What Is Targa???

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Targa was actually a company that in its early days made frame buffer cards for use in professional video applications. Around 1990 or so, the government cable office I worked for (Brunswick, Ohio) got two of these cards to compose graphics for the video production we did, and also for the cable channel's bulletin board. It made really nice pictures with the right software.

This would be the appropriate time to mention that they also had a graphic file format that used the extension .tga... what we're talking about now.

Later on, they began to make video boards for use in non-linear editing applications, primarily used by Avid, one of the early (and still dominant) companies in the world of non-linear video editing.

Targa was purchased by Pinnacle, which is a serious piece of crap company that doesn't adequately support anything they sell. I think Avid went on to make their own hardware.

In any case, the file format came from the company that made these video boards. More than you need to know, right?

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"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"