Matrox MXO2 Mini and HDTV monitor

hello...
i have the matrox mxo2 mini and want to invest (about $1500 or so) in a hdtv reference monitor for output and color correction.
nothing for broadcast delivery. right now i am using a sony pvm14m4u SD monitor. beautiful, sweet monitor but signal being downconverted and would like to see HD and more accurate color. would appreciate any suggestions. thanks.

I know this is an old post but...I think I'm gonna go with the Matrox mini to output my signal from FCP to HDMI...has anyone had good luck with a Sharp Aquos 32" 60Hz LED? Seems like a steal at only $269 for color correction purposes. That way I'm looking at about $700 for my color corrections set up...hoping it's doable.
Thanks!
David

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Matrox MXO2 Mini and CS6 Windows?

I got a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card to monitor the Premiere CS6 timeline, which turned out to have very mediocre performance since half the times I press play the audio lags one second behind the video. So I'm going to return it and get something else, and the next logical choice by price would be the Matrox MXO2 Mini, and there's a promotion running until the end of July to get the Max model $200 off, so I have two questions for those of you who have this kit.
Does it perform as it should with CS6.0.1? Meaning, no A/V sync issues, no lockups, proper video timings sent to the TV set or broadcast monitor, etc.
And, what about the h.264 encoding quality? I keep trying to find anything on it but all I get are results that talk about its features, like it has super fast encoding, but I can't find any reviews on the actual quality of the encoding, and speed means nothing to me if quality can't be as good as encoding with x264 in at least the normal setting.
Thanks,
Sebastian

srukweza wrote: Can you please update us on the perfomance of the Matrox Mini Max when you have got it.
Certainly. I got it yesterday, and at least for now, I couldn't be happier. Perhaps I'm jinxing it by posting this, but hopefully it will help others without a giant budget to decide for a decent output card instead of a piece of junk like the Intensity Pro, especially since the Max version is $600 at B&H right now for a month or two.
For starters, the MXO2 Mini doesn't have any lag. Ever. The tiny lag I see now between the Premiere monitor window and my TV set is the same I saw with Edius and the HD Spark, and it's caused by the extra processing added by the TV set to the signal, which can be disabled by selecting the "game" mode, but that means lower picture quality. The TV set has a lag of about 3.5 frames, but with the BM Intensity "Pro" (I would like to know what's exactly Pro about that card), it was about one second in certain instances, where I would have to stop and resume to get the correct sync.
The BMI was even worse when scrubbing. While Premiere is pretty bad at scrubbing compared to Edius, the perfomance with the BMI was hillarious. I would go up and down the timeline and the monitor window in the GUI would get stuck sometimes, but the TV set with the signal from the BMI was like a guy in really bad shape trying to catch up to the cursor, and lagging several seconds behind. It was like "Hey dude, let me catch my breath, don't move that mouse so fast, I'm just a itty bitty card with a slow processor!" The MXO2 output signal moves along with my hand, again, with only the lag caused by the TV set.
Picture quality is great, just as good as it is from Edius using the HD Spark, or connecting the camera to the TV set directly using HDMI. The MXO2 outputs a proper interlaced signal (from interlaced footage, of course) that the TV set identifies correctly and can deinterlace for the screen. It can output progressive as well, PAL or NTSC, any size in SD or HD.
Maybe I'm calling the Gods of Jinx to punish me for this, but for me Premiere is very stable with the MXO2. I haven't had any crashes. Only a couple of times it seemed to get stuck for a few seconds and display a frozen frame, but again, this only happened twice in a day and it was as simple as switching to another sequence and back. I don't know if this was caused by a bug in Premiere or the MXO2, but I can live with it if it's just twice a day.
As for those supposed benchmarks that it's supposed to slow down hard drive I/O 300%, it's all BS. The only lack of speed I notice is typical of Premiere, since it's much slower than Edius at handling footage. With Edius, editing AVCHD footage feels almost like editing I-frame only MPEG 2 footage. It can play forward up to 3x or backwards up to 2x without dropping a single frame, with 3 way color correction and curves, scale and rotation. Premiere just can't do that. Even without any effects applied, and with my GTX570 (480 CUDA cores) and a 6 core 3.2 GHz AMD CPU with 16 GB of RAM, trying to play in reverse freezes it for more than a second before it starts playing, and it doesn't do it smoothly. This was that way back in CS5 too, without any additional monitoring card. But the disk speed is exactly the same whether the MXO2 is connected or not, or at least it feels the same, having worked on a project with a four hour timeline. And we're talking AVCHD footage, the one from professional cameras that is 21 Mbps VBR, which is much harder to decode than the one from consumer AVCHD camcorders.
And finally, the Max addition is excellent. I was weary of this type of encoding, having tried the h.264 encoding from both ATI and Nvidia cards, which delivered on the promise of speed, but the resulting footage was absolute garbage, full of pixelation and unwatchable by anyone who demands better than YouTube quality. With the MXO2 I can encode in real time, with Max. render quality selected, and the result is high quality. I did three different encodes of the same 4 minutes of foootage, one in the default 30 Mbps, then 20 and 10 Mbps. I burned that to a BD-RE in Encore and played it on a Sony BDP-S370 connected to my Samsung 46" TV set, and I didn't notice any obvious pixelation, unless I paused and went frame by frame on the 10 Mbps and a bit on the 20 Mbps sample. But overall the quality is great. I still have to do some comparisons with the x264 encoder at the slowest settings, but being able to export in the real time directly from the timeline to high quality h.264 is just amazing.
Of course this is just my experience, and I understand that some people may have had a bad experience with a particular Matrox product and now wants to do nothing with the brand, but in my short experience with the MXO2 Mini, it seems like a hell of a card. I hope it stays that way, because I really want to go back to editing in Premiere. Back in 2010 I tried Premiere CS5 with a GTX465 and the BMI, and it was a terrible experience. The real time was nice, butthe GTX465's fan would speed up like hell every time I hit play, which was very annoying. And to make it worse, the driver for BMI would crash Premiere about three times per hour of editing. So after that horrible experience, I jumped to a promotion to get Edius with the HD Spark for $200 off, and I enjoyed excellent real time and stability, but Edius lacks many creative effects that Premiere has, more so now with CS6. So I'm happy that finally Premiere offers a stable and dynamic editing experience for me.

