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  • TARGA system

    Posted by Danny Brothers on July 21, 2005 at 4:21 pm

    Hi-
    We’re finishing up a series of shows that are going to DVD. There are 8 half-hour programs that will be distributed over 4 DVDs. I’m looking for a better compression than Compressor or DSP 3 can offer and found a company in town that uses a Targa Hardware/Software system for compression. They claim that it makes nice pictures but I’ve never heard of the system so I was just looking for some feedback on its quality. Has anyone worked with this system? Does it work well?
    Thanks,
    -Danny

    Charles Simonson replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Charles Simonson

    July 21, 2005 at 5:27 pm

    Never used it myself, but here is the pdf for the product I imagine they are talking about:

    https://www.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/TMW_ReadMe.pdf

    Whether or not you want to explore this route, there are some software-based encoders out there, that, when paired with a fast machine and fast storage system, offer very near real-time encoding these days, at the same high quality that you can expect from a hardware-based solution. Of course, this only refers to SD encoding right now.

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