Got a rental SRW-5500 in today and I've set it up as I always do. Starting with the Factory vtr settings and tweaking a few thing I like. I run with external sync from composite SD black when doing digital cuts to tape and it works fine. To black the tape I set the deck to black on the internal signal generator and silence for audio. Whenever I black tapes using the internal generator I always notice the stop light flashes as if there was no sync or problem sync. To be safe when blacking tapes I unpatch any video input and I switch the servo reference to input video. On today's machine when I looked at the composite character generator out while blacking I noticed the black box of time code was dithering left and right consistantly and then I noticed the front panel of the deck said lost lock. I busted the record and have found that unless I set the servo reference to auto or external when blacking internally there appears to be some sort of unstable reference like issue. I have never seen this behavior before and I've worked with this model a lot. You can black a tape with the machine standalone with no signals using the internal generators so why is this machine unstable when not set to reference the external sync source? This seems like a broke. Given I reset to factory I feel the main settings are correct. Perhaps there is some odd Novram setting that is tweaked that I've never had to deal with. I do realize that for some reason the internal video signal generator always seems to have a very different timing window compared to when the deck is just inputting a regular HDSDI source but I never seen this instability on the composite output when blacking tapes. Anybody got an idea what might be up here?
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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