Matrox RT2000 and RT2500 owners can now trade up to RT.X100 Xtreme for just $599 US

[Elie]

Matrox RT2000 and RT2500 owners can now trade up to RT.X100 Xtreme for just $599 US
Loyal Matrox customers can now benefit from many new workflow and productivity enhancements at an amazing price.

Additional features of RT.X100 Xtreme include:
• Realtime DV and MPEG-2 encoding
• Advanced realtime, 3-way, 18-parameter YUV color correction
• Professional waveform and vectorscope monitors
• Realtime super-smooth field-blended slow motion
• XtremePreview for editing many layers and effects without rendering, and much more.


Price and availability
The Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme trade-up offer is available from authorized resellers worldwide until June 30, 2003. There are two special trade-up versions of the Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme bundle, neither version includes Adobe Premiere. Customers must use their current copy of Adobe Premiere 6.5 or upgrade to Adobe Premiere 6.5 through Adobe.

Both Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme trade-up bundles include the RT.X100 Xtreme video editing card, an audio/video breakout cable, a DV-1394 cable, the Matrox X.tools CD, and Sonic DVDit! SE.

1) The Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme trade-up bundle without Sonic ReelDVD Studio is $599 US in North America (a $949 value).

2) The Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme trade-up bundle with Sonic ReelDVD Studio is $749 US in North America (a $1,099 value)


Purchasers must return their RT2000 PCI card or their RT2500 card to their RT.X100 reseller to be eligible for this special trade-up offer. The Matrox "Trade-up to Xtreme" Offer Form must be returned with the RT2000 or RT2500 board.

Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme ships May 30, 2003

But don't wait...
Buy a Matrox RT.X100 trade-up bundle today and get a free upgrade to the Xtreme drivers.


Important note: System requirements for RT.X100 Xtreme are different from those for RT2000 and RT2500. Please click here to verify system compatibility. Pay particular attention to the operating system, processor speed, RAM, sound card, and graphics card requirements.



For more information in the U.S please visit the following URL;

http://www.matrox.com/video/products/rtx100xtreme/rt_tradeup.cfm

[Dr Mordrid]

And it's worth it

Dr. Mordrid

[Zanna]

Would be a graceful thing if any existent G400MAX User can upgrade to a P650 / P750 in a similar way....

Occasionally I have a G400MAX

[Pooh]

Wheyhey

I've ordered mine today. £399 ex VAT

can't wait to get my hands on it.

Doc

Can you confirm if the RT.X will work with my Premier 6.02 or will I need to upgrade it to 6.5. I downloaded RT.X100_Installation_and_User_Guide.pdf and it just refers to Premier and not the version number.

I did notice from one screenshot ( can't remember where I saw it ) of the installation screen for the video toos that there was a button to upgrade Premier to 6.01.

Regards

Pooh

Ex RT2000 user.

[Dr Mordrid]

You probably can use 6.02, but I'd really consider upgrading to 6.5. It has a much better titler based on Inscribers technology (yes; much better than the Inscriber used w/RT-2x000 too), an audio mixer and the full Main Concept MPEG encoder built in. This encoder gives you no less than THREE encoders to use for exports.

Rather nice upgrade plus it's more stable IMO.

Dr. Mordrid

[Elie]

Excellent Pooh, Congrats! you will love the Power of Xtreme!

Cheers,
Elie

[Pooh]

Thanks for the info

One final ? for today if I may. Reading through the info Matrox recommend 2 HDs reserved for AV work to allow realtime output to DV. Is this a necessity or should my current set-up suffice of one big AV drive.

regards

Pooh

[PETERLEE]

Hi
While being very pleased with My RT2500, bit the bullett and ordered RT.X100 extreme, looking foward to wrestling with it!!

Best Wishes.

Peter..

[Elie]

Pooh, the reason Matrox states that you should have a second drive for realtime export to disk is because let's say you only have the one A/V drive and you decide to export a project to disk whether it's in Mpeg-2 or DV.

What ends up happening is premiere is reading from your A/V of up to 8MBps or more, then it has to write at 3.25 MBps so your drive has to be able to sustain all that data transfer.
Now because the whole operation is done in realtime, if your drive drops one frame the export process will stop because your drive could not sustain the read and writes.

This is why Matrox suggest a separate drive just for exporting, this way, each drive is performing one task instead of two, minimizing dropped frames and errors during export.

Hope this helps,


Peter, congrats Dude!, You'll be editing more than wrestling LOL!

Elie

[Pooh]

This raises another question ( sorry guys )

I understand the requirment for the 2nd HD and I have a couple of options.

Current setup is

IDE1 Master 40Gb IBM system drive
IDE1 Slave Pioneer 104 DVD R/RW

IDE 2 Master Maxtor 120Gb AV drive
IDE 2 Slave Free

Matrox recomend moving the Pioneer 104 to IDE2 Slave and attaching and extra AV drive to IDE1 Slave.

My concern with this solution is that if i'm exporting to the new AV drive attached to IDE1 Slave and my system decides it wants to write to the swap file it might interfere with my export. Why the hell Windows wants to use the swap file when I've 1.25Gb of PC2700 RAM beats me!!

I have a free PCI slot and a Promise Ultra 100 IDE controller in my drawer.

I would consider the following set-up as better

IDE 1 Master IBM 40Gb System Drive
IDE 2 Master Pioneer 104
Promise Ultra IDE 1 Maxtor 120Gb AV Drive
Promise Ultra IDE 2 New AV Drive
All Slave channels free.

Final option would be to buy a Promise fastrack or whatever the current equivalent is and a 2nd maxtor 120Gb drive and stripe them together as a single 240Gb drive and leave the IDE 1 & 2 on the Motherboard configured as just the system drive and the Pioneer 104

Your thoughts wold be appreciated

Thanks

Pooh

[Ted222]

Sounds like a good plan...Pooh....you can't have too much storage space...I am spending much of today adding another 240 gigs to my AV systems....and if I had more money, I would set up 2 RAIDS with 1 terabyte each (4x250s).

Consider the needs for archive and back-ups....I seem to develope a need for files as soon as I delete them, and some are very hard to duplicate.

Have fun with your RTx100.....I love mine..

regards,

Ted

[Elie]

Pooh, before you do anything with your promise, can you please tell us what kind of system you have, chipset and all.

The reason I ask is because the Promise Raid cards tax your PCI bus heavily, so if you are have a motherboard with a VIA chipset for example, you can forget about NLE editing or even running a raid in that box.

If you have an SIS or AMD or INTEL based board you are most likely fine.

Regards,
Elie

[Pooh]

Elie

I have an ASUS P4S533-E motherboard with SIS645DX chipset.

After giving the subject some thought I have bought a 40Gb 7200rpm Maxtor Drive and have gone with my ultra 100 controller set-up.

It seems to be working fine

Many thanks

Pooh

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Anything outside of VIA will work

[editting2000]

rtx cards will never work with via motherboards - some sis - it really really likes intel 845pe

its very system dependant

you may need to disable legacy ports in bios hdds connected directly to motherboard is better than promise card as they need more resources

cpu wise I'd suggest 2.2 +

and most likely a fresh win2k or xp install if you had rt2500

premiere 6 or 6.5


bandwidth is the issue - do your rtx research on the motherboard before giving your rt2500 in

no onboard vga either - G550 is great

seems rt2000/2500 in the eyes of matrox is dead doubt if a driver update is being looked at