The worlds FIRST Realtime Editing and Effects for the Power Mac G4

Matrox RTMac brings realtime power and creative freedom to Apple Final Cut Pro users. A Matrox RTMac in your Apple Power Mac G4 lets you work with three layers of video and graphics in real time and create broadcast-quality effects instantly — NO RENDERING!

Matrox RTMac Key features

• Three-layer realtime editing
• Realtime broadcast-quality effects and transitions powered by Matrox Flex 3D
• Native-DV editing
• Analog Y/C and composite input/output complements FireWirebsupport built into the Power Mac G4
• Digital video on console display and simultaneous full-resolution viewing on your NTSC/PAL monitor
• VGA display output drives a second computer monitor for dual-screen editing
• 48 KHz stereo audio input/output genlocked to video
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Realtime native-DV editing

• Three-layer realtime editing - work with two video layers and one graphics layer OR two graphics layers and one video layer simultaneously.
• Linear alpha keying - overlay titles, logos, and graphics on video in realtime.
• 16:9 support - edit in wide screen format.
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Broadcast-quality effects powered by Matrox Flex 3D

• Realtime transitions - apply a cross dissolve, wipe, slide, or iris effect between two video layers or a video layer and a graphics layer.
• Realtime motion effects - use practically any Final Cut Pro keyframeable motion effect on a video or graphics layer including scaling, rotation, position, cropping, distortion, drop shadow, and opacity.
  

Versatile capture and output

• Native DV support - use Final Cut Pro and your G4 FireWire ports to bring in your source material and export back to DV tape without transcoding.
• Y/C (S-Video) and composite video capture/output - digitize video to DV from analog sources to mix with your native DV sources. Record your finished program to tape using any standard VHS or S-VHS VCR.
• 48 kHz unbalanced stereo RCA audio capture/ output - digitize audio while maintaining perfect sync with video.
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Matrox RTMac requires the following system configuration:
Single or multi-processor Power Mac G4 with AGP motherboard. 400-MHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor. 256 MB RAM. One free PCI slot. CD-ROM drive for software installation. Mac OS version 9.1. Final Cut Pro version 2.0. QuickTime version 5.0. Fast EIDE/Ultra ATA or SCSI disk drives— must be able to sustain two 25-megabit/second streams.