Matrox MX02 LE with Max…yay or nay

[Jason Brown]

[Gino Kalkanoglu] “You also need to export a movie file and dump it in compressor in order for MAX technology to work its magic.”

You are wrong. I do send to compressor all the time…and keep working in FCP. It works amazingly.

And, although I use compressor for all of my matrox encoding, I believe that codec is open to using in Quicktime 7 – Episode Pro – and Adobe Media Encoder (there were issues with running it through AME on mac, but I think they have been worked out)

From a speed and quality perspective…Matrox offers the best (IMHO) solution.

I used to use sorenson all the time…and I wasn’t a fan of compressor at first, but it has grown on me. Most things I want to do, I can do…but it’s not as simple and understandable of an interface as Squeeze 5 was for me.

-Jason

[Gino Kalkanoglu]

You are right about Matrox MXO2 series being the best product in its category out there, Jason.
Yet, there is a significant quality and file size difference between compressor and Sorenson 6.
I use compressor to encode my mpeg 2 program stream files for the show we produce. Well, that takes about 3.5 hours with instancing on an ’08 3.2GHZ Octo. (From AIC 1920X1080 H.264 MPEG 4.3, 4:2:0 to NTSC) For the internet, MXO2 mini MAX is blazingly fast for the content we produce for internet.
I need to check and see what I am doing wrong. Every time, I send the content directly from the FCP timeline to compressor, it takes whole a lot longer to encode. I will go over my workflow to see what I am doing wrong. Thanks for the tip Jason.

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[Gino Kalkanoglu]

How you been Jason,

I made a mistake about mpeg2 4.3.
Program stream mpeg2 with certain megabits. Let me know if you want to know. And that is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_program_stream

4.3 I was referring to old Mpeg 4.3 which is this
https://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/365/mark/material/notes/Chap4/Chap4.3/Chap4.3.html

As you learn the algorithms, they are a lot of fun. I love it.

The recent algorithm engines are more fun and contains broad capability. Matrox MAX is awesome for that reason. Compressor is great, too. I think Apple should have whatever next generation Ipad have the FCP compatbility to have some faders, and short cut buttons like Euphonix. I think they should team up with Euphonix to come up with some serious Ipad/Euphonix collaboration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
I like this one as well.

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