A Look at Time Base Correctors – Tech Talk with Marc Franklin
Marc Franklin, Creative COW’s Tape-to-Digital forum moderator, talks about a very important piece of gear for the video archiving business: the time base corrector or “TBC.” These devices, some stand alone and some built into VTRs / VCRs, stabilize the video being output to your digital encoder.
In the “old analog days” of production and post-production, video tapes being played back to air or in a linear editing bay, needed to pass through a TBC, before going into a video switcher to mix with live shots or just editing on an A/B roll edit system.
This video goes through different kinds of TBCs, and some of the features and their uses.
If you have any questions feel free to post in Creative COW’s Tape-to-Digital forum.
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