CompuServe Messages

Bill, It's not exactly standard. Fasten your seatbelt. My Amiga has a SuperGen 2000S, and when I got it I retired my old Supergen external unit to a closet. When I got the Firecracker I found that the overlay section won't work with an internal genlock, though the board will otherwise function. What to do. Then I found that the Firecracker runs completely independently of the Amiga as far as timing is concerned; it's possible to genlock the Amiga to one thing, and the Firecracker to something else. So — the Amiga is genlocked to our house sync via the SuperGen 2000S. The Firecracker is hooked up to the old SuperGen which is also genlocked to house sync. Only problem there is that you can't adjust the timing on the old external SuperGen, so I run house sync out to another sync generator that has timing controls, and run the blackburst out of that second sync generator to the SuperGen. That way I can time the Firecracker in to the system. So far, that means the Amiga can appear to my switcher as two separate sources — the Firecracker and the Amiga graphics. So I can make a background on the Firecracker, say, and put graphics over it from something like Broadcast Titler II. But that's all composite. The RGB loop output from the SuperGen runs to a Panasonic UTP-2 transcoder, so if I'm running straight to tape — like for single-framing animations — I can transcode to YRB. Whew! That's how it works. Pete