Yup, I do have a Matrox Rt.X100 and one of the key selling points for me was the realtime MPEG2 encoder. Such a time saver when making DVDs.

The RT.X100 does have a baby brother, the RT.X10 which does realtime editting (to a slightly lesser degree) but as far as I could tell, has no realtime MPEg2 encoder.

I do not know of another realtime MPEg2 encoder cards for Premiere pro. I'm sure there must be a few out there but I'm not familiar with them.

You migth find ebay a good bet for picking up the h/w though. I've seen posts before where people bought the h/w just for the Adobe s/w bundle that came with it (another key selling point) and thenjust sell on the h/w.

Alternatively, with the more recent advent towards high def, which the Matrix card does NOT support btw, people may be offloading their cards.

Sorry I can't offer more.

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