Matrox MXO2 Rack Max with Thunderbolt Adapter
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Matrox MXO2 Rack Max with Thunderbolt Adapter

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Matrox MXO2 Specifications

About Matrox MXO2

The MXO2 Rack with MAX (Thunderbolt) from Matrox is a 2 RU device that's designed to provide all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy breakout box for your equipment rack. It's got connections for both professional audio and video, including an input and output each for HDMI, component video, composite video and Y/C (S-Video); for audio, there's four XLR ins and eight outs as well as four-channel I/O of AES/EBU. In addition, you've got an HD/SD-SDI input and two such outputs. Your options for high-quality audio/video monitoring couldn't be more versatile. And of course, this configuration of MXO2 Rack includes a Thunderbolt adapter, which supplies the blazing-fast connection to a computer for a data transfer rate of up to 10 Gb/s.

Designed for Mac laptop and desktop systems with a Thunderbolt port, this model features Matrox MAX, a 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 files for Blu-ray, the web and mobile devices. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished more quickly and system resources are freed up for other tasks. This technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor.

Along with broadcast-quality audio & HD video input and output, the MXO2 Rack provides calibration controls that include blue-only. Audio monitoring is a strong suit of the unit, as well: With eight XLR analog audio outs and embedded audio channels on the HDMI and SDI outs, you can perform full 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound monitoring. You also benefit from a wide variety of HD and SD workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro thanks to Matrox MXO2 Rack'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 MXO2 Features

  • Rack-Mountable: Matrox MXO2 Rack is a 2 RU rack-mountable I/O device
  • HD and SD Inputs & Outputs: Matrox MXO2 Rack features professional inputs and outputs. RS-422 machine control is provided for frame-accurate capture and print-to tape with Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Audio Inputs & Outputs: Matrox MXO2 Rack offers four channels each of XLR (balanced) and AES/EBU (unbalanced) audio inputs, in addition to embedded audio on the HDMI and SDI inputs
  • Genlock: Matrox MXO2 Rack provides SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level sync genlock. It can genlock to any type of video input or to house sync
  • Capture to a Variety of Codecs: Matrox MXO2 Rack lets you capture to HD and SD codecs supported by Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro. On a Quad-Core Mac Pro, you can capture HD to ProRes 422 HQ, DVCPRO HD, DV, DVCPRO and DVCPRO50
  • File-Based Formats: Matrox MXO2 Rack lets you work with file-based formats such as XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, P2 and P2HD. You can play out these formats directly from Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro
  • RED Workflow: RED users can benefit from Matrox MXO2 Rack to capture, monitor and playback on set. Back in the post suite, they can use Matrox MXO2 Rack to work with 1K and 2K RED timelines and output to SD, 720, or 1080 via MXO2 Rack's real-time 10-bit hardware scaling feature
  • HD-SDI Closed-Captioning Support: You will no longer need to spend time and money recreating HD captioning data that is typically lost when editing projects in Final Cut Pro. Matrox MXO2 Rack offers a unique workflow to capture, playback and preserve closed-captioning data while editing
  • HD & SD Video Monitoring: Matrox MXO2 Rack turns your HDMI monitor into a true-color video display you can trust, even for color grading
  • HDMI Monitoring with 10-bit 4:2:2 Color Precision: Matrox MXO2 Rack lets you adjust and control your HDMI monitor exactly like you would a broadcast HD/SD monitor. Controls for hue, chroma, contrast, brightness and blue-only are provided
  • Pixel-to-Pixel Mapping on HDMI Displays: Matrox MXO2 Rack provides 1:1 pixel mapping on HDMI monitors that support this feature
  • Real-Time Conversion, Capture & Output: Matrox MXO2 Rack lets you deliver in any format your clients demand. The 10-bit hardware scaling provides high-quality mastering
  • Hardware Acceleration: Matrox MXO2 Rack offers hardware acceleration of Final Cut Pro Dynamic RT segments, HDV and DVCPRO HD
  • HD to SD Downscaling: Matrox MXO2 Rack provides real-time HD to SD downscaling with proper conversion of the HD color space to the SD color space and proper aspect ratio conversion to anamorphic, letterbox and center cut. You can monitor or record an SD master of your HD project in real time
  • SD to HD Upscaling: Matrox MXO2 Rack provides real-time SD to HD upscaling with proper conversion of the SD color space to the HD color space. MXO2 will "pillarbox" 4:3 footage and scale 16:9 SD footage to full screen
  • Cross-Conversion: Matrox MXO2 Rack offers real-time cross-conversion from 720 to 1080 and 1080 to 720 lines. Real-time frame rate conversion is also supported with 2:3:2:3 and 2:3:3:2 cadences
  • AFD Support: Via its HD-SDI connectors, Matrox MXO2 Rack supports Active Format Description (AFD) transmission
  • H.264 & .MOV Playback Application: The Matrox Vetura standalone application conveniently plays back your H.264 and .mov files

What's in the box:

  • Matrox MXO2 Rack with MAX
  • MXO2 Thunderbolt Adapter
  • Multi-Pin Cable to Connect Thunderbolt Adapter to MXO2 Rack
  • Matrox Warranty