Matrox MXO2 Mini and COLOR?

Anybody have any experience using the Matrox MXO2 Mini breakout box to monitor color grading
The Matrox MXO2 Mini will be used with a 40" Sony LCD HDTV. My work mostly is shown though a projector to big screens, and for the web. I work in ProRes 422 (HQ) and (standard).
Just like to know if people are happy with it

I disagree with nothing you've said. I already know Davinci having piloted a few sessions (though it's not my primary work by far) and I took to it much quicker than I took to Color. Though I have no issues with the learning curve on Color either. I think they are both great with equally good and bad support for 3rd party hardware. But I do think that Davinci is a more worth while product to use if you want to compete in the color correction profession.
The thing that bothers me about Apple's Final Cut Studio in the past 2 versions is that both stability and innovation seems to have stopped. Dvd Studio Pro has gotten no love for what 4 versions now? They push Quicktime as the core video technology behind all of their apps like FCP and Color yet when they've had ample time to modify Color's code to reflect their software compatibility needs things like the hardware issue I'm having pop up ONLY in Color. Just seems like Apple just wants to buy good apps, sell them in a bundle as inexpensive as they can to sell systems but they've lost their competitive edge with comparable NLE packages like Adobe's Production Suite CS5 or Avid MC. Not to mention they've done nothing to compete in the pro space with the advancements Avid makes every version. Not including the features coming in MC5, MC4s AMA already makes it faster to get editing than FCP was ever able to do. Plus, much like our Color VS Davnici conversation, if you learn Avid you learn software EVERY post house in the world has and uses. The workflows are standards. FCP doesn't have great workflow infrastructure and Apple doesn't seem interested in fixing that.
Why did I just go on that rant? Well I guess it's because I have to use these tools daily and though I see so much potential in Apple Color alone, I feel issues like the one I'm having right now show a serious lack in Apple's interest in keeping their software suite competitive and stable.

