Re: Problem Genlocking velocity to Betacam Sp deck UVW 1800

You need to supply both Velocity and the UVW deck a blackburst signal.

If you don't have a blackburst generator, I believe you can hook a bnc cable from the composite out of the Velocity and go into the genlock or reference input on the UVW (I can't remember how it's labeled on the Sony deck). You also need to set Velocity's genlock setting in the hardware manager to "internal," so it will generate it's own sync. Then when you output to the UVW, the composite signal coming out of Velocity should provide the sync signal to the reference input on the UVW, and your video will still feed from the coponent out of Velocity to the component in on the UVW.

I'm not 100% sure this will work...but I believe the earliest versions of Velocity (like 1999) didn't even have genlock signals, you would just sync to the composite signal like I'm describing here.

Hope that helps. If that doesn't work, another way to do it is to use another playback deck and send the composite signal of it to the UVW's reference in, and then loop that to the Velocity's reference input. In that case you'd have to set Velocity's genlock setting in the hardware manager to "external" since it would be fed an external sync source.



Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
www.videomi.com