#Plug for Y/C Plus Inc.
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We have had our Y/C Plus board for as long as when they first became available.
It gave us excellent results – and caused a lot of pleased folk among our
clients.
Two weeks ago… the board gave a few "stutters" and eventually would not work
at all. We reported this back to the folk at Y/C Plus Inc.
Within 24 hours had a call from them that a replacement board was on its way.
To-day that replacement board arrived here.
Would like to say a public "THANK YOU" to the folk at Y/C Plus, who seem to
stand right behind their product. Not many vendors respond to a post
production crisis as they did in my case.
Regards to all, HILARY
Couldn't agree with you more….we got a Y/C Plus board shortly after they came
out and our signal quality improved dramatically. Fortunately, we've had nary a
glitch or burp on ours.
Rob @ Stone Table Video
How does Y/C Plus differ from the DPS Personal Component Adaptor? It is a bit
more expensive and I'm wondering if the added cost translates into Goodness or
nothing.
Can't give you a comparison as I've never tried them side by side. I
can say that when the Y/C Plus board came out, we went after it
because it was the simplest (and basically only) thing out there. We
do all of our editing on S-VHS and there is no way I can say how
pleased we've been with the board….the output quality is superb.
I'd sure be interested to hear about DPS's product from anyone.
Thanks for the reply. I was talking to a friend yesterday and we got confused
about the Y/C Plus and similar products: how can they improve the signal, when
the Toaster just takes composite anyway? Do they bypass some decoding/encoding
circuitry in the Toaster's input/output hardware?
Great question re: how the Y/C Plus improves the signal…..now, I'm
no tech-weenie…just a guy who got interested in video and am
picking this stuff up as I go along (on the fly, as it were). I do
know this: there's a guy named Faroujda, who has been the premiere
hardware guy for video, developed the innards of this li'l beast.
Instead of using the BNC connectors, which carries the composite
signal, you use the cables that split the video signal into seperated
bands….Y and C, I/m assuming. The difference is clearly seen by the
necked eye in two areas immediately: color bleed and dot crawl.
Hope things are goin' well for you out on the West Coast, shakin' and bakin'.
Take care,
Rob
The Way Y/C Plus Y/C ++ and the DPS Personal component adaptor work in
my limited understanding, is mostly by NOT breaking the S-Video
signal down to composite any more than neccesary. The Toaster STILL
works on the Composite signal, but by having one of these Y/C
adaptors allows your TBC to input and output S-Video, thereby saving
one breakdown/Buildup step. Then the S-Video output of the Y/C
boards allows the greater resolution of your VTR's S-Vid. inputs to
be taken advantage of. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from all
the literature I've read there are NO products available that enable
the Toaster board itself to process S-Video. This will undoubtably
be a future upgrade path…I hope.
Later, Jim
Sounds to me like you're dang right, Jim….
Upgrade to allow Y/C would be nice.
Rob
David,
Pick up the current copy of Video Toaster User. Inside you will find a product
review of the Prime Image YC++. The article also explains the advantages of
using that device or others that process the Toaster's composite output before
ot gets to your record vtr. There ARE advantages, but they may not be warranted
for your particular situation, depending on your record vtr's input
capabilities (Y/C in/out etc.) , yout Toaster platform, and what type of
graphics you are outputting from Toaster. In most cases, the artifacts that are
"filtered out" by these aftermarket devices, tend to show up in CG images. It
should also be noted that the filtering is more noticable with the earlier
version of the Toaster hardware. The newer Toaster doesn't seem to be as prone
to the dot crawl and ringing of luninance signals associated with CG type
graphics and "noisy" textures.
Frank
Hilary,
I had a similar expeience with Smith A/V only my problem was a little
tear at the frame where certain edits took place. Their reponse defines
'professional service" in my book.
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