Technical Specifications

CinéWave System Components
Knoll Light Factory
Cine Engine
Analog Option
Pro Digital
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is Apple's, award-winning video editing, compositing, and special effects software. Final Cut Pro and QuickTime work together to take advantage of Apple's Power Mac G4s, delivering dramatic gains in video editing productivity. With the ability to work in the entire range of professional editing formats — from DV to SD and HD — within the same affordable application, your projects can easily be integrated with industry-standard post-production systems.

Commotion Pro
Commotion Pro is Pinnacle Systems’ comprehensive desktop application for paint, rotoscoping, compositing, motion tracking, and effects. Designed by award-winning special effects artists and leading filmmakers, it is well suited for digital film, web streaming, broadcast design, DVD, and motion graphics projects. Commotion Pro now provides Final Cut Pro users with the ability to export a sequence including edit points from Final Cut Pro to Commotion Pro in just one step.

Knoll Light Factory
Get the most widely used lighting effects tool. Now you can create an unlimited number of lighting effects and lens flares as seen in major TV broadcasts and feature films with an unprecedented level of precision and control.

TARGA Ciné Engine (click on image for close up view)
  • 64-bit PCI board with 2 Digital Tether port connections for plug-and-play configuration of breakout boxes
  • HUB-3 video processing engine for 8/16 bit YUV or 8-bit RGBA native processing in real-time
  • 128 MB of on-board SDRAM


CinéWave Breakout Boxes

Pro Analog

  • Video: Analog composite, component, S-Video, reference in (BNC)
  • Audio: Analog unbalanced -10 dB (RCA); balanced +4 dB (XLR) Pro Digital (SDI)

Pro Digital (SDI)

  • Serial digital interface (SMPTE 259M) resolution at 10-bits with embedded audio @ 20-bit/48 KHz

Pro Digital & Analog

  • Video: Composite, component, S-Video, analog 10-bit, serial digital (SMPTE 259M) resolution at 10-bits
  • Audio: 4 in/6 out analog balanced audio, 4 in/4 out AES/EBU digital audio @ 20-bit/48 KHz, 2 in/2 out S/PDIF digital audio, 2 in/2 out unbalanced audio, 8 in/8 out TDIF digital audio, SDI embedded audio @ 20-bit/48 KHz

Pro HD Digital (HD-SDI)

  • HD serial digital interface (SMPTE 292M) with embedded audio @ 20-bit/48 KHz
  • Supports 1080i/30, 1080i/29.97, 1080i/25, 1080p/24, and even true 1080p/23.98 fps
  • There is also limited support for 720p