Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007
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1. Grass Valley Pegasus Reviewer’s Guide
1.1 Overview
Grass Valley Pegasus from Thomson is a high-quality video capture system comprised of PCI Express hardware
and software. Capable of accepting input from a variety of standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD)
sources, including PC graphics, and featuring a Canopus HQ hardware codec chip, Pegasus lets you preview,
capture and store footage in pristine quality – perfect for archiving or delivering out via SD and HD mediums.
At last, there is an affordable, easy-to-use solution for capturing video for use in demonstration and training videos.
Pegasus’ inputs include S-Video, YUV and RGB analog and HDMI, making it ready for today’s range of video game
consoles. With the included converter cable, you can also capture VGA output – ideal for creating tutorials of your
software. But it doesn’t end there, as Pegasus can also capture external two-channel analog audio, and up to eight
channels of embedded audio via HDMI.
And since Pegasus is a hardware-based image capture solution, there’s no need to worry about system
specifications allowing for realtime, full frame rate, high resolution video capture.
Onboard Canopus HQ Codec Chip – Capture with the Best
Already a prominent part of Grass Valley’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 assured that the HD video content you output from your HD sources will be perfectly
preserved, ready for you to either edit, author to DVD, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or store for later usage. Because the
input quality is so clean, subsequent conversions to other distribution formats – such as mobile phones or the Web
– are cleaner too.
Pegasus includes the Canopus Codec Pack for you to incorporate your captured HQ AVI files into any Windows®-
based video application.
1.2 Three Key Benefits
1. High resolution video capture with the Canopus HQ video codec...
Capturing High Definition (HD) video is very data-intensive, requiring expensive RAID storage. Pegasus
uses smart, high quality compression to give you huge storage savings without sacrificing picture quality.
2. Pristine video quality, ready for action...
Because the input quality is so clean, subsequent conversions to other distribution formats – for example
to mobile phones or the web – are cleaner too. And more efficient!
3. RGB input support for PC graphics...
Because Pegasus can capture the PC screen display in HD quality too, it is the perfect tool for creating
training videos and instructional DVDs. There are also no limitations on graphic card performance or video
overlay display, and the capture process does not affect the PC’s overall processing power.