CS5.5...Matrox MXO2 Mini...and NVidia GTX285

OK...So I installed Adobe CS5.5 and opened Premiere and all was good. I could import footage, edit...everything. But then I wanted it to work with my Matrox MXO2 mini for external monitoring...and Matrox just released a new update that said it would enable the MXO2 line to do just that. GREAT, so I installed that. And then I took out my ATI graphics card and installed my NVidia 285 that I bought for use with RESOLVE...because the card has CUDA support with Mercury Engine and all that. And after I did that I installed the latest drivers (because there was a messageOK...done.
But now things don't work. Not fully.
First I tried getting my MXO2 to work by choosing Matrox project settings. But when I do that, I cannot see clips I load into the Preview monitor...they are black, and well, act like nothing is there. No timecode, press play, nothing happens. If I drag from the project window into the timeline, the clips appear. But won't play in the Program monitor. Can't be seen, press play, nada happens. I Match Back to a clip in the Preview monitor...I see it's timecode, but no image, and I cannot play.
Then I made a new project, and chose the settings for the footage I was using...DVCPRO HD 720p24...from P2. Again, I can import, but cannot see anything in the Preview monitor. I can drag the clips onto the timeline, and NOW I can see and hear things in the Program monitor...but still nothing in the preview monitor.
So this is really messed up and not functioning right at all. Any clues as to why?
Thanks,
Shane

I'm having a similar problem, but after quite a few hours on the phone with Matrox tech support, still no joy.
Computer specs:
Mac Pro 8 core with Radeon 4870
Matrox MXO2 Mini going to HP Dreamcolor via HDMI
OS X 10.6.8
CS Production Premium 5.5 (I completely flushed my system (Adobe cleaned) free of all CS flavors before 5.5 fresh install)
Flushed/reinstalled Matrox drivers 2.2.3.
Settings:
Matrox System prefs: Set Video output to 1080 (instead of Matrox follows Application)
Adobe PP Prefs:
Set audio hardware to Built In Line Out (not Matrox Player),
Set Video Player to Matrox Player (not Adobe Player)
Good things (temporary):
I can see Matrox Presets in PP 5.5 and create a Matrox sequence
I can create a 1080/24p Matrox sequence and drag some color bars and tone in.
Picture displays on monitor and sound works fine.
Drag in some 7D footage and can see it play off the HDMI. I tried importing some 7D footage as H264 and cut a short sequence. It seems to work until...
Really Bad things:
If I import a WAV file (or AIF or MP3) and try to set in/out points and cut it in, everything breaks:
The Preview window now does not accept new footage and shows as non-responsive black screen
The Spacebar and Play buttons cease to function, both in the timeline and the Preview/Record windows
At this point, even other types of sequences (DSLR for example) no longer function and PP is quasi-dead (menu commands still work)
Quitting/Restarting PP has no effect and all PP functionality is GONE
Rebooting the computer and starting PP resets everything and brings back functionality until.... I bring a sound file into the Preview window. PP dead again!
At this point, PP is not usable as an edit system (at least with Matrox). Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Either with Matrox or another system (AJA, BMD etc.)
I'm stumped. I wanted to see if PP could hold its own against FCP, but this is really bad....

Can I run a mxo2 mini and a BMD intensity pro on the same mac pro?

Hi to everyone,
I have a strange question to you: Can I run a Matrox MXO2 mini and a Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro on the same Mac Pro?
That's because I find more versatile using a MXO2 with editing software (I have an AVID MC 5.5.3 and I don't want to update it to 6 yet) and I'd like to begin to use DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design which, of course, functions only with their cards. My goal is to output Resolve to my FullHD CRT instrumental monitor without spending the money to upgrade AVID for now, I'm fine with 5.5.3.
I won't use them togheter but alternatively as you can easily imagine.
thanks
best regards,
ginuz

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Output issue with Matrox MXO2 Mini

Hi folks,
We have just installed AE CS5 working on a new PC at work. it has an output to a PAL or HD broadcvast monitor via the Matrox MXO2 Mini.
If there are transparent parts of the image it shows an unexpected result.
For instance, if you have the comps BGND set to red then have a white solid with a star shaped mask on it you see a rectangular white shape on the monitor with odd black pixels around the star shape. This white rectangle is not the solid as it doesn't fill the screen. It seems to be a bounding rectangle that contains the mask.
Perhaps it is outputting the straight RGB rather than a Premultiplied image? Or it needs to involve the alpha channel somewhere?
Our old system of a mac CS3 and a Black Magic Card would show the comps BGND colour in the same way that AE did.
It seems that I have to turn on a dummy solid on the bottom of the comp to see things properly.
Could this be a setting of AE? I couldn't find anything in the MXO2' s config.
Thanks

Ok, it's definately outputting straight RGB rather than premultiplied.
Where is this kind of thing set? Has anyone have any experience with other video output cards?
Cheers

