Premiere Pro for DSLR in a few easy steps

  The Adobe application’s handling of DSLR and other card-based media is straightforward and quick, as it should be. Let’s face it, a lot more editors, artists and animators have Premiere Pro loaded on the systems they use every day than are actually using it. And yet over the last few years—and in particular over [...]

Matrox performs to the MAX at Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is recognized globally as one of the great opera houses. Its productions travel worldwide, are performed live in other opera houses and screened in cinemas from New York to Tokyo. Yet it remains a very English institution.  

Video compression

Here’s a technical comparison between MPEG-2, H.264 and JPEG 2000. Broadcasters have a range of choices when it comes to signal compression solutions. For advanced, professional-grade compression, MPEG-2, H.264 and JPEG 2000 are all viable options. Ultimately, network infrastructure, bandwidth requirements and budget all help to define the “right” choice for a broadcaster. MPEG-2 and [...]

Export H.264 from Avid MC5 with MAX

Maximum…Max.  I’m talking the Matrox MAX system…the H.264 encoding engine in their MXO2 with MAX product line, and the CompressHD card.  You might have thought that this only worked on the APPLE stuff…Compressor and FCP.  But no…it works on the Avid Media Composer side too.  Because the Matrox MXO2 Mini is designed to work as [...]