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Matrox Compress HD

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Matrox Compress HD

Matrox Compress HD


This board adds the same functionality as seen with any of the MAX versions of the MXO2 range of devices.  If you buy a non-MAX MXO2 you can effectively make it into a MAX version by adding a Compress HD to your system.  The MAX versions of MXO2s add two things to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5:

1. Accelerated export of H264 into various formats.
2. Realtime playback of Matrox effects and other "Matrox acceleration" to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

If you have a non-MAX MXO2 and add the Compress HD card then you non-MAX MXO2 will behave like a MAX version, adding the above features as well.

You can also add the MAX card to a system using other hardware - like theMatrox RT.X2 or Axio or even a Black Magic card.  This will add the fast encoding into Blu-ray and other h264 formats to these systems. It does not add the range of Matrox realtime effects, although the Matrox RT.X2 or Axio will have them anyway since they come with the same range of effects built-in as the MXO2 range of devices.

Compress HD will work on Mac or PC.



£340.42 +VAT , £408.50 inc. VAT inc. VAT at 20%


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Compress HD, Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Encore

Compress HD works as part of the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) - so to export using Compress HD just select your timeline and send it to AME in the normal way.

The speed of encoding does vary depending on the complexity of your edit, how many effects you have added etc.., but for straight cuts it is at least as fast as real time - i.e.: 1 minute would take 1 minute to make.  Compare this to the speed of using just software where a minute of original HD footage could take 4-5 minutes and you can see the benefit of using the Compress HD. 

  • Compress HD will make footage in profile 4.0 and 4.1 - which means you can maintain the quality of your footage by using the highest data rates, or drop it to get more on a disc. Currently Compress HD only handles constant bit rate encoding, which is fairly typical for hardware based encoders.
  • With CS5 Compress HD will work inside Adobe Encore as well as in Adobe Media Encoder.  When you choose to use Compress HD in Encore you have to manually set the bitrate rather than  let Encore work it out, but that is the only disadvantage.  The huge advantage is, of course, the speed!
  • Compress HD works at either 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720 resolutions.  This means for HDV users their timeline will be scaled to full HD for the Blu-ray disc.  Our speed tests have been done using HDV footage on an RT.X2 with Compress HD scaling the footage to full size - where it took 1 minute to make 1 minute H264 footage.  Compress HD also handles 720P sizes - something the equivalent for EDIUS, the FireCoder Blu does not.
  • Compress HD also handles lower resolutions - so it will be faster at making your footage for an iPOD, for example.


  • Click here to download Matrox Compress HD information for PC

    Click here to download Matrox Compress HD information for Mac

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