Inaccurate Previews with Matrox MXO2 mini

It took me a while to get the settings right, but I was finally able to watch After Effects previews on my output monitor through my new Matrox MXO2 Mini. Unfortunately, however, they don't look the same as the preview on my computer monitor in the composition window. Yeah, I know, that's the point to look different, but it actually looks worse on the Matrox. Not just a little bad, but really bad. The colors are off, there's bad pixel aliasing, and if I use something like a 'blur' effect, the pixels all the way to the edge of the blur are full-brightness, then drop off to nothing.
If I turn on 'Alpha Only' it looks better (actually has gradients of grey now), but loses all color information.
Here are my system specs:
Mac Pro 2x2.27GHz
8GB RAM
OSX 10.6.6
Matrox MXO2 mini (desktop)
fw 11.1
sw 2.1.1.0050
AE 10.0.1.19
I'm working in a DVCPRO-HD 720p23.976 comp in After Effects, and using the Matrox's WYSISYG settings as follows:
Video format: 720 p 23.98 8-bit
Scale to fit: yes
Alpha only: no
my monitor is connected over the HDMI output and is 1920x1200.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

Ok, it's definately outputting straight RGB rather than premultiplied.
Where is this kind of thing set? Has anyone have any experience with other video output cards?
Cheers

Matrox mxo2 mini output preview question

I'm not sure this is the correct site or section to post this, but if someone has an answer or can divert me somewhere where I can find an answer I'd truly appreciate it. I use PPro CS5 and I can also use an LG 27-inch Full HD monitor (the W2753V model) for preview via HDMI. I've been considering the Matrox MXO2 mini for quite a while now but I'm reluctant to a purchase because of a note on the I/O hardware's manual, stating that the output monitor should have 1:1 pixel mapping in order to display at full screen material that is lower than 1920x1200. The thing is I often work with 720p footage (1280x720 25p) and I wouldn't like to have a monitor that displays my material at one third of its actual space, surrounded by a large portion of black. Matrox doesn't list a support email and its user forum - stupidly enough - is only for those who already have purchased a product. Anyone here with a similar experience or knowledge on the above is more than welcome to reply or point me to the correct direction.
Thanks in advance

The scaling is based off the current resolution for the monitor.If you set your full screen monitor to 720P resolution then Premiere will output full screen without black to that monitor. If you have the monitor set to 1080P resolution then you will have the black or scaled view. The Matrox MXO2 devices like almost all other I/O devices will tell the Monitor the native resolution that it needs to run when the device initializes based on your output settings for the device. So if you tell the MXO2 to output 720P res then it will output full screen to 720 on that monitor as long as that monitor supports that resolution which all should at this point. The process and output is the same but instead of manually setting the monitor resolution in the OS via the display panel, you are setting it via the I/O device's control panel such as the Matrox tools. The results are the same though.
Eric
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Matrox MXO2 mini

Hi
I have for some time used the Matrox MXO2 mini on one of my two Premiere Pro CC PC's, and wanted to share my experience in case others was wondering how it is.
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2_mini/
My config on the PC is:
ASUS X79 Pro board
32 GB RAM
GTX 570
I use it together with the Dell 24" 2410 monitor:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/43469-dell-ultrasharp-u2410- 24-ips-monitor-review.html
This monitor is end of life now, but there is a 2412, which probably is ok too. The reason for choosing this one, was that it was recommended on "the cow", because you are able to set it up to make a correct aspect ratio of the picture.
The hardware install is easy, you need one PCIe 1x slot for the card, and you just connect the card to the box, with a special interface cable.
I installed the latest drivers, ver. 7.5 from the Matrox site after first boot.
I setup the monitor and tested the aspects of the output with a circle in a photoshop file on the Premiere timeline and a ruler.
Inside the preferences of CC, you can choose to output the audio through the Matrox box (HDMI) or through Premiere (the output of the sound card from the PC). I use the PC output and go to my mixer, and the sync is perfect.
You can use the box together with AE and PS too, but I have not come so far yet, my main reason was to get output from Premiere.
There is a calibration utility, quite advanced, as far as I as newbie can see.
The output is very responsive when you switch from timeline to source monitor f.ex. and it works with the titler too, but it takes a few seconds to switch view to the tiler or back, to timeline before the monitor connected to the Matrox updates, but I think it's ok. You can start playback, and while you play back the timeline, the monitor will update after af few seconds of playback.
Ulf

Hi James,
Never mind the "firmware", anytime you change versions of Premiere then MXO2 is going to need a new DRIVER installed. The most recent to support CC is 7.5.1.1966 and available here - http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/downloads/
What version of Premiere did you come from? Starting with CS6, there are no longer "Matrox Sequences". Simply use ANY of the existing Adobe sequence presets and they automatically play out through MXO2 (assuming correct drivers are installed of course). Matrox output settings in CC will be under Edit > Preferences > Playback
Hope this gets you going.
Jeff Pulera
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BM Decklink Studio or Matrox MXO2 Mini?

