Matrox MAX Technology (Discontinued)

Deliver H.264 video up to 5 times faster without sacrificing quality!
If you’re delivering H.264 content for the web, mobile devices, Apple TV, and Blu-ray discs, you know how painful it can be to wait for the long encoding times needed to create high-quality video files using software only. You might even be tempted to sacrifice quality for speed. With Matrox MAX technology, you no longer need to even consider making that trade off.

Matrox MAX for Mac is a unique technology that implements faster than realtime H.264 encoding for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD. It is available in the Matrox CompressHD1 accelerator card and the Matrox MXO2 family2 of I/O devices. It uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for the web, Apple TV, Blu-ray discs, and mobile devices inclu-ding iPad, iPhone, and iPod. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Quality and flexibility are ensured through direct integration with Apple Compressor and support for other applications on the Mac such as Telestream Episode, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Media Encoder, and QuickTime Pro through the QuickTime codec component.

Product Code: MAXTechnology

Key Features of Matrox MAX Technology for the Mac

Faster than realtime creation of H.264 files1, for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD
A specialized, dedicated hardware processor liberates system resources for other tasks
Accelerated encoding for Blu-ray, Apple TV, YouTube, Flash, web formats, and mobile devices including iPad, iPhone, and iPod from various video sources including SD, HD, and RED proxy files up to 2K
Direct integration with Apple Compressor to simplify workflow
Support for Telestream Episode, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer2, Adobe Media Encoder, and QuickTime Pro through the QuickTime codec component
Customizable encoding parameters including VBR, CBR, constant quality, scene detection, noise filtering and many more
Creation of Blu-ray H.264 files that can be authored in Apple Compressor 3.5, Adobe Encore CS4, and Roxio Toast 10 then burned without re-encoding
Support for Apple Qmaster to take advantage of multiple systems with a Matrox MAX processing engine for distributed encoding across a network