camera sync for UVW-1800?

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

VHS can be subject to severe TIMEBASE errors (video NOT playing at the standard and constant frame-rate).
A monitor can usually compensate for these, but they can wreak havoc when trying to dub to another video device (which is attempting to record the video frames at a more precise and constant speed.)

The best way to dub a tape with poor stability is to connect its deck through a true timebase corrector (TBC) and/or frame sync device (with a large enough “window” to compensate for the non-standard source.

Or, if you have access to a small digital “Video Mixer” (more precisely called a digital Video SWITCHER),
Panasonic, Videonics (now called Focus) and DataVideo all offer these units.
The switchers can act as effective TBCs because they use internal digital clocks to “create” a stable video signal even from from various “un-sync’ed sources.
So you can feed your unstable VHS (or other source) into the switcher and send the switcher’s “stable” output to your record deck.

Edirol:
https://dvcreators.net/video-mixers

Panasonic:
https://www.studio1productions.com/vid102.htm
https://www.studio1productions.com/vid100.htm
and others

Focus:
https://www.focusinfo.com/solutions/catalog.asp?id=10

And the best of the bunch, DataVideo:
https://www.datavideo-tek.com/products/se_800_main_page.htm

Certain of these video switchers can usually be rented from companies that set-up “Hotel Ballroom Events” in most cities.

[Chuck Reti]

Simply just dub the VHS to the UVW. Then capture the beta dub. Generally works just fine unless the VHS is an absolutely awful multi-generation dub (rather than a normally awful VHS).

[J. Tad newberry]

i just went ahead and dubbed it all to Beta, then captured normally. it looks great, but, of course, took twice as long. from your guys’ experience, are you getting “more stable” VHS by running the VHS deck through a TBC or black burst generator, as well as then by-passing the dub-to-Beta workaround? just wondering if the added expense of the bb generator would be worth it, since the vast majority of my work is to and from Beta and i have no sync problems now without the bb gen. . .