Welcome To Matrox Mxo2; Matrox Mxo2 System Requirements; Check Our Website For Equipment Information - Matrox MXO2 Installation And User Manual

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Welcome to Matrox MXO2

Matrox MXO2 products connect to your desktop computer or laptop to provide
broadcast-quality video input/output, monitoring, and downconversion. MXO2
streamlines your workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro, and provides WYSIWYG
output when working with many popular compositing and animation programs.
You also get HDMI video monitoring with calibration controls, including
blue-only.
Matrox MXO2 products with Matrox MAX technology have a dedicated
hardware processor that accelerates the encoding of H.264 files for resolutions
ranging from iPod to HD. This lets you quickly and easily create H.264 files for
Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices.

Matrox MXO2 system requirements

Matrox MXO2 products require a computer system with the following
configuration:
• A computer that supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), such as an
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 or later.
• Dual-CPU, or one dual-core CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate (64-bit), Windows Vista
Business or Ultimate (32- or 64-bit) with Service Pack 2, or Windows XP
Professional (32-bit) with Service Pack 3.
• 2 GB of RAM for 32-bit Windows systems, or 4 GB of RAM for 64-bit
Windows systems.
• One free PCIe slot on a desktop computer to install the Matrox PCIe host
adapter, or one free ExpressCard/34 slot on a laptop to install the Matrox
PCIe host ExpressCard/34 adapter.
• If you want to use MXO2 with Adobe Premiere Pro, you must have Adobe
Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.2 or later. For Matrox MAX H.264 encoding,
you must have Adobe Media Encoder CS4 version 4.2 or later.
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as Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Encore.
• We recommend an HDMI monitor that supports 1920×1080 for previewing
all HD formats, and "dot-by-dot" mode for 1:1 pixel mapping.

Check our website for equipment information

For up-to-date information about system requirements and MXO2-compatible
devices, check the Matrox MXO2 Support section of our website at
www.matrox.com/video/support.
Chapter 1, Introducing Matrox MXO2
Adobe Media Encoder is included with many Adobe programs, such