Video Sync Offset in PT11 not that useful

[reichman]

In the reference manual it says:

"When using a video peripheral which is locked to video reference, offsets will be rounded to the nearest full frame."

The Syncheck reveals this to be true, but with an AJA T-Tap (not a genlockable device) it is also true. In my project studio, settings of zero get me under 0.1 frames discrepancy (pretty good). But in our main studio, Syncheck reports a consistent 0.4 frame, or about 20ms discrepancy. You can't correct for this using the video sync offset window! So I resorted to using a Time Adjuster plug-in on the 5.1 monitoring bus. A little weird.

That's the bad news. The good news is that PT11 without genlock is much, much tighter than PT10 without genlock. The Syncheck results suggest that you don't need to genlock if all you're doing is playback.

Using a Mac Pro 6,1, PTHD 11.3.1, and an AJA T-Tap.