Problem with Horita BSG-50?

[Bob Zelin]

There is no problem with playback, only the vertical shift when previewing through the VTR. I was hoping the UVW-1800 would do double duty as a component to S-video converter to feed my DVD recorder, etc… but it looks like that option is out

REPLY –
Hi Jason –
not only can you not use the UVW-1800 as a converter, you CANNOT use it as a Frame Synchronizer. Many people say that if you have to lock up an unstable tape (like a VHS or old 3/4″), you simply pass it thru the Beta 1800 and use it’s TBC. This is nonsense, and an old wives tale. The only way to get a bad tape to “lockup” is to send it thru a FRAME SYNCHRONIZER (which can be anything like a Hotronics or Datavideo cheapie TBC/Frame Sync). True time base correctors (like used in Sony Beta VTR’s) have no ability to replace the sync interval, and do nothing for “locking up” a bad tape.

Bob Zelin

[Jason Jenkins]

Thanks Bob! Good info –I had some of those same assumptions…

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

[Tim Ward]

I know I’m late to this party, but that sounds like something I used to have happen all the time on the 1800’s I had in my control room. They would do it on playback especially, but only if I was using an A/B edit controller. All I had to do was flip the deck to Local then back to Remote, and it was fixed.

Tim