The Grass Valley™ Pegasus HD/SD Video Capture board for content archiving and distribution offers an affordable way to capture high-resolution, full frame rate video in real time. Comprised of PCI Express hardware and software—featuring a Canopus® HQ hardware codec chip—the Pegasus board lets you preview, capture, and store footage in pristine quality.

Supporting many SD and HD formats as well as PC graphics, the Pegasus harwdare's inputs include S-Video, YUV and RGB analog, and HDMI, making it ready for today's range of video game consoles. You can also capture VGA output with its converter cable—ideal for creating software tutorials. It can alos capture external two-channel analog audio and up to eight channels of embedded audio via HDMI (supports HDMI version 1.0. HDMI 1.1-1.3, HDCP not supported).

• High-quality capture of standard- and high-definition (SD and HD) 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
• Capture via HDMI^*, DVI^***, S-Video, YUV, and RGB component inputs
• HQ recorder to capture software via three modes:
  • Auto capture (when an input signal is detected)
  • Manual capture
  • Scheduled capture
• Includes Canopus codec pack for import of Canopus HQ AVI files in Windows-based video applications
• Software development kit (SDK) for software engineers to create custom solutions based on Pegasus technology

Digital Video Input

• 1 x HDMI type A (Ver1.1 HDCP not supported)

Analog Video Input

• 1 x 7-pin miniDIN (analog Y, Pb, Pr component)
• 1 x 4-pin miniDIN (S-Video, composite video)
• 1 x 9-pin miniDIN (analog RGB)

Analog Audio Input

• 1 x stereo mini jack

Analog Audio Output

• 1 x 4-pin connector for internal PC connection (AUX)

Supported Input Resolutions¹

• HDMI²
  • 1920x1080/59.94,60i
  • 1920x1080/50i
  • 1280x720/59.94,60p
  • 1280x720/50p
  • 720x480/59.94,60p
  • 720x576/50p
  • 720x480/59.94,60i
  • 720x576/50i
  • 640x480/59.94,60p
• DVI^2,3
  • 1280x1024/60p⁴
  • 1024x768/60p
  • 800x600/60p
  • 640x480/60p
• Analog RGB
  • 1280x1024/60p⁴
  • 1024x768/60p
  • 800x600/60p
  • 640x480/60p
• Analog Component5
  • 1920x1080/59.94i
  • 1920x1080/50i
  • 1280x720/59.94p
  • 1280x720/50p
  • 720x480/59.94p
  • 720x576/50p
  • 720x486/59.94i
  • 720x576/50i
• S-Video, Composite Video5
  • 720x486/59.94i
  • 720x576/50i
• Digital Video Input

 

Video Capture File Format  

• AVI (Canopus HQ, LPCM)

Video Capture Resolution

• 1920x1080
• 1440x1080 (1920 3/4)
• 1280x1080 (1920 2/3)
• 1280x1024
• 1280x720
• 960x720 (1280 3/4)
• 1024x768
• 800x600
• 720x576
• 720x486
• 720x480
• 640x480

Audio Capture

• Line In, Monitor Out⁶
• Stereo @ 24-bit, 48 kHz
• HDMI Input^2,7
• LPCM 2-8 ch. @ 24-bit 32-/44.1-/48 kHz

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4 2.80 GHz CPU or faster (AMD CPU also supported)
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM recommended)
• 40 MB free disk space for the drivers and application software
• ATA 3 GB/s, 7200 rpm or faster hard disk for video capture (if capturing graphics output from the same PC, a second physical hard disk drive is recommended)
• DirectX 9.0 or later
• Graphics card with support for PixelShader Model 2.0 (i.e. DX9-based) or hardware-based DirectDraw overlay, and 32-bit color display at a 1024x768 resolution
• One free PCI Express bus slot
• Internal 4-Pin audio input connector for audio preview
• Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later, 32-bit)
• Windows Vista (SP1 or later, 32-bit), including the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista Home Basic
  • Windows Vista Home Premium
  • Windows Vista Business
  • Windows Vista Ultimate

 

1 – Pegasus captures in the same resolution that is being input. Upconversion/downconversion is not supported.
2 – HDCP formatted video and audio cannot be previewed nor captured.
3 – Can be connected to the HDMI port with a generic HDMI-DVI conversion cable, available separately
4 – Captured as 30p.
5 – Video that contains copy control, such as copy-once, copy-never, or Macrovision cannot be captured.
6 – Audio will be in unlocked audio format when input via analog RGB or DVI.
7 – If a mute HDMI signal is input, an AVI file with no audio element will be generated. Audio that contains copy control, such as copy once, copy never, or Macrovision cannot be captured.

*HDMI support for 1.0 (HDMI 1.1-1.3, HDCP not supported)
**1080p capture not supported
***DVI capture requires HDMI-DVI converter, sold separately

Note: Video that contains copy control, such as copy-once, copy-never, or Macrovision cannot be captured.