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Is Matrox MXO2 Mini with MAX needed, or just the MXO2 Mini?
Building a new system to house CS5 Production Premium. Here are the specs…
ASUS P6X58D Premium
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz
12GB Corsair Dominator RAM
nVidia Quadro 4000 (Fermi)
Windows 7 64bitI’m wanting to add the Matrox MXO2 Mini to the mix, but I’m wondering if the MAX Technology will enhance my H.264 encoding since the nVidia card is designed to accentuate it as well? In other words, will it take over the encoding functions of the Quadro, or enhance them?
As I’m writing this, I start to get the feeling that I should direct this question to Matrox, however, I’d like some impressions from the gallery here.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
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Hi Steve,
I just got a new PC demo system at work with almost identical specs, uses FX 3800 video card. Will try some H.264 encoding with and without Matrox and see how the encode times look
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor -
Thanks Jeff,
Hey…you guys probably have a Fermi based card lying around, why not toss it in?
Just kidding..
When I get mine together I’ll run some comparatives as well.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Hi Steve,
Crazy day at work, got to play with encoding tests only briefly.
1920×1080 project in CS5 using AVCHD clips, same computer as yours but using FX 3800 GPU.
A one-minute sequence encoded to H.264 Blu-ray took :60 using MAX, 1:30 without. In previous tests using CS4, advantage was bigger with Matrox. Seems that CUDA is indeed being used in CS5 to enhance Adobe encodes.
That said, the MAX technology is also used with CS5 to provide several Matrox RT Effects (Primary and Secondary Color Correction, Chroma and Luma Keying, slow-motion, etc.) so MAX benefits are not limited to H.264 encoding, but overall playback performance is enhanced as well.
I can get perfect playback of multi-layer AVCHD projects using MXO2 Mini with MAX, while same layout in an Adobe-native sequence will stutter.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor -
Jeff,
That’s interesting that Matrox has moved the CC plugins to the Max option.
I had asked them if they had considered doing non rt.x2/axio version of the plug-ins, because I like the tools regardless of their real time capabilities…
Alex
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