[Chet Wesley]

Can you or anyone else recommend a video compression application that can do ipod compatible quicktime, batch processing, and fast start?

We can’t afford to buy the whole final cut suite just for compressor. I am wondering if there are less expensive options. I have other apps that work fine otherwise, just lack the fast start/progressive download feature.

Thanks

[Chet Wesley]

Is it the same thing that adobe refers to as “video hinter track” in their media encoder?

[Chet Wesley]

When I used the BY-110u cameras, I am pretty sure the sync input I am refering to was a gen lock input on those cameras. I don’t know the difference between these different form of sync pulse signals, however (gen lock vs. black burst, etc).

The KM-1200 has jacks labeled “SYNC,” “HD/BL,” “VD/BB,” and just “BB.”

The ones with a slash mean that it is switchable between those two.

[Chet Wesley]

Oh, right, maybe I should have been more clear. The KM-1200 has a sync generator built in. I synced these BY-110u cameras from the jack on the back of the mixer marked “BB” into the sync input on the camera. I assume that is black burst.

So you are saying then that if the cameras don’t have sync inputs, then you have to use an external TBC which you sync to the mixer either with it’s built in sync generator, or with an external sync generator?

Thanks for the help.

[Chet Wesley]

When I tested this mixer with an old JVC BY-110, I didn’t have to use an external sync generator. Is there something about the Panasonic WV-3260 that requires you to use an external generator?

Or is it that the WV-3260 has no sync input?

Thanks

[Chet Wesley]

I’m sorry, I see someone has asked a similar question just below… but I am wondering actually if anyone has any more to add to what has been stated below.

[Chet Wesley]

Sometimes I think we forget about good old smoke and mirrors tricks.

I had to do a closeup of the sun for a project I was working on once, and I filmed a pan full of very salty boiling water. I slowed it down, manipulated the color, and added a bit of a curve to it in post.

People asked me if it was stock footage… lol.

[Chet Wesley]

Hi,
Thanks for the response. Well, I guess the idea is that I got this mixer basically for free. I have tested it with a camera with sync input, and I know the mixer works fine.

You can’t just sync the TBCs while you look at a monitor and switch between the sources and see that they are coming through fine? I am not an engineer, but I have a bit of experience with video switching and equipment, so this isn’t a totally new venture to me, just the synced inputs are new to me.

I actually have access to another switcher with built in frame syncs. I am wondering if I can make something useful out of this switcher that I got for free by spending a little money on TBCs to sync non-syncable inputs.

Could you explain what the results would be if I didn’t have a vectorscope?

Thanks

[Chet Wesley]

OK, sorry, I’ve got one further question – about needing a TBC – so essentially, what I would need if I wanted to use the KM-1200 for a mixer for sources, other than a camera with sync input, is a TBC for each channel, correct?

I am assuming I would need one with a BB (Black Burst) input, right? So I would plug the BB output from the KM-1200 into the TBC’s BB input, and plug the camera or whatever video input source into the TBC, TBC video output into KM-1200 composite input? Is there anything more to it than that?

Is there anything in particular that I would need to look for in such a TBC? The switcher has outputs labeled “SYNC,” one with a switch labeled “HD/DL” (I have no idea what that one is), another with a switch labeled “VD/BB” and then three “BB” jacks. I used the BB jack to sync the camera when I tested it (because that is the only one that had any result when I patched to the “Gen Lock” input on the camera’s CCU).

Thanks again.

[Chet Wesley]

Does anyone who knows this equipment know if the RS-110 CCU is capable of controlling any other cameras, or only the BY-110s? Did JVC generally design CCUs specifically to go with their studio cameras?

Thanks