Welcome To Matrox Mxo2; Matrox Mxo2 System Requirements; Supported Programs - 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 up/down/cross conversion.
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.
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, Ultimate, or Home Premium (64-bit)
with Service Pack 1.
• 4 GB of RAM.
• 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.
• We recommend an HDMI monitor that supports the following:
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Supported programs

• Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5.1, Media Encoder 5.5.1, Encore 5.1, After Effects
10.5, Photoshop 12.1, and Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2.
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 and Combustion 2008 (32-bit only).
• Avid Media Composer 5.5.3 and NewsCutter 9.5.2 (MXO2 Mini and MXO2
Mini with MAX only).
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Chapter 1, Introducing Matrox MXO2
An HDMI input resolution of 1920×1080 for previewing all HD formats.
1:1 pixel mapping for displaying your MXO2 output at its exact
resolution, and for use with the Matrox HDMI Calibration Utility.
For details on using MXO2 Mini hardware with Avid editing software, see the
document Using Matrox MXO2 Mini with Avid Media Composer and NewsCutter,
available in the Matrox MXO2 Support section of our website at
www.matrox.com/video/support.
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