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Matrox RT.X2
User Guide
May 27, 2008
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Trademarks ® Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. ....................................... Matrox , Axio™, DigiSuite™, EZ-MXF™, Flex CPU™, Flex GPU™, Mx.tools™, RT.X2™ ® ® ® ® ® ® Adobe Systems Inc.......................................................... Adobe , After Effects , Encore , Flash , Photoshop , Premiere , Clip Notes™, Soundbooth™ ® Apple Computer, Inc........................................................ Apple , FireWire™ ® ® ® Autodesk, Inc. ..........................................
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Contents Chapter 1 Introducing Matrox RT.X2 Welcome to Matrox RT.X2...............................................................2 Matrox RT.X2 SD key features...............................................................2 Matrox RT.X2 and RT.X2 LE key features ..............................................2 About this manual ............................................................................3 Style conventions...........................................................................
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ii Displaying warnings in Adobe Premiere Pro’s Events panel..........19 Mixing interlaced and progressive clips in a project......................19 Mixing SD and HD clips in a project .............................................. 20 Defining your General settings .......................................................21 Selecting options for accelerated Premiere Pro effects.......................24 Specifying your video output settings ..................................................25 Selec
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iii Cropping your clip..........................................................................55 Using Select Crop ................................................................................56 Applying a mask to your effect ......................................................57 Using Select Mask ...............................................................................58 Creating a primary color correction...............................................59 Using Split View ..........
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iv Creating a mask mosaic effect .................................................... 118 Creating a move & scale effect....................................................120 Creating an old movie effect ........................................................122 Creating a page curl effect ..........................................................126 Creating a pan & scan effect .......................................................128 Creating a ripple effect.................................
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v Required steps to use the WYSIWYG plug-ins ............................ 162 Adobe After Effects ........................................................................... 162 Adobe Photoshop.............................................................................. 162 Autodesk 3ds Max............................................................................. 162 Autodesk Combustion ....................................................................... 162 eyeon Fusion .................
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vi Capturing HDV and SD material on Matrox RT.X2 SD..................182 Using the Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame HD codec ..............................183 MPEG-2 I-frame HD codec workflow example for offline editing....... 183 MPEG-2 I-frame HD codec workflow example for online editing....... 185 Using Matrox RT.X2 to edit Matrox Axio offline HD projects........186 Supported video compression formats........................................187 Supported master output formats.............................
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Chapter 1 Introducing Matrox RT.X2 This chapter outlines some of the features of the Matrox RT.X2 product line, and describes the available Matrox RT.X2 documentation.
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2 Welcome to Matrox RT.X2 Matrox RT.X2 products let you get maximum productivity from Adobe Premiere Pro, and are ideal for corporate communicators, event videographers, project studios, educational facilities, and digital filmmakers. Matrox RT.X2 SD is for users who want to deliver in SD only, while Matrox RT.X2 and RT.X2 LE give you the flexibility to edit, view, and output HDV and SD material. Matrox RT.X2 SD key features The following are key features of Matrox RT.X2 SD: • Realtime multi
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3 � Native .mxf file support for Panasonic P2 (SD and 720p formats) in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. � Matrox EZ-MXF utility for native .mxf file support in Video for Windows (.avi file) applications. � Realtime mixed-format multi-camera editing. � Realtime high-quality hardware downconverting for SD output of an HD project. � Accelerated media encoding, including export to DVD, Flash Video, and Adobe Clip Notes. � WYSIWYG plug-ins for many popular compositing and animation programs
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4 � A plus (+) sign is used to indicate combinations of keys and/or mouse operations. For example: $ CTRL+C means to hold down the CTRL key while pressing the C key. $ SHIFT+click means to hold down the SHIFT key while you click an item with the mouse. How video formats are expressed With the exception of NTSC and PAL, all SD and HD video formats are expressed in the Matrox RT.X2 documentation and dialog boxes as follows: VRp or i @ n fps Where: � VR is the vertical resolution. For 1440×1080
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Chapter 2 Working with .mxf, .mp4, and .avi Files This chapter shows you how to work with .mxf, .mp4, and .avi files on Matrox RT.X2.
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6 Working with native .mxf files in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects ¦Note Matrox RT.X2 SD does not support working with .mxf files. Matrox RT.X2 supports the MXF file format, which allows you to use .mxf files that are created with the Panasonic P2 camera (in SD and 720p formats) directly in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects without having to convert the files to the traditional AVI file format. ¡ Important When using a Panasonic P2 camera to shoot material at 486p @ 23.98 fps for u
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7 Working with native XDCAM EX (.mp4) files in Adobe Premiere Pro ¦Note Matrox RT.X2 SD does not support XDCAM EX files. Matrox RT.X2 supports realtime playback of Sony XDCAM EX 1080i/p and 720p .mp4 files in Adobe Premiere Pro. Both 1080i/p HQ-mode (1920×1080) and 1080i/p SP-mode (1440×1080) clips are supported in your 1080i/p projects, and will be automatically scaled to your project’s frame size as needed. For example, when you import XDCAM EX 1080i @ 29.97 fps HQ-mode (1920×1080) clips
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8 Displaying information for clips in Windows Explorer Matrox RT.X2 extends the functionality of Windows Explorer by allowing you to easily view and manage your .mxf and .avi files by providing thumbnail previews (Vista and XP) and additional file details (XP only). ¦Note You can view thumbnails and additional details for .mxf and .avi files in any application where you can choose the thumbnails or details view, such as Adobe Premiere Pro’s Import dialog box. Thumbnails preview Matrox RT.X2
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9 2 Choose View > Choose Details. 3 In the Choose Details dialog box, select the check boxes corresponding to the desired “Matrox” or “Matrox P2” details. Detail names followed by “Matrox P2” are specific to Panasonic P2 files (for example, User Clip Name, Shooter, Shooting Location, and Scene No.). 4 Click OK. 5 To apply the change to all folders, choose Tools > Folder Options > View > Apply to All Folders. Creating Matrox EZ-MXF files for playback with VFW applications ¦Note The Matrox EZ
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10 �For .mxf files that have a frame size of 1440 ×1080, the created reference .avi files will have a frame size of 1920×1080 and a 1.333 pixel aspect ratio. To display these .avi files correctly in Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ll need to use the Interpret Footage command to change the pixel aspect ratio to 1.0. You can configure Matrox EZ-MXF to create only video files, only audio files, or both types of files. By default, Matrox EZ-MXF is set to create both video and au
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11 When you select an .mxf file in the VIDEO folder, Matrox EZ-MXF looks for any associated audio .mxf files in the AUDIO folder, and creates the reference .avi and associated .wav files in the VIDEO folder. For example, if you select the file 00001A.mxf from the VIDEO folder, the reference .avi file (00001A.avi) and all associated audio files, such as 00001A00.Mono.wav and 00001A01.Mono.wav, will be created in the VIDEO folder. For more information on the P2 naming convention and folder s
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12 files will be named Filename_Ref.avi, Filename_Ref.Mono1.wav, and Filename_Ref.Mon2.wav. For example, if you’re creating both video and audio files for a file named Demo.avi, your reference files will be named Demo_Ref.avi, Demo_Ref.Mono1.wav, and Demo_Ref.Mono2.wav (only mono reference .wav files can be created for stereo HDV clips). ¦Note The file type settings will remain in effect until you change them. 3 Right-click the desired HDV .avi file (or selected files), and choose Matrox EZ
