Award-winning realtime editing platforms

All four DigiSuite platforms share the same award-winning mix/effects engine and advanced productivity features that have made them the best-selling realtime editing platforms on the PC. And they are compatible with more digital media applications than any other realtime editing platform. You can choose from a wide variety of editing. compositing, paint, animation, scheduling, CG, sudio sweetening, and DVD authoring software vendors.

is ideal for intense post-production work. It delivers uncompressed-quality images and the most realtime editing power.

is a value-priced platform with a unique combination of image quality and versatility for facilities that use a variety of analog and digital formats.

offers native DV, DV50, and MPEG-2 multi-format editing with a built-in support for DVD authoring.

offers native DV and MPEG-2 editing with built-in support for DVD authoring, at a great price.

 

  

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Realtime features
Productivity Tools
Matrox DigiSuite
Matrox DigiSuite LE
Matrox DigiSuite DTV
Matrox DigiSuite LX


DVS for DigiSuite and DigiSuite LE

 

Whichever DigiSuite platform you choose, you'll discover that you have an editing system that's so easy-to-use, so reliable, and so powerful that you can take on all the projects you've ever dreamed of, and still have a life outside the editing suite.

Advanced realtime features

The Matrox DigiSuite platforms provide multiple 2D DVE processors, multiple channels of YUV color correction, independent transparency control on all layers, 32-bit animated graphics, two advanced chroma/luma keyers, a customizable wipe/tile generator, variable speed motion control, and perfect audio sync.

But the real beauty of the DigiSuite architecture is that all these advanced realtime features can be applied to each layer independently, all are available simultaneously, and there are no data rate limitations, repeat field transitions, or other common quality compromises.

You can use your imagination to dream up an unlimited number of unique effects that can be created by combining a variety of Matrox realtime features.

Advanced Realtime Features – All Simultaneously Available!
• multiple channels of 2D DVE
• multiple channels of YUV color correction
• multiple channels of variable-speed motion control
• independent transparency control on each layer
• 32-bit uncompressed animated graphics - roll or crawl 32-bit credits over video (and transitions) in realtime
• two advanced chroma/luma/matte keyers with chroma suppression, shadow preservation, and anti-aliased edges
• hundreds of user customizable transitions with anti-aliased edges and soft-borders

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Unique productivity tools

A variety of special hardware and software features are built into the Matrox DigiSuite platforms to increase efficiency and throughput in your editing suite.

16:9 Editing Support
• Wide-screen capture, editing, and display

Multi-layer compositing engine
• Quickly builds productions with dozens (or even hundreds!) of video and/or graphics layers with travelling mattes, 2D DVEs, transitions, YUV color correction, keying, and all the other Matrox realtime effects
• Compression-free internal processing prevents multiple generation loss

High-performance software codec
• Read and write DigiSuite compatible files without having the DigiSuite hardware in the system
• Concurrently run multiple applications that would normally require a unique hardware resource
• Render a project in a compositing application while doing realtime editing on DigiSuite
• Facilitate media sharing over a network among editors, graphic artists and animators where only the editing station requires the DigiSuite hardware for capture and realtime online finishing. The other stations access material stored on the editing station, manipulate the material without making a local copy, and feed material to the editing station without interrupting the edit session
• Easily share work on CD-ROM or other removable media with sub-contractors and clients

Accelerated Print-to-Disk
• Quickly puts your realtime sequences into an AVI file so you can easily use them as source elements for animation and compositing or send them to a broadcast server, ready to air

Accelerated Image Transfer
• High-speed transfer of video frames to system memory increases performance of host CPU-based software effects

Professional Audio Features
• 4 in/4 out, balanced/unbalanced analog I/O
• Audio clock genlocked to video reference ensures perfect synchronization in accordance with SMPTE-272M and AES11-1991

Seamless Software Integration
• Microsoft-standard enhanced AVI file format compatible with DirectShow and Video for Windows (VFW) applications
• DigiSuite AVI file size exceeds 12 terabytes, over 200 hours of D1 video!

WYSIWYG
• See your video paint, compositing, and animation work directly on a broadcast video monitor from within most popular third-party applications
• Ensure proper 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio in NTSC or PAL
• Check for exact color temperature, safe-title area, and any interlaced artifacts that may be present in the image

DV-1394 Support
• A 1394 card is included with DigiSuite DTV and DigiSuite LX for native-DV transfers

SDI Option
• Provides serial digital (SDI) video and AES/EBU digital audio I/O

Audio and Video Breakout Boxes
• Breakout boxes are included with Matrox DigiSuite. They are low-cost options for DigiSuite LE, LX, and DTV
• Simplify input/output configuration changes and system maintenance
• Molded plastic cases can be used free-standing in desktop mode or can be rack mounted

MAX Option
• Compatible with Matrox DigiSuite LE, LX, and DTV
• Advanced realtime effects layering on video and graphics
• Realtime 3D digital video effects powered by Matrox Flex 3D
• Built in 1394 port
• Realtime DV acquisition and print-to-tape
• Realtime MPEG-2 encoding for DVD authoring
• Accelerated MPEG-1 encoding for multimedia and Video CD authoring
• Hardware-assisted web video encoding - RealVideo, Windows Media
Read more about the DigiSuite MAX platforms

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