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  miniconverters delay

  Posted by Jerome Ternoy on January 5, 2012 at 4:42 pm

  Hi,

  I’d like to find somewhere delais informations for miniconverters.

  It’s really useful to know when you use them in live production….

  Regards

  Jerome

  Jeff Hartman replied 14 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Hartman

  January 5, 2012 at 9:22 pm

  It would be helpful to know which miniconverters you are asking about: while most add only minimal delay to the video signal (on the order of microseconds), a unit that incorporates a frame synchronizer like the up/down/cross converter will delay the signal substantially — on the order of 1/30th of a second for an interlaced format.

  For a converter that doesn’t synchronize, the delay between input and output will be essentially constant. If you’re feeding many typical digital production switchers that have an input timing range of plus or minus half a line of video, the delay added by the converter is almost nil.

  On the other hand, a synchronzier circuit will have a varying delay between its input and output — the exact delay at any moment depends on the relationship between input timing and the reference feeding the synchronizer.

  Is your concern video system timing, or something else like minimizing latency in an IMAG system?

  Jeff Hartman
  Engineering Project Manager
  Newport Television, Northeast

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