New Video Setup

• SITN cable TV is hooked up. To view, change the channel on the play 1/2" deck from "AUX" to one of the other channels (like 51) and select the play 1/2" deck from the main editor switch.
• The Hi8 video deck is hooked up, accessible through editor switch channel 4.

  Audio noise problems are fixed!

  The audio mixer was causing the problem, it's reconfigured. (Earlier we said it was broken, but now it's back in the loop.) You can just use the main editor switch to choose both audio and video sources, there's no need to rewire cables by hand to get better audio quality for dubs. The speakers sound much better too.

• Note that the Editor switch controls most things. The TBC/Scope switch (which used to be misnamed the Monitor switch) has tempting bright lights, but only has an impact if you
  • need to correct the timebase of the decks when feeding them into the Abekas.
  • are a gearhead and really want to use the wave/vector scope (now hooked up...)

• NTSC decoder gets its input from the output of the editor switch. The NTSC decoder switch is superfluous and disconnected.

• New inputs:
  • black for blanking tapes.
  • colorbars for an oh-so-professional video beginning
    for 1 KHz tone to accompany your lovely colorbars see the audio page
  Select Black/Colorbars (channel 4) on the main editor switch, and then select the appropriate channel on the Black/Colorbars Switch right below the 3/4" player deck.

• Laserdisc (will play audio CD's) accessible from the main editor switch (channel #1).

• Character generator (and its switch) are disconnected.

• RGB camera output now viewable directly on the play monitor. Press in the two leftmost buttons (Input: Line B, Sync: External) and go around to the back and set the Decode/RGB switch to RGB. Undo these changes when done (Decode/RGB: Decode, Input: Line A, Sync: Internal) please!

• See the Blacking/Timecoding page to get nicely blanked tapes with timecode starting at 00:00:00.

• The NTSC Encoder switch (channel #3) on the main editor switch used to be mislabelled Abekas. It's really the output of the RGB playback switch, which goes to the NSTC encoder. It's either the Abekas, the Lyon Lamb scan converter, or the camera.

• Note that the output of the RGB record switch goes to the Abekas digitizer.

• To use the editor switch to get video from one source and audio from another: use the switch normally to pick your video source. Then while pressing the green button on the right and pick another source with the main part of the switch. The audio will now come from that source (which should have just its green light lit). Hitting a switch on the main section without using the red/green (video/audio) modifier buttons will cause both video and audio to come from the same source again.

Last modified: Thu Jan 25 22:32:22 1996