Review: Matrox MXO

Studio Monthly By Bruce Nazarian

Kick Your Workflow into High Gear

Every now and then, a really cool tool shows up that performs an assortment of useful functions and really kicks your workflow into high gear. The Matrox MXO is that tool.

This tiny standalone box intercepts the DVI output feed from your secondary monitor and converts it into many different formats of broadcast-quality HD or SD video, suitable for output to videotape, or even direct encoding into MPEG-2 (if you have a real-time hardware encoder).

MXO can solve annoying formatting issues that have long bugged desktop video editors; for example, MXO can reformat widescreen (HD) content into SD formats (letterboxed, anamorphic or center crop) in real time, as playout occurs from the editorial timeline. read more...