Hi!
Wondering which option is better for I/O and external monitoring in Premiere CS6?
BM Decklink Studio or Matrox MXO2 Mini?
I need analog I/O + connect CRT and LCD monitors

Blackmagic Design has a much wider range of products, supported I/O types and resolutions. E.g. if you ever need 4K support, just swap the Studio card for the 4K Extreme, and you're all set.
That said, I prefer external breakout boxes like the MXO2 series or BMD UltraStudio series, rather than the Octopus type breakout cables that come with the Studio cards.

Questions Concerning the Matrox MXO2 Mini

Based on comments on this forum and other online research, I am seriously considering purchasing a Matrox MXO2 Mini for laptops along with the PCIe host card so that I can use the Mini on both my Macbook Pro (Unibody 2.53 Core2 Duo) and my Mac Pro (8-core Harpertown) and edit the captured footage in FCP7. I have a few questions that I could not find the answer to online, and I am hoping that you might be able to help.
The Matrox Mini is supposed to up-rez SD to HD on capture. How do those of you who use the Mini feel about this conversion of SD to HD? I know you can never really exceed the quality of your original SD material, so I am wondering if there is much to be gained by taking SD material and converting it to HD?
I would like to capture some analog material that is S-VHS recorded. The Mini can apparently do this through S-video, but I don't see any S-video connectors on the back of the unit in pictures I have looked at. Is this possible and how?
Finally, are there any caveats to using the MXO2 Mini, especially with a laptop? I shall be using a firewire 800 drive to capture the material to, and my Macbook Pro does have the Express 34 card slot required by the Matrox Mini.
Thank you very much in advance for any comments on this device that you care to make and for considering my questions above.
Tom

How do those of you who use the Mini feel about this conversion of SD to HD?
It equaled what I got with the big boy the MXO2. No, you cannot get any better quality converting SD to HD...if anything it will degrade the image as you are blowing it up. But, there are times we need to, and doing it via hardware in realtime is better than most software versions. Compressor can do a slightly better job, but when you set all the settings to best and let it crank away for days.
The upscale is good....very good.
so I am wondering if there is much to be gained by taking SD material and converting it to HD?
Nope. Only do it if you need to mix it with HD footage, if the HD footage is a majority of the footage, and you need to deliver and HD show. Going SD to HD, then back to SD for like DVD or DV makes zero sense. It will make the footage look worse.
Finally, are there any caveats to using the MXO2 Mini, especially with a laptop? I shall be using a firewire 800 drive to capture the material to, and my Macbook Pro does have the Express 34 card slot required by the Matrox Mini.
Not that I can think of. I did this with DVD and betaSP footage. zero issues.
Shane

Matrox MXO2 Mini & FCP

I posted this in Creative Cow as well. I thought I'd see if anyone here had some ideas...
I just got a MXO2 Mini and I have what I'm sure is a stupid question that's been asked and answered 100 times, but I can't find the answer.
I've connected Mini to my MBP via PCI slot. Connected LCD via HDMI to the box. No video. I've gone to View > Video Playback and my options are None and Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Main. I'm spitballing here, but I think I should have some more options. I've also tried External Video > All Frames. It resets to Off.
Any help for a self-admitted novice?
Thanks.

Hi,
yes you should see more options under that menu.
There should be several options starting with MXO2 Mini reporting all the different frame size and rates.
It looks like you haven't installed properly the software to manage your MXO2.
The software must be installed after FCS is already installed in your system, not before.
Also if you go under system profile and check for your CARDS, you should see a multimedia card with drivers reporting yes, when your card is recognized and the drivers are loaded.
Hope this might help figuring out what happened to your installation.
Regards,
Armando.

Color 1.5 and Matrox MXO2 Mini

Hey all. Just got the MXO2 Mini from Matrox which is really amazing. I use Apple, Adobe and Avid products so when Avid announced that this would be the device they will be compatible with I jumped on getting one. It works amazingly well in every product I've tested, Premiere, FCP, Compressor (for h.264 Max encodes), After Effects and so on. But I get into Apple Color and an odd thing happens, it plays the video I bring in in the little preview window on my second monitor but it old shows me a still of the frame I park on on my preview monitor. The codec is obviously working to an extent since the options for preview showed up in Color and that I saw picture when I selected it. But is the preview monitor only showing a still frame right or normal? Anyways thanks for any insight.

