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S-Video / Hardware Acceleration on Mac?
Hello all
I’m looking at moving over to a Mac for my next editor – my contempt for Windows is quickly outweighing my love of Adobe.
I’m currently using a Matrox RT.X100, which gives me hardware acceleration, hardware based MPEG and DV encoding, along with RCA/S-Video in and out. Are there any comparable products on the Mac?
I absolutely need to have S-Video in and out, or else it’s a no sale. I also really would like to have hardware based MPEG encoding, which blows software encoding completely out of the water.
Thanks for the advice.
CoolJay
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3 Replies
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AJA Io has all analog I/O including S-Video. If you’re just working in DV codecs only, you could purchase a Canopus ADVC-100 which has S-Video I/O.
There is an MPEG-2 encoding board out there for the Mac, I just can’t remember what it is. I just use Compressor which comes with Final Cut Pro. I really don’t care to spend any money on an MPEG-2 encoder as DVD’s are not my main focus here.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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[Walter Biscardi] “There is an MPEG-2 encoding board out there for the Mac, I just can’t remember what it is.”
Optibase has the Mpeg 2 board
gary adcock
Studio37
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[CoolJay] ” I also really would like to have hardware based MPEG encoding, which blows software encoding completely out of the water.”
Hi,
You could do your MPEG encoding on a PC and everything else on a Mac.
Best Wishes,
Mitch
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