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Grass Valley

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Pegasus

Grass Valley Pegasus

Reviewer’s Guide

October 2007

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Summary of Contents for Grass Valley Pegasus

Page 1: ...October 2007 2007 Thomson All rights reserved Grass Valley is a trademark of Thomson All other trademarks are properties of their respective holders All specifications are subject to change without n...

Page 2: ...anguages 4 1 8 Descriptors for press Web sites etc 5 1 9 Technical Specifications 6 1 10 System Requirements 8 1 11 Package Contents 9 1 12 Frequently Asked Questions FAQs 10 2 Pegasus Features and Be...

Page 3: ...alley s EDIUS line of NLE solutions the Canopus HQ codec offers supreme visual quality without the excessive hard disk storage costs normally associated with HD video ingest With Pegasus you can be as...

Page 4: ...g import of Canopus HQ AVI files into Windows based video applications Software Development Kit SDK available for free download at the Web site http www canopus com products Pegasus index php for soft...

Page 5: ...ality perfect for archiving or delivering out via SD and HD mediums 100 words Grass Valley Pegasus from Thomson is a high quality video capture system comprised of PCI Express hardware and software Ca...

Page 6: ...udio 1 x 4 pin connector for internal PC connection AUX Supported Input Resolutions1 HDMI2 1920x1080 59 94 60i 1920x1080 50i 1280x720 59 94 60p 1280x720 50p 720x480 59 94 60p 720x576 50p 720x480 59 94...

Page 7: ...ing input Up conversion Down conversion is not supported 2 HDCP formatted video and audio cannot be previewed nor captured 3 Can be connected to the HDMI port with a generic HDMI DVI conversion cable...

Page 8: ...hysical hard disk drive is recommended Internet Connection Ideal for user registration technical support and software updates CD ROM Required for installation Graphics System Graphics card with suppor...

Page 9: ...PCI Express x1 bus card 1 Pegasus Installation CD ROM 1 Installation guide 1 15 pin D sub RGB to 9 pin miniDIN converter cable 1 YPbPr component to 7 pin miniDIN converter cable 1 RCA composite to S...

Page 10: ...rts a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 and by compressing the full HD resolution without using a pre filter to down sample the signal the codec is able to preserve the frequency characteristics of th...

Page 11: ...with the 3 5mm stereo input A7 Yes when using HD Component S Video composite and HDMI inputs but not when using DVI and Analog RGB inputs Q8 Does the HQ codec work under a Macintosh Operating System...

Page 12: ...pture upon detecting an input signal matching your configured settings Manual Capture Captures can be started and ended manually or started manually and ended automatically by specifying the duration...

Page 13: ...ese tradeoffs Pegasus not only captures in the same resolutions employed by most high definition sources but the resulting data is much smaller in file size and capable of being manipulated and edited...

Page 14: ...of worship CG record a realtime rendering of a 3D project that can be viewed on the PC Publishing games magazines both online and print can make high resolution captures of all the latest gaming cons...

Page 15: ...s Vista with a NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 graphics board using the latest ForceWare Drivers 3 1 Installing HQ Recorder Software After installing the Pegasus hardware into a free PCI Express slot and booting...

Page 16: ...Pegasus Reviewer s Guide October 2007 Page 16 Start the Setup by choosing Run Setup exe option The Setup process will start When prompted choose Next Choose the top option for the License Agreement a...

Page 17: ...f you would like to change the location choose Change and select a different folder and or drive to install HQ Recorder to When ready choose Next to continue Click Install At some point during this st...

Page 18: ...order application As you ll see the interface for HQ Recorder is very simplistic making it very easy to quick configure and capture video The top button provides you with a complete menu of all possib...

Page 19: ...800x600 1024x768 and 1280x1024 Framerate Pegasus captures at 60 frames per second with the exception of the 1280x1024 resolution which is captured at 30 frames per second The data rate for 60fps at su...

Page 20: ...switch to Clone Mode From the left hand list of options choose Set up multiple displays For the first option select The same on both displays Clone From the second option choose the option that places...

Page 21: ...sus In this case 1280 by 1024 It s also a good idea to make sure that the Refresh rate is set to 60 Hertz Click Apply to save the settings If you are using an LCD flat panel display such as this examp...

Page 22: ...g in terms of GUI sizes and positioning One final step remains To get the best graphics performance out of your video card it s a good idea to switch all of the 3D optimization to run off just the sin...

Page 23: ...mode This will push all GPU acceleration toward the primary display only which has been set to be the output connected to the Pegasus board Close the NVIDIA Control Panel The graphics card is now conf...

Page 24: ...at least need to provide a Filename and also check the Folder path is correct Remember it s highly recommended that when capturing video output from the same PC that the Pegasus is installed in that...

Page 25: ...uring simply click the Record button At this point you can minimize or even close the HQ Recorder window the capture will continue in the background You can view the recording status by simply checkin...

Page 26: ...do within Windows will be recorded in pristine Canopus HQ AVI quality Applications can include different forms of multimedia content such as flash or full motion video and sound and Pegasus will capt...

Page 27: ...Play button will allow you to quickly browse and load your saved clip into the default media player for AVI files but remember that the high use of system RAM video RAM and hard disk may cause the pla...

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