I disagree with nothing you've said. I already know Davinci having piloted a few sessions (though it's not my primary work by far) and I took to it much quicker than I took to Color. Though I have no issues with the learning curve on Color either. I think they are both great with equally good and bad support for 3rd party hardware. But I do think that Davinci is a more worth while product to use if you want to compete in the color correction profession.
The thing that bothers me about Apple's Final Cut Studio in the past 2 versions is that both stability and innovation seems to have stopped. Dvd Studio Pro has gotten no love for what 4 versions now? They push Quicktime as the core video technology behind all of their apps like FCP and Color yet when they've had ample time to modify Color's code to reflect their software compatibility needs things like the hardware issue I'm having pop up ONLY in Color. Just seems like Apple just wants to buy good apps, sell them in a bundle as inexpensive as they can to sell systems but they've lost their competitive edge with comparable NLE packages like Adobe's Production Suite CS5 or Avid MC. Not to mention they've done nothing to compete in the pro space with the advancements Avid makes every version. Not including the features coming in MC5, MC4s AMA already makes it faster to get editing than FCP was ever able to do. Plus, much like our Color VS Davnici conversation, if you learn Avid you learn software EVERY post house in the world has and uses. The workflows are standards. FCP doesn't have great workflow infrastructure and Apple doesn't seem interested in fixing that.
Why did I just go on that rant? Well I guess it's because I have to use these tools daily and though I see so much potential in Apple Color alone, I feel issues like the one I'm having right now show a serious lack in Apple's interest in keeping their software suite competitive and stable.

Matrox MX02 Mini and FCP 7...

We have been using the MX02 Mini essentially for HD monitoring and have run across a few issues that have hindered productivity. It appears that one or two of these issues have been fixed in the latest 2.2.1 software release. The following remain. Has anyone experienced the same?
1) Audio scrubbing... audio cannot be heard on a per frame basis, usually audio is heard every three
frames or so.
Apparently this has not been fixed.
2) Audio playback. In the viewer... Hit play... Playback begins but the audio drops out and then
resumes... hit stop and playback repeats the last bit of what was playing before you hit stop.
3) Audio distorts, similar to an analog overdrive sound, when hitting play every 10 times or so.
Most of the projects that we are working with are Apple Pro Res 422 @ 23.98, Audio 48khz/16 bits.
Most of our computers are as described... 2 x 2.26GHz Quad Core Mac Pro running 10.6.6 and FCP 7.0.3.
Hard drives are local external 2TB G-RAIDs with plenty of room. We have check all of our media to make sure that it matches our sequence settings.
I realize that there are Matrox advocates out there, but we seem to have a hard time getting the MX02 Minis to work reliably.
All ideas are welcome. Note that we are working with Matrox support as well.
Thanks,
Scott

1) Audio scrubbing... audio cannot be heard on a per frame basis, usually audio is heard every three frames or so. Apparently this has not been fixed.
Well, that actually is the main thing that was addressed in that update. I didn't have the issue for a while, then I upgraded to snow leopard, and there it was. But that was something with the 2.0 and first 2.1 drivers. But the latest driver that was just released, 2.1.1...fixes that. For a lot of people, me included:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/132/860478
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/132/860397
As for the other issues, that are all audio related... they should have been addressed too.
Make sure to update PROPERLY. Uninstall the older drivers, then restart. Install the new drivers... and when the updates erase and then update the firmware, when the computer will shut down, and you need to unplug the MXO2 mini for at least 5 seconds, then plug it back in. Then start up the system.
Shane

FS Matrox MXO2 Mini -- For Client Display

Hello Folks,
I'm selling a MXO2 Mini I have laying around on eBay. No minimum and no reserve, so it goes to the highest bidder.
This box works GREAT with Adobe CS6, btw.
And for anybody who might be interested, I'm also selling an Avid Mojo (original analog one), and a Sony DSR-45. All items are sold without minumums and no reserves, so let the bidding begin!
Matrox Link
DSR-45 Link
Avid Mojo Link
Have fun!

Hours to go. You folks who also use Avid Media Composer (pre v6) can pick up a Mojo super cheap.

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