#Studio16 3.0 track drift
13-Jun-94 23:29:12
Sb: #41911-#Studio16 3.0 track drift
Fm: Glenn Scott 70523,1041
To: Terry L. Tabor 71170,1170
Terry,
Many thanks for taking the time to offer your experience. All of the
things you have mentioned, I have been aware of, and have experimented with.
One thing I did notice was, although I had set Preferences to external TC, when
I checked on Preferences while the CueList was playing through and slipping, it
had changed back to Internal. The folks at Sunrize decided that there was two
different TC sources at work, and so far I agree. I always keep Lock ON, but
have experimented with it off too, to no success. I have checked my DMA Mask
settings; reformatted the partition to get rid of BigBlocks (no improvement in
slippage); prepared a new master tape with new LTC (no improvement), etc. etc.
At this point, the finger of guilt seems to point to my TC generating
program. It will not work if I try to use the Toaster to Genlock the audio
signal to the video — with any configuration of the Toaster's genlock
functions. The Sunrize SMPTE output module works with the Toaster to achieve
this. I am still waiting for that to arrive — perhaps tomorrow?
My source is Hi8 video tape with the LTC on the left PCM audio track. I
agree with you in that no many people have experienced this problem: ergo there
must be something wrong with the way I am doing things or the way my system is
set up. My video, by the way, is played back through a TBC IV. All of my sound
clips are a minute or less, on two tracks. I am using the 1012 board. I am
working on the problem with a guy in Colorado who has similar equipment to mine
(same GVP board, etc) and he has both the 1012 and 516 boards. He is also a
beta tester for Sunrize. I hope I will have good news on this soon. GLenn.