Realtime Flex CPU effects
The Matrox Axio LE relies on the power of your CPU to perform a variety of realtime and accelerated effects.
The Matrox Flex CPU effects are also available in Adobe After Effects. If you have a timeline in Premiere Pro with any of the Matrox Flex CPU effects and you copy/paste the timeline into After Effects, the Matrox effects will remain intact. This is a huge time saver, given that these effects are realtime in Premiere Pro.
Realtime primary color correction
Realtime secondary color correction
Realtime chroma and luma keying
Realtime speed changes
Realtime transitions
Realtime track matte
Realtime SD clip upscaling in an HD timeline
Realtime HD clip downscaling in an SD timeline
Realtime move & scale
Realtime native Adobe Premiere Pro effects and transitions
Realtime timecode
Realtime primary color correction
Primary color correction is a critically important effect for all productions, whether to achieve continuity when cutting between shots, ensure broadcast safe levels, or establish and emphasize a "look". The primary color corrector provides basic proc amp control; three-way color correction complete with master, shadows, midtones and highlights control; input/output level control; and RGB curves control.
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Realtime proc amp controls
Matrox Axio LE lets you easily adjust four proc amp controls - hue, saturation, brightness, and contrast. Hue adjusts the tint of the colors in the image, saturation adjusts the vividness, contrast adjusts the difference in luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of the image, and brightness adjusts the level of black. You can also use these controls to create special effects, such as black and white, in real time.
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Realtime color match and color balance
Colors can be corrected using nine parameters related to the black (shadow), midtone, and white (highlight) levels of your clips. You can easily match colors or balance blacks, whites, and grays against a reference shot in one simple step.
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Realtime input/output level control
Using the histogram display and level controls, luminance levels can be remapped to maximize the dynamic range of a clip. For example, bright areas can be made brighter and dark areas can be made darker. Five parameters are available - black, white, and gamma levels on the input; and black and white levels on the output. Auto white and auto black controls are also provided.
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Realtime RGB curves control
RGB curves control offers a fast, natural way to fine-tune the colors in your video. If, for example, you want to remove a blue tint from your video, you simply drag the blue curve down. With RGB curves you can also achieve wild color effects and other looks that are otherwise impossible.
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Realtime secondary color correction
The secondary color corrector is an advanced tool used for fine-tuning or dramatic effects creation. It offers all the controls found in the primary color correction filter with the added capability of limiting the effect to a specific range of pixels. Pixel selection can be done using color and/or brightness. Using the simple garbage matte tool, you can also limit the effect to a specific region. The pixel selection can also be inverted.
The secondary color corrector can be used, for example, to change the color of a dress, deepen the background sky color, or to achieve an effect similar to the film Schindler's List where only one object or person remains in color while the rest of the image becomes black and white.
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Realtime chroma and luma keying
Matrox Axio LE provides one of the finest realtime chroma keyers in the industry. It makes clean blue- and green-screen keys easy to achieve, even with DV and HDV material shot in less than optimal lighting conditions. It upsamples your video to 4:4:4:4 resolution and uses advanced noise reduction algorithms to ensure superior results. The auto key button intelligently adjusts the key with soft edges, spill removal, and shadow preservation. If needed, you can further refine the key with manual controls. The Matrox Axio chroma keyer lets you key on any color, not just blue and green. It also lets you invert the selection and display the matte being generated to fine tune the key.
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The realtime luma keyer gives you low clip, low gain, high clip, high gain, and transparency controls.
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Realtime speed changes
You can use speed changes to emphasize special moments, extend the duration of shots to match voice-over timing, or enhance the feeling of dramatic shots. Matrox Axio LE lets you apply smooth slow and fast motion with field or frame blending.
Realtime transitions
Matrox Axio LE supports standard dissolves, SMPTE wipes, and organic wipes with soft edges and color borders.
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Realtime track matte
The realtime track matte effect lets you superimpose one clip onto another using an animated matte, sometimes called a traveling matte, to determine how the two clips are composited (keyed). You can use a grayscale video or graphics clip as your matte, or use a graphics clip or graphics sequence with an alpha channel as your matte. When using a grayscale clip as your matte, areas of black in the matte create transparent areas in your foreground clip, areas of white create opaque areas that prevent the underlying clip from showing through, and gray areas create semi-transparent areas in your foreground clip.
Realtime SD clip upscaling in an HD timeline
This effect is enabled by right-clicking on an SD clip in an HD timeline and selecting "scale to frame size". It provides realtime playback of SD clips upscaled to HD to let you mix NTSC material into a 1080i at 29.97 fps timeline or PAL material into a 1080i at 25 fps timeline. It also provides realtime playback of 576p or 486p SD clips upscaled to HD to mix into a 1080p timeline.
Realtime HD clip downscaling in an SD timeline
This effect is enabled by right-clicking on an HD clip in an SD timeline and selecting "scale to frame size". It provides realtime playback of HD clips downscaled to SD to let you mix 1080i at 29.97 fps material into an NTSC timeline or 1080i at 25 fps material into a PAL timeline. It also provides realtime playback of HD 1080p clips downscaled to SD to mix into a 576p or 486p SD timeline.
Realtime move & scale
This effect lets you apply multiple 2D DVEs simultaneously in real time to easily set up picture-inpicture effects. You can also use the move & scale effect to animate multiple titles in real time.
Realtime native Adobe Premiere Pro effects and transitions
Some of Adobe Premiere Pro’s most popular native effects and transitions such as Opacity, Crop, Dip to Black, Black and White, Dissolve, and Additive Dissolve can be used in real time on Matrox Axio LE in SD. These effects and transitions are accelerated in HD.
Realtime timecode
Axio LE overwrites the Adobe Premiere Pro timecode filter so that it becomes realtime. The realtime timecode effect lets you generate and overlay a timecode counter on a video production. You can use it to make a dub of source tapes with timecode "burn-in" then use these tapes to log scenes, create edit decision lists, or get client feedback on your finished production.
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