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- From: duvall@eagle.sangamon.edu (Mike Duvall)
- Subject: Re: TBC use
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:50:52 GMT
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- I have run a production company full time for seven years and part time
- for the last seven years. I have seen a lot of changes and have some
- good hints for you. FIRST be careful using the term broadcast quality.
- It is generally accept that SVHS cannot be used to edit for commercials.
- I have seem some people shoot commercials on SVHS and then edit to
- another format. Some engineers do not consider 3/4" broadcast quality.
- The FCC has rules but as long as the picture quality is very good you
- usually don't have problems. Lighting is very important!!! Toasters are
- also not broadcast quality or some might say full-broadcast quality but
- many people still use them. You will not have trouble if the picture
- quality looks good and the station will accept a SVHS tape. REMEMBER
- BROADCAST QUALITY CANNOT BE MADE FROM CHEAP GEAR. You cannot take a home
- camcorder and turn the low resolution, noisy picture into broadcast
- quality. It still looks like home video. VCRs range from $300 to
- $100,000 mainly because of picture quality. If you are using SVHS or any
- cheap format you are at the bottom of the quality barrell but not out in
- the cold.
- GENLOCK and TBC...genlock is generated lock and is really very simple.
- In the old days of TV, even as far back as 1980s you had a sync
- generator and it sent signals such as H, V, SC, and Sync to each piece
- of gear ie cmaeras, switchers, TBC and so on. Then sync generators
- became cheaper to build and so cameras and other gear came with sync
- generators. Every piece of stand alone gear has a sync gen in it. What
- gen lock does is locks the internal sync gen to an incoming video
- signal. the incoming signal can be any composite video signal (a signal
- with sync on it) such as color bars, black, even program. usually your
- sync gen or switcher has black burst which is a composite video signal
- without any picture except black, and
- BB is sent to all the gear ( to the genlock input)
- The piec of gear must have horizontal phase and subcarrier phase
- adusted. (another article needed. )
- TBCs...A recorded video signal has nearly undetectable problems with
- timing. A video signal has 525 lines each line recorded on tape. If you
- grabbed hold of a tape and stretched it the lines would be farther apart
- and then would not come up at the right time. The lines would always be
- behind the head when the head looks for it (highly exaggerated) A tbc
- will store several lines in memory and in it detects a missing line (not
- a frame, 525lines 30 times a second) it will repeat the line before it
- because it has it in memory. Ten years ago I had a TBC that was +/- 4
- lines or 2 lines of memory. I had a tape that got out by three lines
- after it played for 50 minutes. The result was the picture jumped up and
- down by one line. The client didn't even notice. With improved storage
- techniques some TBC gained an entire frame of memory. A device that
- holds a frame in memory is a FRAME SYNC. A frame sync is often confused
- with a TBC. They are not the same. A frame sync will delay an entire
- frame until it matches a reference signal. This device is used to sync
- incoming microwaves from network feeds or remote vans. TBC/Framesync
- both correct time base errors and frame sync.
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- So gen lock has nothing to do with broadcast output. You cannot clean up
- a crummy video signal. It is only as good as what you first record. TBCs
- help keep a video signal stable and don't help the look of the picture.
- If it is not broadcastable you can't make it. Garbage in and garbage out
- no matter the TBC.
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- LAST.. no offense but I would suggest that you find someplace to learn
- these things before you take any money for a commercial. you will be
- competing with people who are experience and there are a lot of peopl
- who will stick it to you. Research you market, who is your competition.
- What can you offer potential clients. Some client will go to you because
- you contacted them others will ask tough questions like Lets see a
- program like your trying to sell me or what commericials have you done
- that Ive seen? You can make good money if you are good and know your stuff!
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- || T V V || Sangamon State University
- || T V || Springfield, Illinois 62704
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