ChromaKey+, SuperGen+, DCTV, & RGB Converter. & V3.1 RGB to PAL/NTSC Adapter.

[Heiroglyph]

The Chromakey requires the genlock and you can bypass the chromakey when not in use.

There's no reason not to have those two connected at once except complexity.

I don't have any definitive knowledge of how the DCTV fits in, but I'd suspect that you'd put it on the Amiga first, then the RGB converter, then the Chromakey, then the genlock and finally an RGB monitor if needed.

That will probably stick out a good 6 inches plus cable, so be really careful.

I think this will allow you to put Amiga titles over video and key people over Amiga or DCTV images.

I'm just not familiar with how the DCTV interacts with the genlock signals (it might block themm for all I know) and if the DCTV/RGB converter adds a delay that could throw off the genlock timing.

[Heiroglyph]

In retrospect, a Toaster with the Chromakey+ can do everything this set up can do and it's a well documented combination.

If you added a Flyer, then you can even use moving backgrounds.

The Toaster can output 24bit images like the DCTV can.

Just a thought.

[Heiroglyph]

The DCTV RGB converter was build specifically to allow DCTV images to work with genlocks..

I don't have a genlock to test it with, but that was the concept.
Mostly I'm sure designed to work with their own supergen, but probably others as well..

desiv

Thanks, I owned a DCTV, but just used it alone.

By the time I was doing heavy video work, I was using a Toaster.

[Heiroglyph]

If you are only using one camera, you can still use these without a time base corrector or blackburst.

Cameras have an inherently stable signal when they are live.  They don't when playing back from tape though.

If you have a digital camera, like DV, HDV or one of the SD card based ones, you can usually even use them even from recorded footage.  They don't have the same problems with the tape mechanism skewing the video timing.

You don't need anything else to get to tape, the output of the genlock will be your final output, so that should go to the tape and your genlock has very high quality output.

[Heiroglyph]

I remember this was also a legal thing in the US NTSC standard.   I had to re-produce a set of commercials because the black was too dark.

NTSC black is 7.5 IRE.  If you go darker, you risk it being interpreted like a black burst and throwing off the timing.

Same on the whites.  If you've ever watched cheap local cable commercials and wondered why the audio had a loud buzz when they show a title, it's because they used bright colors that are too bright.

The television is supposed to be adjusted to make these look correct.

At one point stations cared about quality and would refuse tapes like those, but these days they'll show anything you're willing to pay them to show.