[Jake Graff]

We’re running CatDV Worker Node on a 8-core Intel xServe with 12GB of RAM. The source material is QT wrapped XDCAM and I’m generating h.264 proxies for preview using the Worker Node. In testing, I was first using the CPU to create the h.264 files. Performance was roughly 1.5x real-time. I then tested with a Matrox CompressHD hardware card. Using the card, we’re seeing real-time performance. Similar to the suggested x264 codec, Matrox installs settings within QuickTime that allow you to make use of the card. An added benefit to using the card is that the CPU is still available for other processes. You could run CatDV Server and Worker Node on the same machine or anything else you may need the horsepower for.

-Jake