Canopus Corporation
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| Canopus | |
| Type | |
|---|---|
| Founded | April 1983 |
| Headquarters | Kobe, Japan |
| Products | EDIUS Series Video Systems ADVC Series Video Converters |
| Slogan | Video Technology That Creates |
| Website | www.canopus.com |
Canopus Corporation is a manufacturer of video editing cards and video editing software. Their competitors include Matrox and Pinnacle Systems.
When 3dfx's Voodoo series of PC-gaming-oriented 3D graphics cards became popular in the mid-1990s, Canopus was well-known for producing the Pure3D, a Voodoo-based graphics card with 6MB of memory instead of the standard 4MB.
When the Voodoo 2 was released, the Canopus Pure3D II was praised for the fact that their cards were shorter than competetors' Voodoo 2 cards. Canopus also had a reputation for driver optimization, giving them a performance advantage over the other cards. They were the cards of choice for Maximum PC's 1998 Dream Machine.
When Canopus' version of the nVidia TNT came out, they offered a unique internal cable to connect the TNT card to the Voodoo2 based Pure3D II, as opposed to the standard connection with an external cable.
The Canopus DVStorm2 was a realtime video editing card, discontinued by Canopus in early 2005.
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