TARGA 3000 Configuration Cookbook
11/25/2002
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2 Certified Workstations and Motherboards
2.1 What Does Certified Mean?
A computer workstation or peripheral that has been certified by Pinnacle Systems means that the certified
equipment meets or exceeds our requirements for a particular product, and that the same model(s) from this
manufacturer will perform at a predictable level of compliance. Certified status also means that the
workstation or equipment vendor will continue to work with Pinnacle Systems to resolve issues that may
arise from the recommendations of this or other Pinnacle support documents. Please note that we cannot
guarantee performance or compatibility with systems that are configured outside of our recommendations.
2.2 System Requirements
All TARGA 3000 workstations need the following components. This is a minimum requirements list for
reference purposes only, the actual end-product should be customized to the format you will be working with
(i.e. uncompressed YUV, MPEG2, or DV). Consult the following section "Choosing the Right Ingredients" for
more specific requirements:
- PC Workstation based on i440BX,i815, i840 or Serverworks chipsets
- 256 MB / 512MB RAM (SDRAM or RIMM)
- Ultra3 (160m) SCSI Controller for AV drives or array
- AV Capable Drives or Arrays. 2 striped drives are required for MPEG2/DV, 4 for dual stream
uncompressed, 8 for 3 stream
- Certified Graphics Adapter
- 9 GB or Larger System Disk (EIDE or SCSI)
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (NT Server not recommended) with Service Pack 5, Windows 2000
Service Pack 2, WindowsXP Professional
-Direct X 8.0a (You can obtain this version of DirectX at
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp
- Supported Editing Application (i.e. Adobe Premiere, in-sync Speed Razor, discreet edit 6.5)
2.3 Choosing the Right Ingredients
The TARGA 3000 Family of software and hardware is scaleable, meaning that better performance will be
realized with faster systems. System requirements will vary, depending on the format being used. For
example, if DV25 is used for acquisition and editing, the requirements are not as high as YUV. The following
codec choices will help define the "strength" of the system needed:
DV25. This is an "industrial" quality (4:1:1 / 4:2:0) codec. It is conservative on disk usage (12 GB/hour), data
rates up to 3.6 MBps per stream and has less chroma bandwidth than the other codecs. If planning on
effects work, consider one of the higher-quality codecs.
MPEG2. This is the closest equivalent to the MJPEG format that users are accustomed to in other high-
performance editing systems. Disk usage at the highest quality setting is 24 GB/hour. The data rate can be
set between 10 Mbits/sec (1.2 MBps., offline quality) and 50 Mbits/sec (6.25 MBps., online quality) per
stream. The MPEG2 codec in TARGA 3000 is I-frame only, and can be edited with frame accuracy. If image
quality and disk usage are important, MPEG2 is recommended.
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