H264 Render Times

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Paul,

Does your MXO2 have the MAX option? If not, then Matrox has no bearing on the H.264 export times.

My experience using CS5 or CS5.5, on a Core i7-2600 machine with Nvidia graphics (Mercury GPU) is that an HD timeline going out to web formats is roughly realtime, while encoding to Blu-ray takes maybe 1.5x realtime.

If you have older PC technology, like Core i7-9xx technology or older, or do NOT have an Nvidia GPU, then it will take longer.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Paul Rozon]

Yes I do have the max board and the computer is new. Sounds like I am getting the same results as you on blurry.

It is a new system and i Just wanted to be sure my system was performing properly.

Thanks

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Paul,

Make sure you are choosing a Matrox export preset to take advantage of the MAX hardware. The “Matrox 264 for Bluray” profile should be realtime. Using any of the Adobe-native H.264 presets will not use the MAX hardware.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Paul Rozon]

Jeff

Thanks for the heads up on the Matrox export settings. I did not notice them. I went straight to the H264 encode.

Now that I know they are there I have gone to use them and video is disabled on matrox bluray and matrox Mp4. I know I purchased the MAX board and the Matrox unit has the MAX logo on it. Is this an indicator that the Board is not activated in some way?