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Pinnacle Systems TARGA 3000
Introduction
About The Pinnacle Systems
TARGA
®
3000
Important: Be sure to register your TARGA 3000 Series product. Doing so will entitle you to software
updates, answers to frequently asked questions, and put you on the TARGA E-Mail distribution to receive
important bulletins. Either fill out the registration card enclosed in the box (see Chapter 1), or register online
at: http://www.pinnaclesys.com/register
The TARGA 3000 is Pinnacle Systems’ most powerful desktop editing and compositing
solution. TARGA 3000 provides broadcast quality video, including true uncompressed
video as well as MPEG-2 and DV video processing. TARGA 3000 also supports the
“RGB A” format for effects processing, and is compatible with the video and key features
provided by animation and compositing applications. The TARGA 3000 video processor
has a memory centric architecture that enables complex multilayer editing and
compositing in real-time with sub-pixel DVEs, RGB chroma keying, and advanced color
correction operating simultaneously on multiple layers of video. TARGA 3000 offers a
complete range of analog and digital I/O, most of which are provided by the TARGA 3000
series of professional Pro Analog and Pro Digital Breakout Boxes
Other features of a TARGA 3000 system are:
Note: MPEG-2 capture and editing is not available in the 1.0 software release of TARGA 3000. MPEG-2
export is available. MPEG-2 capture and editing is an integral part of TARGA 3000 system, and will be
provided free of charge in an upcoming software release.
• Real-time playback of 3 streams of D1 uncompressed video in real time and 2 streams of
compressed video in real time with on-board capability to move up to 4 streams.
• Support for multiple compression formats (MPEG-2 and DV25).
• Support for true uncompressed video capture, edit, and playback in Composite; S-Video (Y/C);
Y,B-Y,R-Y; and Serial Digital (SDI) formats.
• Support for uncompressed alpha playback allowing for full compositing of animations drawn
from complimentary applications such as CommotionDV.