The 3000 does uncompressed. I actually have a breakout box for one but have been waiting to find a cheap board. I'm not sure they'll work in a Mac. The CineWave was Pinnacle's Mac product at the time though I had someone tell me he used a Targa 3000 in a G5. And I've had no luck finding any software downloads for the 3000 online. Though I have found some documentation including something on a program (sounds as if it were free from Pinnacle) called MPEGWorks that did real-time transcoding to MPEG2 using the Targa hardware. And after keeping an eye on ebay for awhile I actually spotted one of the 3DVE effects daughtercards though it was on the SDI version of the card with a price way too high. That's another thing I keep finding docs on but no forums posts or other things from anyone that actually had one.
The 2000 drivers, etc were around a few years ago but difficult to find and seems to be gone now to. But I kept a copy of the Mac and PC CDs when I sold mine. Some of the Avid systems (both Nubus and PCI) used Targa cards and they show up cheap since people have no clue what they are. I'd love to know if they will work stand-alone. They're typically connected to a second card by a ribbon. The 2000 manual references an Abekas 3D effects card which seems to be the Avid card though I don't know if Avid called it that. Other than that I've never seen any reference to it besides old Pinnacle press releases. Maybe it ended up never being sold outside of Avid systems.
I've seen some posts elsewhere recommending the Aja Kona 2 which does SD and HD but is PCI-X and I believe limited to PowerPC. They show up on ebay relatively cheap (considering what a HD capture card normally costs) since editors have moved onto Intel Macs with PCIe. I should have grabbed one a few weeks ago that was buy-it-now complete with all cables, breakout box, etc for $300.
But, this is all getting a little bit away from my original post about a cheap old Mac.
The 2000 drivers, etc were around a few years ago but difficult to find and seems to be gone now to. But I kept a copy of the Mac and PC CDs when I sold mine. Some of the Avid systems (both Nubus and PCI) used Targa cards and they show up cheap since people have no clue what they are. I'd love to know if they will work stand-alone. They're typically connected to a second card by a ribbon. The 2000 manual references an Abekas 3D effects card which seems to be the Avid card though I don't know if Avid called it that. Other than that I've never seen any reference to it besides old Pinnacle press releases. Maybe it ended up never being sold outside of Avid systems.
I've seen some posts elsewhere recommending the Aja Kona 2 which does SD and HD but is PCI-X and I believe limited to PowerPC. They show up on ebay relatively cheap (considering what a HD capture card normally costs) since editors have moved onto Intel Macs with PCIe. I should have grabbed one a few weeks ago that was buy-it-now complete with all cables, breakout box, etc for $300.
But, this is all getting a little bit away from my original post about a cheap old Mac.