Specifying Matrox Max H.264 Settings For Apple Compressor; Assigning A Matrox Max H.264 Setting - Matrox MXO2 Installation And User Manual

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Specifying Matrox MAX H.264 settings for
Apple Compressor
The Matrox MAX H.264 component for Apple Compressor includes predefined
Matrox MAX H.264 settings that you can assign to immediately apply
appropriate compression settings for delivering H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web,
and mobile devices. You can also create custom Matrox MAX H.264 settings for
Apple Compressor. For detailed information on settings and other
Compressor-related subjects, see your Apple Compressor documentation.
The Matrox MAX H.264 Blu-ray settings are for video only. Audio is not
encoded by the Matrox MAX H.264 codec when creating H.264 elementary
streams. However, audio is encoded when using a Matrox MAX H.264 setting for
QuickTime files.
The Matrox MAX H.264 elementary stream files that you create using
Compressor can be imported directly to Adobe Encore CS4 and Roxio Toast
without having to transcode the files.

Assigning a Matrox MAX H.264 setting

This section describes how to assign a Matrox MAX H.264 setting to your source
file in Apple Compressor. The Matrox MAX H.264 settings include the
predefined settings installed with your CompressHD software, and any custom
settings that you create (see
page 75).
¡ Important To use the Matrox MAX H.264 codec with Apple Compressor, you
must activate the codec (see
H.264 codec"
Open Apple Compressor and add the source media file that you want to
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export as an H.264 file to the Batch window in Compressor.
Drag the desired Matrox MAX H.264 setting from the Settings tab to your
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source media file (job) in the Batch window.
¦ Note
your MXO2 MAX software can be found in the Settings tab, under Custom
> Matrox Settings
If you're exporting to Blu-ray format and you want to export audio, you must
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add a separate audio setting to your Batch window. Matrox provides
predefined audio settings for each of the Matrox settings. You can, however,
choose to use another audio setting.
Choose a destination for your job's targets and submit your batch as you
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normally would.
Chapter 9, Using the Matrox MAX H.264 codec
"Creating a new Matrox MAX H.264 setting"
"Activating and deactivating the Matrox MAX
on page 72) before opening Apple Compressor.
The predefined Matrox MAX H.264 settings that are installed with
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