If you're into the video editing business or just have video editing as a hobby, you've probably all heard by now of the Apple Final Cut Studio product. And you've probably also heard about the Matrox MXO2, one of the best HD/SD I/O for the Mac, specially designed to streamline editing with Apple's Final Cut Studio. Well now Matrox has announced the MXO2 LE, the portable version of the MXO2, allowing very fast H.264 Encoding.

The matrox MX02 LE works with Intel-based MacBook Pros, Mac Pros or Apple's Xserve systems. It has a 4-pin XLR power connector for AC or field battery operation, 10-bit HDMI input, output and monitoring with calibration controls, and as much as 5 simultaneous video outputs. Whether you want to switch to HD and/or SD on HDMI, SDI, and analog, you have them all! And the list goes on and on.

“Content creators are buying Matrox I/O devices not only to meet their input, output, and monitoring needs, but also to speed up delivery to today's digital formats. Creating Blu-ray discs and video for the web and mobile devices is much faster than ever before with Matrox MAX H.264 encoding technology,” said Alberto Cieri, Matrox senior sales and marketing director. “The new Matrox MXO2 LE provides all the features professionals need in a compact, affordable, end-to-end productivity tool.”

As for the Matrox MAX technology incorporated in the MXO2 LE, it uses a dedicated hardware processor that helps release the strain on your system, offers Accelerated encoding for Blu-ray, Apple TV, YouTube, Flash, web formats and mobile devices and so on, as well as being able to integrate directly with Apple Compressor and Telestream Episode.

While the Matrox MXO2 LE is priced at 995 USD, should you go for the full solution with MAX technology, you'll have to pay the sum of 1,395 USD for it.


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