The Great DV Shootout 2003
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Stephen Albanese, Product Manager -- RT Series, Matrox:Matrox RT.X100 is the NLE of choice because it provides superior capture and export tools and the most comprehensive realtime editing features. It shines in "the details", providing the best user experience and the biggest bang for the buck.
Best capture tools
Most comprehensive editing features
Best export tools
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Charlie's Comments:I agree with Stephen when he says Matrox has the best scan/capture tools. Rounding up all your clips into the RT.X100 format is the easiest I've seen so far, but it's still not perfect. Just mark the in where you want to start capturing, mark the out where the capturing should end, name your tape, hit scan/capture and it's off and running. Once that's done -- where it all happens in one pass, by the way -- you right-click, select Export to Premiere, and there all your clips are when you launch Premiere. If you veer from that routine, though, Matrox's capture routine gets a little shaky. Don't try to add clips to a project this way, or to replace a project with the same one after you've added comments in Media Tools -- it crashes, or says "an error occurred loading your project." When I was testing this, it locked the machine up so tight I had to cold boot to resume my work. I get the idea the capture applet is designed to just capture everything on your tape and then export to a new Premiere project, because I couldn't just export two or three more files after you've exported a bunch of clips without it crashing. There's one way to do this that works every time and works extremely well -- scan/capture your clips, export them into a new project name, and then work within Premiere to add comments. After that, if you want to grab more shots, you'll have to capture individual clips from within Premiere, which is actually no big deal anyway when you're just dealing with a few clips.
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| Click graphic for enlargement -- Matrox RT.X100 color correction dialog box brings professional-level color correcting down to earth. |
Stephen is right about the color correction features -- they're much improved over the RT2500, which was not much more than a colorization filter. This gives you real time control over almost every aspect of the color space, probably more than you'll ever need. It's a huge improvement, letting you do sophisticated things like affect a specific tonal range, where, for example you can just change the shadows, midtones or highlights while leaving the other colors as they are. Take a look at the RT.X100's color correction dialog box in the the above graphic, where I was able to easily leave the winged building white while I cast an eerie green glow on the sky.
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