66 Chapter 4: Basic TARGA 3000 Tutorial With Adobe
— LOWER FIELD FIRST should be selected for the Field Settings, and OPTIMIZE STILLS should
be checked (enabled). None of the other options are needed for this tutorial
For interlaced display, odd and even numbered scan lines are separated into two
groups, called fields. LOWER FIELD FIRST is for NTSC or PAL. What this means is
when a frame is displayed, one field is scanned first. Then the system goes back to
the top of the screen and scans the other field.
— From the pull-down within the New Project Settings dialog window select CAPTURE
SETTINGS.
— Select the options as follows:
• Capture Format: TARGA 3000 Capture
• Capture Video: Should be checked (click on box with mouse)
• Size: 720 X 486
• Rate: 29.97
• Capture Audio: Should be checked only if your source is using audio
REPORT DROPPED FRAMES is a popular option, and a good way to zoom in on a realistic
throughput. Keep it selected. When selected, a dialog window will appear after video
capture displaying the number of frames dropped (if any) during the capture process.
Next you need to set how the TARGA 3000 compresses and controls images. This is done
by way of the TARGA Settings dialog window.