#Genlock Help
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I typed an earlier message and mistakenly left in the "toolbox" file
instead of videophile, then couldn't find it ther resend this and file it
properly-disregard the other if you find it somewhere The output of my
genlock is horrible, and Don Curtis said that you had left an earlier
message (which I cannot find) telling of a resistor that can be removed in
order to improve the genlock signal. If you would care to repeat that
information for me I would greatly appreciate it.
While I heard that the genlock was supposed to be an improvement over the
native NTSC composite video from the Amiga, mine is even wor and white
levels are boosted considerably. Also, colorburst, as seen on a scope,
appears to be shifted down toward sync about 20 IRE. Neither one of my time
base correctors even wants to recognize the genlock as a color signal, and
passes it through as an apparently stable monochrome picutre. Finally,
active video seems to be shifted to the right (or possibly blanking is
outrageously wide), so that video black shows on the left side of the
screen. Does any of this sound familiar?
I have been able to get an acceptable picture by first laying the signal
down on 3/4" tape, then passing that back through a TBC to correct the
levelsbut this is not what I want to have to do if I can fix the genlock to
get a good first generation image. If you do have a solution to these
problems, feel free to get as technical as you want. If I can't understand
what you are saying, I have access to television engineers who can. Thank
you, Gene