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- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: TBC use
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:39:54 GMT
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- In article <1hs96kINN227@crcnis1.unl.edu> bberg@unlinfo.unl.edu (bruce berg) writes:
-
- >Funds are very limited so I'm forced to
- >be very carefull in what I get.
-
-
- Get a loan. Although there is probably no hurry on the A4000 since not
- much 3rd party stuff is available yet.
-
-
- >1. Will a GVP G-Lock give me a broadcast quality output?
- >2. Will a DPS TBC I, II, or III also give me a Broadcast output?
-
-
- I think broadcast quality has a couple of different meanings (someone
- please correct me if I am wrong). One is that FCC regulations require
- that signals broadcasted on public airwaves be of a certain quality as
- far as the sync pulses go and what not. You can make crummy old video
- from an old VHS recording a broadcast quality signal no matter how fuzzy
- the picture might be. But sometimes people talk of broadcast quality
- as far as the picture is concerned in the same context as professional
- quality. It means that the picture is sharp and clear.
-
- The only thing a TBC is for is to sync or steady signals off tape. Video
- runs in frames; so for any switching between two signals, the frames
- need to start and end at the same time. This is not easily done where
- your signals are coming off two separate electro-mechanical tape drive
- systems. The TBC stores a frame in a buffer then pushes it out when a
- commom sync pulse tells it to. It also corrects the unstable speeds
- inevitible in a tape drive. Live video doesn't need TBC since you can
- use a common sync pulse for all you sources. But tape is the way
- most of us will do editing.
-
- This is why JPEG compression has such good prospects. You don't need
- TBCs and the quality can match that of the best of tape systems.
-
- >3. If anyone uses the DPS TBC, can you tell me if it has an SVHS out?
- >4. Do you run the output from the genlock back into the TBC and then
- > out to the recording VCR?
-
- What the TBC is for is to steady and sync signals off tape. You never
- need it to record really; only to sync or steady the output off tape. If
- you run a tape *source* through a TBC, you don't need to run it through
- again to the destination tape. A TBC is to fix tape output. ...not input.
-
- I am not sure about genlocking. You can genlock without TBC but I think
- the unsteady speeds of a tape source will degrade the quality of any
- output to the destination deck. The Amiga dosn't really buffer the signal.
- It only overlays stuff on the video signal. I am not sure what you'd
- gain by a TBCed signal through a genlock. The genlock just makes sure
- that the Amiga frames and source frames start and end at the same time.
- The Aimga gets synced to the source. A TBCed source is going to be of
- higher quality where the tape speed problems are corrected. I don't know.
- Someone else please comment. It probably depends a lot on the quality
- or your source deck.
-
- Uh... to do any switching off tape, you'd need a TBC. And start-stop
- type swiching I believe will make for non-broadcast quality video. There
- the sync pulse just stops and then starts up again. To be of broadcast
- quality, I think, the sync pulse has to be constant throughout the clip.
- Again, the JPEG compression boards can do switching without TBC, but
- you are limmited by the amount of video you can get on your hard drive.
- But I guess you could take all your short clips and peice them together
- on an inexpensive editing deck. ...not sure. Comments???
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- NCW
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