Welcome To Matrox Compresshd; Matrox Compresshd System Requirements; Supported Programs; About This Manual - Matrox CompressHD Installation And User Manual

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Welcome to Matrox CompressHD

Matrox CompressHD is an H.264 accelerator card that lets you quickly and
easily export material to H.264 files for Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile
devices. Matrox CompressHD is the first implementation of Matrox MAX
technology that lets you create H.264 files for resolutions ranging from iPod to
HD, and it works in systems with or without a video I/O device.

Matrox CompressHD system requirements

Matrox CompressHD requires a computer system with the following
configuration:
• A computer that supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), such as an
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 or later.
• Dual-CPU, or one dual-core CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, or Home Premium (64-bit)
with Service Pack 1.
• 4 GB of RAM.
• One free PCIe slot.

Supported programs

• Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5.1, Media Encoder 5.5.1, Encore 5.1, and After
Effects 10.5.
For up-to-date information about system requirements, check the Matrox
CompressHD Support section of our website at www.matrox.com/video/support.

About this manual

This manual provides you with information about installing and using your
Matrox CompressHD card, including how to use Matrox CompressHD to export
material with Adobe Media Encoder.

Style conventions

The following style conventions are used in this manual:
• The names of files, folders, and manuals appear in italics. For example:
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• Menus and commands that you need to choose are displayed in the form
Menu > Command
menu bar, then click Save in the menu that appears.
Chapter 1, Introducing Matrox CompressHD
The data is stored in the Sample.wav file.
The file is located in your C:\Windows\System folder.
Please refer to your Matrox CompressHD Release Notes.
. For example, File > Save means click File in the