Matrox NLEs to Support Adobe Premiere 6.0
 
DigiSuite and RT2000 Owners To Get Free Upgrade If Purchased After November 11, 2000
 
Premiere 6 and Matrox logosMONTREAL (Dec. 21, 2000) -- Matrox Video Products Group today announced that its DigiSuite and RT2000 real time video editing platforms will begin shipping with the new Adobe Premiere 6.0 software in January.
 
"We are excited to bring our customers the powerful new editing tools and refinements of Adobe Premiere 6.0 including one-step web output in all the leading streaming video formats," said Spiro Plagakis, Matrox vice president of sales and marketing. "Our close relationship with Adobe during development enables us to support the new release of Premiere across our entire product line from day one."
 
"The combination of Adobe Premiere software and Matrox realtime editing hardware offers customers a complete range of professional, fully-optimized digital editing solutions on the desktop," said Dave Trescot, director, Dynamic Media, Adobe Systems Incorporated.
 
Upgrades for Matrox DigiSuite and RT2000 Owners Customers who purchase any DigiSuite or RT2000 product bundled with Premiere 5.1 between November 11, 2000 and April 1, 2001 are eligible for a free upgrade to Premiere 6.0 (plus shipping and handling).  Customers who purchased their DigiSuite or RT2000 product prior to November 11, 2000 will be able to order Adobe Premiere 6.0 at the upgrade price.
 
About Matrox DigiSuite Series
The Matrox DigiSuite Series of realtime editing platforms supports the complete range of compression formats, audio and video I/O, and connectivity interfaces that are important to broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, and corporate video departments in the era of digital television.  Dual-stream native-DV, DV50, MPEG-2, and M-JPEG editing features include a 32-bit uncompressed graphics layer, multiple channels of keyframeable DVE, YUV color correction, chroma/luma/matte keying, and hundreds of user-customizable transitions.  The DigiSuite platforms are compatible with the widest range of editing, compositing, animation, and DVD authoring applications from the industry's leading software vendors.
 
About Matrox RT2000 MEGA Pack
Matrox RT2000 is a dual-stream native DV and MPEG-2 nonlinear editing solution for corporate and event video artists.  It provides true three-layer realtime editing with realtime broadcast-quality 3D digital video effects, powered by Matrox Flex 3D technology, at an unprecedented price.  MPEG-2 output for DVD authoring, support for a variety of web-streaming formats, along with 1394 and analog video output for tape distribution, round out the solution. The complete MEGA Pack bundle includes the RT2000 codec card, the Matrox Millennium Flex 3D Edition graphics accelerator, an audio/video breakout box, and a complete software suite - Adobe Premiere for realtime editing, Inscriber Title Express for professional titling, Pixélan Video SpiceRack Lite for realtime organic transitions, Sonic Foundry ACID Music for audio editing, Sonic Solutions DVDit! LE for DVD authoring, and Ulead Cool 3D for 3D text creation.
 
About Matrox
Matrox Video Products Group manufactures digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, and web streaming applications. For more information please visit matrox.com/video.