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- On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Marc Dole <madvideo@bluefin.net> wrote:
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- >Last year I worked on a PBS series called Presence of Place. Global locator
- >animations, DEM stuff etc. The animations for the pilot were sent off to an
- >abekas, because the I didn't have a PAR or PVR in my Alpha(March 95). PBS
- >approved the show and we went on to do 26 episodes with more that 100
- >animations total. The series was recently completed and sent to PBS. PBS
- >sent a note back to the Producers of the show stating that the animations
- >displayed 3 extra lines of vertical blanking. I know that the Toaster
- >displays 2 extra lines (or something like that) and that is why it has a bad
- >reputation in the Network arena. The producers of the show were able to get
- >PBS to accept the flaw, but I ask you, What gives.
-
- First of all, let me say that I'm VERY surprized that PBS accepted the "flaw".
- In my experience..... no way! Somebody knew what to kiss..... and when.
-
- I would have assumed there would not be any problems using Abekas video.
- What gives there?
-
- The 2 extra lines in toaster/flyer output were a problem at first. Actually
- the 2 extra lines were at the bottom of the frame AND they were black (7.5 IRE).
- PBS wanted "active" video there. Our fix was/is to run the toaster/flyer
- output into our grassvally switcher. Set up a horzontal wipe (one that
- wipes verticlly) so that it sits just above the two blacklines. The lower
- half of the wipe is the output of the toaster/flyer run thru a DVE which
- is lowered by two lines. So, the last 2 lines are a repeat of the prev 2 lines.
- This was all saved in an "E-mem" on the switcher so it can be called up easily.
-
- If PBS had said that the last two lines of video can't be the same as
- the prev 2, I'd have screamed and called them anal retentive.... for sure.
-
- >Has anyone else had these problems with the anal retentive technicians of
- >the elite broadcast world.
-
- Yes, and there ain't much you can do about it. They act and talk like
- their reasons (for liking or disliking certain equipment)are purely objective.
- When in fact, the cost of a piece of gear has a direct influence on the
- perceived quality of that gear. I know "engineers" that hate Mackie mixers
- and take every chance to "poo poo" them. I guess they're to inexpensive.
- Best dollar to quality ratio in my opinion but, what do I know?
- All I have are ears.
-
- >
- >I know that the PVR has SIX extra lines of blanking. Scott Wheeler from
- >Area 52 said that the editors on Space A&B wont use the PVR output.
-
- PVR has SIX extra lines of blanking! I can't believe it. What is DPS
- thinking? I guess after all this time, and all the gripping about the
- toaster output, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da. I assumed the PVR output was near
- perfect. I don't have a component switcher to do the "fix". I might as well
- stay with what I have.
-
- Later,
- Ed
- Jakobere@uwstout.edu
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