Frame Sync or Frame Store - Plasma v. CRT

[Chief Technician]

I have an issue. It's that a studio has a CRT for the engineer and a plasma for everyone else. The two are positioned such that it is obvious one lags the other. Everyone I have spoken with says to delay the CRT to match the plasma, then delay the audio monitoring path to match the video. I can grasp that concept fine. The issue is how to delay the CRT? I need two (2) frames of video delay for it. The only products I can find to date are from For-A and GrassValley, and each one is card-based and meant to be installed in a frame.

Has anyone else had to solve this problem in the past? Could anyone recommend a device that will delay video by two (2) frames? Thanks for reading!

[philper]

MANY years ago we used to have little inline frame delay boxes made by a company called
AVCOM that would be patched into the lines in MCR @ an edit house. Isn't there anything like that anymore?

Philip Perkins

[minister]

hey chief,

here is some nice reading from a thread Rail started... it includes a link to a device.

Rail Thread

my simple solution is to calculate both and switch based on my needs.

[Chief Technician]

Hey Minister,

Great find! Either I wasn't searching properly or not searching long enough. There is a product in there that would fit my short term needs for sure.