Compressor 3.5 Batch Templates and Job Actions

Recently Apple rolled out Final Cut Studio 3, which updated Final Cut Pro to 7 and Compressor to 3.5. While this article is about Compressor 3.5, it is important to note that, in FCP 7, there is a new command, ‘Send To Compressor’, which replaces the previous ‘Export Using Compressor’ function. In the past, when [...]

Final Cut Studio’s Motion 4

With all the new features in Motion (and across the the whole studio), $299 is a very affordable upgrade price Star Wars Episode 1 and Apple’s new Final Cut Studio have something in common, and that is the hype. Final Cut Studio has been hyped for more than a year, and every time someone blogged [...]

Attention Gamers: Use the Matrox MXO2 Mini to capture your Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game play via HDMI to your PC or Mac

Over the past few months we have been getting tons of phone calls and emails from gamers looking for a portable and affordable solution for capturing their Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 gaming directly to their computer in HD. Many of you then want to post it to video sharing sites like Youtube, Vimeo and [...]

Matrox CompressHD Test Drive

Millimeter by Jan Ozer    A funny thing happened on the way to this installment of Affordable HD. Psyched by the arrival of the outstanding liquid-cooled HP Z800 (read about the Z800′s liquid-cooling system), I has scheduled a review of Matrox’s hot, new H.264 co-processor board, CompressHD, figuring if the card could outperform HP’s 3.2GHz [...]