Overview - Matrox MXO2 Installation And User Manual

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Overview

The Matrox MAX H.264 Capture application lets you use your Matrox MXO2
product with MAX technology or a Matrox CompressHD card to capture clips
directly to Matrox MAX H.264 files for Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile
devices. You can also use this application to capture clips to Matrox MPEG-2
I-frame or uncompressed .avi files.
You can capture material from any of your MXO2's video and audio inputs, and
monitor the source material that you're capturing using the MXO2 video and
audio outputs. Matrox presets are provided for capturing clips to various formats
for creating .264, .mp4, and .avi files. This includes presets for creating .264
elementary stream files in HD formats that are supported for Blu-ray Disc
authoring using Adobe Encore, and .mp4 files suitable for the web and mobile
devices. Your Matrox .264 elementary stream files can be imported to Adobe
Encore without having to transcode the files.
Remarks
• When performing a capture, your MXO2 hardware won't be available for
use with any other application. For example, you'll be able to work in Adobe
Premiere Pro, but you won't be able to perform a capture or export to a
Matrox MAX H.264 file, and the video preview and output won't be updated
until your capture is complete.
• If your MXO2 hardware is in use by another application while running the
Matrox MAX H.264 Capture application, you'll get a warning and you
won't be able to perform a capture or preview your video input until your
MXO2 hardware becomes available.
• If you want to run Adobe Encore at the same time as the Matrox MAX
H.264 Capture application, you must set your video and audio output devices
in Encore to Adobe devices only.
Chapter 18, Using Matrox MAX H.264 Capture