With a suggested retail price of $495, the Matrox CompressHD is not for the average consumer. The card is a great investment, though, for the professional that does a lot of H.264 encoding. With its ability to encode HD video in less than realtime, the CompressHD will quickly justify its cost in the amount of time saved. The Matrox MAX H.264 codec is also flexible enough to output video in formats suitable for Blu-ray Disc authoring as well as the web and mobile devices. Most importantly, the video created by the CompressHD is on par with what Adobe Media Creator can output using its own H.264 codec.



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