New Matrox MXO2 offers portable, HD, SD I/O support for Mac

Matrox Video Products Group introduced the Matrox MXO2 portable I/O package for the Mac during NAB2008.

Designed to streamline editing workflow with Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Production Premium on MacBook Pros and Mac Pros, Matrox MXO2 provides broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring and up/down/crossconversion.

Users can benefit from file-based workflows with native support for XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX and P2. In addition, they are not limited to using a single codec.

Key features include:

• Portability — fits in a laptop bag and runs off a field battery or an AC adapter
• HD/SD-SDI, HD/SD analog component, Y/C and composite inputs and outputs
• Genlock — SD analog black burst (bilevel) or HD trilevel sync
• HDMI input, output and monitoring with calibration controls including blue only

For more information, visit www.matrox.com/video.