Problem Genlocking velocity to Betacam Sp deck UVW 1800
by Floriano Cabral
on
May 30, 2008 at 11:09:02 pm
Hi
Does anyone have any idea on how to genlock velocity to uvw 1800?
i am sending video to the deck using the component inputs it looks out of sync when it records but when i play back its fine, now i am sending the NTSC video to Europe they convert it to pal, and they tell me that the video on the NTSC player goes in and out of sync...any ideas on what to do?
ps; here it plays back fine on the deck that it was recorded...
thanks for the help
Re: Problem Genlocking velocity to Betacam Sp deck UVW 1800 by Chris Blair on May 31, 2008 at 2:25:04 am
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
