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#Studio16 3.0 track drift

    07-Jun-94 21:55:36
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. Glenn Masterpieces in Video