Matrox RT.X2 Expert Reviews

Matrox has been one of the most important names in desktop video editing for more than a decade, but it hasn't released anything new at the semi-professional end of the market since the RT. So, at last, Matrox has released a successor: the RT....

Matrox has been one of the most important names in desktop video editing for more than a decade, but it hasn't released anything new at the semi-professional end of the market since the RT. So, at last, Matrox has released a successor: the RT....

X2's drivers and effects interface come from Matrox's highend Axio range rather than owing anything to the RT2000 heritage of the RT. A single-processor PC won't be sufficient; Matrox's minimum recommendation is a dualcore Pentium D, with a pair...

So most video editing companies have moved as many editing tasks as possible over to software, in order to take advantage of faster GPUs and processors. Although this could still give you dependable real-time editing when mixing two, or on a good...