Anyone involved with delivering video content knows how incredibly efficent and stunning beautiful the h.264 codec is. It produces exceptional video quality at impressively low data rates for both streaming and stored formats. It is used for streaming and messaging video delivery, popular web sites like YouTube, Vimeo and ExposureRoom, and it is the codec of choice for blu-ray discs. The downside: encoding to h.264, even on powerful computers, takes forever. Continue reading »
If you are like me, when you hear a company say “hey, we mix and match formats and frame rates, all in real time and all at broadcast quality,” you ask, “how on God’s green Earth can you do that?”
I mean, how do you take a 1080i sequence full of 1080i XDCAM clips, then add a DV clip, and have it all play at broadcast quality. WHAT broadcast quality? Is the DV clip now XDCAM quality? Or is it now playing DV quality out of the system? And how does Media Composer handle the frame rate issue? Not the way FCP does it with 2:2:2:4…oh please no. And really? Mix 25p and 1080i 29.97? Really? HOW!?
Well, I got to ask those questions. And here are the answers.
Your sequence setting is what you tell it. 1080i, 720p, 525i…whathaveyou. And whatever clip you add to that that ISN’T that format, gets scaled to that format…using a filter called a MOTION ADAPTER. This add interpolation to match the sequence settings, and this is added automatically when you add new footage that doesn’t match. And there are all sorts of interpolation modes…these are all user selectable. read more…
Turn your work flow from days into hours… from hours into minutes!
Add power and performance to your Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 workflow with the recently introduced Elemental™ Accelerator, a high–speed, high–quality video processing solution. Leveraging the NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture, Elemental Accelerator allows videographers to perform GPU–accelerated video encoding with a Quadro FX Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), delivering a performance increase of up to 11X compared to CPU–only video encoders. By executing demanding processing tasks on the GPU, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds video encoding, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment.
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Elemental Accelerator performs GPU–accelerated conversion of commonly distributed digital video formats to H.264/AVC output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu–ray disc. Plus, with version 2.1, Elemental Accelerator will add support for high–speed MPEG–2 video encoding for DVD media or digital broadcast output. Support for MPEG–2 encoding will be available via a free upgrade to existing Elemental Accelerator customers.
Elemental Accelerator is enabled for a wide range of Quadro FX GPUs including the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800, Quadro FX 3800, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 4800 for Mac, Quadro FX 5800, Quadro FX 2700M and Quadro FX 3700M. For the first time, Mac Pro users have a GPU–accelerated encoding solution, with the new Elemental Accelerator 1.2 for Mac OS X combined with the Quadro FX 4800 for MAC. Elemental Accelerator and Quadro FX bundles Elemental Accelerator is now bundled with Quadro FX 1800, FX 3800, and FX 4800, offering dramatic savings over the cost of purchasing these items separately. |
Drivers now available for Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices and Matrox CompressHD H.264 encoder card
(Amsterdam-IBC, The Netherlands–September 10, 2009) Matrox Video Products Group today announced that release 1.6 for Matrox MXO2, Matrox MXO2 Rack, Matrox MXO2 Mini, and Matrox CompressHD is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users. Continue reading »
