MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record
by mandeep singh
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Sep 3, 2009 at 10:22:54 am
Hello i have heard and reviewed the matrox mxo2 mini and i must say even after all the reading i still am not clear on it.
I have a sony vaio 2.3 ghz,2gbram i cannot edit hd video on it, i want to buy a device that will give me more calculation or in simple words give me more power that i can attach to my laptop and edit hd video.
WIll it provide me support in rendering faster composites on aftereffects.
So i mean will it only provide input output or will it do some calculation stuff too.
Re: MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record by Andy Mees on Sep 3, 2009 at 12:23:32 pm
[mandeep singh]"i want to buy a device that will give me more calculation or in simple words give me more power that i can attach to my laptop and edit hd video."
The MXO2 is an I/O device ... in essence it simple provides HD and SD video inputs and outputs to your laptop so that it can more easily take in and put out HD and SD video signals. It is not an accelerator for your laptop in the sense that you describe and will not give it more power to edit HD video.
[mandeep singh]"WIll it provide me support in rendering faster composites on aftereffects."
No.
[mandeep singh]"So i mean will it only provide input output or will it do some calculation stuff too."
As noted, it is an I/O device. However, if you but the 'MAX' version then it also provides hardware assisted H.264 encoding. That means you can use it to transcode HD and SD clips and sequences to high quality H.264 files for delivery (to Web, Bluray etc) at faster than realtime speeds. Note that this is a final export / delivery task, it is not providing hardware assisted rendering to your general editing tasks.
Re: MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record by mandeep singh on Sep 3, 2009 at 2:18:53 pm
Thank you andy it brings me to the question that is there anything that can provide that or is it that editing can only be done on desktop with lot of ram and a capture card only. I need help in this coz i have got a project and i was about to buy matrox mxo2. So it means a blackintensity card is better? or do i simply need a quadcore with some heavy duty card in it to edit videos .
Till this time i had been doing on someones machine and i have got project on my own so i am completely puzzled .
Re: MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record by mandeep singh on Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14:15 pm
All i want to know is will i be able to view live transitions with this matrox mxo2 mini or is it just a box to capture video i dont get it if it doesnt work for video editing then what is mobile solution for editing.
Re: MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record by Andy Mees on Sep 3, 2009 at 5:07:56 pm
Hi Mandeep, I'll try to be more clear.
If you are looking for something to accelerate the your processing of effects with your timeline and/or some means of supercharging your NLE then there is no third party I/O device that is going to meet your requirements, not the MXO2 nor the Blackmagic Intensity nor any other. For that you need a more powerful computer with more RAM.
A mobile solution for editing is a portable means to ingest, edit (with monitoring), and output whilst working from a mobile computer (usually a laptop). This is what the MXO2 line of products provide. They are not render accelerators. The MXO2 will allow you to capture from most common consumer format cameras and many pr format cameras directly to your computer in a number of supported codecs. With the MXO2 you will then be able to view your real time capable edits in full resolution on a broadcast monitor via the devices outputs, without which you would only be able to view a lower resolution preview of the same edits within your NLE's interface. When your edit is complete the MXO2 would then allow you to record your full resolution output to tape or other recording format; additionally, with the MAX option, you would be able to produce hardware accelerated high quality H264 encodes of your edits for many modern delivery platforms.
Does that help? I'd have to be brutally frank at this point and say that the device is only really useful to those who understand what its for ... if you're honestly not getting it at this point then its probably very likely that you don't really need one.
Re: MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record by mandeep singh on Sep 4, 2009 at 6:51:47 am
Haha Hey i dont mind harsh , i know sometimes you have to, but i need to start asking from somewhere right,i am a noob. Actually i have been in 3d , video is new to me.
I understand the need of faster computer, what i am asking is that with mxo2 is same as blackmagic declink extreme(desktop). And can i VIEW AND EDIT an hd footage with it in realtime.
For example I just want to see a live preview of color correction using colorista,when i apply that effect and view on computer my computer does not play it beyond 5fps, but i want to SEE effect applied and i want to scrub the movie frames . Then i want to save my file in after effects and render on a better computer .
And do i need an external monitor with mxo2 or can i view its output in my computer.
Or not complicating my post i know what DeckLink HD Extreme does, so i want to ask is mxo2 exactly a external hardware with capabilities like black magic DeckLink HD Extreme
Re: MXO2 mini Does it Provides calculation or just record by Andy Mees on Sep 4, 2009 at 7:46:40 am
what i am asking is that with mxo2 is same as blackmagic declink extreme(desktop)
Yep, thats it exactly Mandeep. The MXO2 provides the same functions to your laptop, via its ExpressCard/34 slot connection, as is typically provided by a Blackmagic Decklink or Kona card (as installed in a desktop system). Bear in mind that the various different versions of the MXO2 provide more or less of these functions/capabilities with the MXO2 Mini being the entry level model (which compares very favorably with the BMD Intensity cards) and its the bigger brothers, the MXO2 and MXO2 Rack, being comparable to AJA's Kona 3 cards.
