Montreal, Canada, February 13, 2006 – Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox Axio™ LE, a high-performance realtime HD/SD editing platform at the breakthrough price of $4,495 US in North America.

Matrox Axio LE is the latest entry in the Matrox Axio family of products that makes Adobe® Premiere® Pro the foremost realtime HD and SD editor for demanding broadcast and post-production environments.  It features no-render HD and SD finishing in compressed and uncompressed formats, superior realtime color correction tools, advanced realtime effects, and a full complement of analog and digital audio and video inputs and outputs. It also lets users work seamlessly with the other Adobe Production Studio applications, fully supporting Adobe Dynamic Link and providing WYSIWYG video output support for Adobe After Effects® and Adobe Photoshop® CS2, as well as other industry-leading animation and compositing packages. Matrox Axio LE incorporates Matrox Flex and Power of X technologies to leverage CPU and GPU power to provide the ultimate HD and SD post-production experience.

“With the launch of Axio LE, Matrox has again demonstrated their ability to deliver a high-end professional editing platform at an affordable price point,” said Simon Hayhurst, director of product management, Web and Video Solutions for Adobe. “The new Matrox Axio LE is ideally suited for use with Adobe Production Studio, bringing maximum realtime functionality and complete workflow flexibility to professional video editors working in both HD and SD.” 

“Matrox Axio LE makes realtime HD editing much more affordable, bringing huge productivity and workflow advantages to creative professionals,” said Lorne Trottier, president and CTO of Matrox. “Users get so much more than with software-only systems – many more realtime layers of video and graphics, many more realtime effects including broadcast-quality 3D DVE, native support for many additional codecs, simultaneous HD and SD output, accelerated export to DVD and multimedia formats –the benefits inherent in this complete post-production solution are very impressive!”

Key features of Matrox Axio LE
 

Price and availability
Priced at $4,495 US in North America, Matrox Axio LE is available through a worldwide network of authorized dealers. Matrox Axio LE system prices vary depending on workflow requirements.  System selection guidelines and lists of validated workstation-class PCI-X computers and motherboards, as well as recommended GPUs and storage devices will be posted in the support section of the Matrox website.  Complete Axio LE-based turnkey systems are also available from Matrox Axio LE authorized dealers.

About Matrox
Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs.  Matrox's Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide.  Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.  For more information contact Matt Drabick of DigiTek Systems at mdrabick@mindspring.com or call 919-790-5488.