG-2 Editing on Matrox RT2000
  • Videoguys' hands on review of Matrox RT2000
  • RT2000 tech tips and easy installation guide
  • Matrox RT2000 Incredible value!!

    The Matrox RT2000 bundle includes the RT2000 codec card, the Matrox Millennium G400 graphics accelerator, an attractive audio/video breakout box, and a complete content creation software suite – Adobe Premiere 6.0 RT realtime nonlinear editing, Ulead Cool 3D titling, Sonic Foundry ACID Music audio editing, and Sonic DVDit! LE DVD authoring.

    This IS your graphics card! Millennium G400 provides a high-performance console with a video-in-a-window display. An additional graphics display adapter is not required in the system so there are no compatibility hassles.

    Adobe Premiere 6.0 RT
    The Matrox realtime plug-in for Adobe Premiere lets you take full advantage of the powerful RT2000 hardware. Choose from a wide variety of realtime 2D and 3D filters and transitions with customizable drop shadows, soft edges, and color borders.

    Get instant feedback the Matrox plug-in provides ultra-responsive scrubbing and realtime preview and playback on your video monitor and desktop display. You even get multi-track transparency control from within Premiere.

    Sonic Acid
    ACID Music is the fastest and easiest way to create custom license-free music for your RT2000 projects. The package includes many high-quality, cutting-edge loops to give you unprecedented creative flexibility.

    Ulead Cool 3D
    Cool 3D lets you create stunning full-screen 3D animated titles, alpha-channeled TGA images and sequences, and full-motion AVI movies for your RT2000 projects. Add finishing touches to your videos with an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface where you can apply special effects, textures, and bevels to your text and logos.

    Sonic DVDIt!
    Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish digital video on DVD. You capture and edit video in realtime using Adobe Premiere 6.0 RT. Then drag and drop your edited video sequences, audio clips, graphics, backgrounds, and buttons into DVDit!. With its intuitive user interface, lightning-quick operation and high-powered formatting engine, DVDit! lets you easily create DVD-Video and DVD-ROM titles that play back on your set-top or PC-based player. Now, with an affordably-priced DVD-Recordable device on your desktop, DVD is the perfect distribution format for any video program.

    Inscriber TitleExpress
    A new plug-in for Adobe Premiere, TitleExpress provides more than 170 pre-designed titling templates, over 150 pre-designed text styles, and full support for all True Type fonts. Users can also customize titles with complete control over text placement, kerning, width, leading and slant. In addition to the templates provided, TitleExpress also lets users can create their own title pages, import background images and produce credit rolls and crawls.

    Matrox RT2000 includes a variety of unique productivity tools to save you countless hours in the editing suite.

    RT2000 - the features

    Video Inputs
  • 1394
  • composite video (CVBS), RCA jack
  • S-video (Y/C), mini-DIN
  • NTSC, PAL, and SECAM

    Video Outputs

  • 1394
  • composite video (CVBS), RCA jack
  • S-video (Y/C), mini-DIN
  • NTSC and PAL

    Video formats

  • ITU-R601 YUV 4:2:2
  • NTSC: 720x480 at 30 frames/sec
  • PAL/SECAM: 720x576 at 25 frames/sec

    Video overlay

  • programmable NTSC and PAL video-in-a-window support on console at 60/50 fields/sec
  • System requirements:

    • Intel Pentium II CPU, 300 MHz
    • 128 MB RAM
    • Free AGP Slot
    • Free PCI Slot
    • 500 MB of free space for software installation
    • Separate drive for A/V content
    • CD-ROM drive for software installation
    • Windows 98

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