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- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: TBC use
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:58:53 GMT
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- In article <C03p4t.Dyw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> duvall@eagle.sangamon.edu (Mike Duvall) writes:
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- >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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- The TBC is used in A/B roll switching since you need to get your two
- source signals synced and it would be very hard to get two different
- tape drives running such that each was reading the same spot on each's
- frame at the same time. ...right? The TBC will delay one or the other
- signals such that the frames are synced. Is that right? Close? :)
-
- And what about start-stop editing? You don't want to do that do you?
- Or are there ways? ...you don't want a clip or tape where the sync
- pulse suddenly changes???
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- Thanks,
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- NCW
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