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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. HQ Recorder supports three modes of capture:
- Auto Capture – HQ Recorder will automatically start capture upon detecting an input signal matching your configured settings
- Manual Capture – captures can be started and ended manually, or started manually and ended automatically by specifying the duration or end time
- Scheduled Capture – HQ Recorder captures according to specified date/time
The HQ Recorder application resides within the Windows notification tray, providing you with an unobtrusive means of starting and ending video capture. This is ideal for situations where you need to capture graphics output from the same PC that the Pegasus hardware is installed in.
In almost all situations up till now, there were only three solutions available for capturing high-quality, high-resolution video on a PC:
- Capture via a video editing hardware board, as uncompressed data. This method requires vast amounts of storage, within high-performance RAID arrays. Satisfying these hardware demands requires an expensive investment for such a simple task.
- Capture via a video converter and scaler to a FireWire port. This method reduces the source material's visual quality to standard definition DV.
- Capture with software-only solutions, either as uncompressed data, which can result in sacrificing frame rates to maintain capture on lower end systems, or you can capture to a compressed format. The problem with this solution is that in some cases, you may not get video overlay or be forced to reduce the performance of your graphics card output to be able to capture. In any event, PC resources must be shared between the capture software and the PC software you want to record output from. This method also does not solve the problem of obtaining footage from external devices.
With Pegasus, you eliminate these tradeoffs. Pegasus not only captures in the same resolutions employed by most high definition sources, but the resulting data is much smaller in file size and capable of being manipulated and edited on any current PC. The Canopus-engineered HQ codec has been designed to preserve the best possible picture quality without sacrificing editing performance.
Canopus HQ supports a maximum resolution of 1920x1080, and by compressing the full HD resolution without using a pre-filter to down-sample the signal, the codec is able to preserve the frequency characteristics of the original signal almost perfectly. In other words, compressing HD data in this way can yield a saving of 20:1 without any significant loss in quality. That's a big saving considering that just one second of uncompressed HD at 1920x1080 is around 140MB!
In addition, when capturing PC graphics output, Pegasus records everything it sees, including full motion video overlay and 3D renderings from animation software or games – no need to reduce your PC's video acceleration settings.
The Canopus HQ codec is extremely flexible and configurable, providing not just easy-to-use pre-configured profiles (Online Fine, Online Standard), but also customizable settings in terms of picture quality and bit-rate.
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
- Universities and corporate training establishments
- Games publishers, creators, and advertising agencies looking for an easy and cost-effective means of capturing and showing content
- Corporate presentations, live events and houses of worship
- CG - record a realtime rendering of a 3D project that can be viewed on the PC
- Publishing - games magazines (both online and print) can make high resolution captures of all the latest gaming console and PC titles
- Corporate presentations involving PC slides – print to video, with external audio annotation for later distribution
Since Pegasus includes the Canopus Codec Pack, you'll be able to bring in your captured Canopus HQ footage into any Windows®-based video application for editing, transcoding, or authoring to DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
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