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Apple's NVIDIA Driver Update 1.0 improves the stability and compatibility of NVIDIA cards in the PowerMac G4 when used in combination with the Matrox RTMac Card, insuring better quality playback and filtering.
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It's a realtime transition/effects board for use with Final Cut Pro, basically, you pop in this $1k card, and you get most of the transitions and some effects done by this card. It also has composite/svideo in/out and does analogue, digital audio/videoo conversion, along with driving an additional monitor.
$1k card? damn, pro suff!
$1000 is nothing if that's your trade. A system capable of doing what a G4 with MatroxRT and Final Cut Pro can do would have cost $50,000 not too long ago. Three years ago it cost around $5,000 just to speed up QuickTime encoding.
Actually they lowered the price of the RTMac to about $600. Still expensive, but it does a lot, analog in/out, real-time rendering. And it's still faster and better quality for doing real-time effects than the built in RT processing of Final Cut Pro 3. But it's not OS X compatible yet. They say they're working on it. If you really want something nice, I like the Aurora boards. Igniter, Fuse, etc. Talk about expensive, but OS X compatible.
Expensive, yes, but not so much when one considers that Wintel Gamers spend this sort of dough on their game machines, while a Powermac G4 outfitted with a Matrox card can do professional video editing better than a comparable Wintel machine.
Only problem is using OS 9. As soon as OS X is in full force, nobody is going to want to use Windows!
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Fix my flashes damn it!
I was hoping this would be the fix for the GF4MX -LCD flashes but it seems like its only for the Matrox RTMac Card combo. What is that anyway?