If you need the functionality of an I/O card and the convenience of a rackmountable breakout box, you’ll find it all in Matrox MXO2 Rack.

This 2RU-sized device is built on the award-winning Matrox MXO2 technology. It’s designed for postproduction facilities, broadcast news operations, and OB vans where highly-reliable equipment, more audio inputs and outputs, and genlock loop through are required. Matrox MXO2 streamlines editing workflow with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros.

It gives you broadcast-quality HD/SD input/output via HDMI, SDI, and analog; professional audio input/output including built-in 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound monitoring; and HDMI video monitoring with calibration controls including blue-only. You also benefit from a wide variety of workflows thanks to its 10-bit hardware up/down/cross scaling engine and support for a wealth of file-based formats and industry-standard codecs.

Matrox MXO2 Rack is also available with Matrox MAX technology for faster than realtime high definition H.264 file creation.

• Faster than realtime creation of H.264 files, for resolutions ranging from iPod
to HD, at bitrates up to 50 Mbps

• A specialized, dedicated hardware processor liberates system resources for
other tasks

• Accelerated encoding for Blu-ray, PS3, Apple TV, YouTube, Flash, web
formats, and mobile devices including iPhone and iPod from various video
sources including 2K files

• Direct integration with Apple Compressor on the Mac and Adobe Media
Encoder on the PC to simplify workflow

• Creation of Blu-ray H.264 files that can be authored in Adobe Encore CS4
and Roxio Toast 10 then burned without re-encoding

• Support for Apple Qmaster to take advantage of multiple systems with a
Matrox MAX processing engine for distributed encoding across a network