MONTREAL, Canada­-(Feb. 08, 2001 ) Matrox Video Products Group today announced that its RT2000 realtime video editing card has begun shipping with the new Adobe Premiere 6.0 software in North America.

Matrox is offering a FREE upgrade to Adobe Premiere 6.0 for customers who purchased Matrox products bundled with Adobe Premiere 5.1 between November 11, 2000 and April 1, 2001. Customers pay for shipping and handling charges only

Matrox RT2000 is a native-DV and MPEG-2 nonlinear editing solution for corporate and event video artists, and video enthusiasts. 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 RT2000 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 6.0 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.

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