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Grass Valley Pegasus
Reviewer's Guide
October 2007
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© 2007 Thomson. All rights reserved.
Grass Valley is a trademark of Thomson.
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  • Page 1 ™ Grass Valley Pegasus Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 desktop.grassvalley.com professional.grassvalley.com © 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 notice.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 2 Table of Contents 1. Grass Valley Pegasus Reviewer’s Guide ...................... 1.1 Overview .................................3 1.2 Three Key Benefits ..............................3 1.3 Key Features ................................4 1.4 SKUs and Pricing ..............................4 1.5 Shipping ..................................4 1.6 Warranty ..................................4...

  • Page 3: Grass Valley Pegasus Reviewer's Guide

    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 –...

  • Page 4: Key Features

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page  1.3 Key Features • High-quality capture of HD and SD video using an onboard Canopus HQ hardware encoding chip • Capture up to 1920x1080/60i, 50i* and 1280x720/60p, 50p video • Capture PC display signals up to 1280x1024 without downscaling •...

  • Page 5: Descriptors (For Press, Web Sites Etc)

    RGB and HDMI sources, using the renowned Canopus HQ codec. 50 words: Grass Valley Pegasus from Thomson captures video input from a variety of standard definition and high definition sources, including PC graphics, using the renowned Canopus HQ codec. Pegasus lets you preview, capture and store footage in pristine quality –...

  • Page 6: Technical Specifications

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page  1.9 Technical Specifications Digital Video/ 1 x HDMI typeA (Ver1.1 HDCP not supported) Audio 1 x 7-pin miniDIN (Analog YPbPr component) Input Connectors Analog Video 1 x 4-pin miniDIN (S-Video, composite video)
  • Page 7 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 7 Video Capture File Format AVI (Canopus HQ, LPCM) 1920x1080 1440x1080 1280x1080 1280x1024 1280x720 960x720 Video Capture Resolutions 1024x768 800x600 720x576 720x486 720x480 640x480 Line In, Stereo at 24bit 48kHz Monitor Out...

  • Page 8: System Requirements

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page  1.10 System Requirements Intel® Pentium® 4 2.80GHz CPU or faster (AMD CPU also supported) Memory 1GB RAM (2GB RAM recommended) 40MB free disk space for the drivers and application software •...

  • Page 9: Package Contents

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page  1.11 Package Contents Pegasus PCI Express x1 bus card Pegasus Installation CD-ROM Installation guide 15-pin D-sub RGB to 9-pin miniDIN converter cable YPbPr component to 7-pin miniDIN converter cable RCA composite to S-Video connector...

  • Page 10: Frequently Asked Questions (Faqs)

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 10 1.12 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Why is EDIUS not bundled with Pegasus? Because Pegasus is not an editing product per se, and this would confuse customers. One of the main selling points of EDIUS hardware has been the ability to accurately monitor while editing.
  • Page 11 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 11 What is an SDK and what can it be used for? An SDK is a Software Development Kit and contains the programming routines and source code required to enable third-party developers to create their own capture tools. It is available online as a free download on the Web site (http://www.canopus.com/products/Pegasus/index.php), with a...

  • Page 12: Pegasus Features And Benefits

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 12 2. Pegasus Features and Benefits 2.1. HQ Recorder – Pegasus Capture Software HQ Recorder is a capture application designed specifically for Pegasus and is included in the Pegasus package. HQ Recorder provides a quick and easy method of configuring HQ capture quality settings, and HD and SD video preview of input sources, including a fullscreen mode.

  • Page 13: The Pegasus Advantage

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 1 2.2 The Pegasus Advantage In almost all situations up till now, there were only three solutions available for capturing high-quality, high- resolution video on a PC: 1. Capture via a video editing hardware board, as uncompressed data. This method requires vast amounts of storage, within high-performance RAID arrays.

  • Page 14: Pegasus Usage Examples And Workflow

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 1 2.3 Pegasus Usage Examples and Workflow Grass Valley Pegasus from Thomson is ideal for: • Anyone involved in creating or repurposing high-quality video content for distribution via the Web or mobile applications •...

  • Page 15: Pegasus Product Walkthrough And Tips

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 1 3. Pegasus Product Walkthrough and Tips This section covers basic installation and operation of the Pegasus package. As always, it’s a good idea to first read the manual included in the package, which covers hardware installation and I/O connections.
  • Page 16 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 1 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 and then Next.
  • Page 17 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 17 Normally you would want to leave the destination location set to the default setting, but if you would like to change the location, choose Change and select a different folder and/or drive to install HQ Recorder to.
  • Page 18 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 1 Once the installation is complete, choose Finish. The system will reboot. Once your system has finished restarting and you’re signed into Windows, you should now see a new tray icon for HQ Recorder.

  • Page 19: Capturing Video With Pegasus

    Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 1 3.2 Capturing Video with Pegasus While there are numerous input sources that Pegasus can be used to capture video from, this section will cover how to configure HQ Recorder to capture output of PC graphics from the same system.
  • Page 20 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 20 Once the NVIDIA Control Panel appears, the first thing to do is to enable the second graphic card output, and switch to ‘Clone Mode’. From the left-hand list of options, choose Set up multiple displays.
  • Page 21 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 21 Choose Change Resolution from the left-hand menu. The HDRECS ‘monitor’ will be selected as it is now the primary display. Adjust the Display resolution to match the input video size you plan to capture with Pegasus. In this case, 1280 by 1024.
  • Page 22 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 22 Select the LCD monitor connected to the PC and then choose Do not scale. Click Apply to save these settings. After a brief moment, you should have a corrected display, positioned in the center of the screen. This display reflects exactly what the Pegasus board will be capturing, in terms of GUI sizes and positioning.
  • Page 23 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 2 Choose Manage 3D settings, and then scroll down the list of different settings until you find Multi-display/mixed- GPU acceleration. From the associated drop-down menu, choose Single display performance 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.
  • Page 24 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 2 You should now see a mirror of what is on display, within the preview area of HQ recorder’s interface. Notice also, that the record status indicator to the lower left is green. This means that the signal being sent to the Pegasus hardware is ready and able to be captured.
  • Page 25 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 2 To begin capturing, 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 checking the color of the tray icon — red indicates that a...
  • Page 26 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 2 From here on, every thing you 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 capture it all.
  • Page 27 Grass Valley Pegasus - Reviewer’s Guide October 2007 Page 27 To finish recording, simply right-click the HQ Recorder tray icon and choose Stop recording, or you can open the full HQ Recorder interface and click the Stop button there. Clicking the 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 playback within the standard Windows Media Player to be slow and/or out of sync.

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