#Studio16 3.0 track drift
07-Jun-94 21:55:36
Sb: #41753-#Studio16 3.0 track drift
Fm: Glenn Scott 70523,1041
To: John Chang 73023,2000
I reduced the buffering to 256, but not as far down as 64. I have had a number
of phone and fax exchanges with Sunrize since the last message, and we got
their programmers onto the problem. As my last test, I made a TC window dub
tape and used that to create a new CueList. At 27 minutes into the CueList, it
was triggering the sound 2 seconds early.
They think that the TC on my tape is drifting which is causing a cumulative
error. The TC would be alright when I was laying in my cue points in the list,
but on playback, (and I certainly had to use the Ignore SMPTE errors function),
this slippage was causing the sound to come in early. The program I have been
using to stripe my tapes may be at fault.
As a result I have ordered their SMPTE output module which uses the Toaster to
genlock the signal to the video (or so I understand). At one point they
offered to send me a beta version of a 3.1 upgrade they are working with which
includes, among other things, a TC type auto-sensing feature. I can certainly
try lowering the buffer and see if it works with my system. Thanks for the
suggestion. I will also post the results when I get their TC output program
and see if that solves it.
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