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From: jmdavis@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (j.michael.davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Chaining Genlocks
Message-ID: <367@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 15:18:02 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Is it possible to chain two genlocks together, RGB out to RGB in?

The end result is to get live video in between two computer animated
planes, and to do it cheaply. (Slight hardware nodification of the
genlock is not necessarily out of the question.)

Quite frankly I don't think this is possible, as the genlock attempts
to synch one of the system clocks to the video frequency and the chained
to genlock would be trying to synch up the clock of the other genlock.
Also, i believe the output of the genlock is analog, even though the input
has digital information associated with it. (Color 0 is determined through
digital means, not by color comparison.)

Anyway, I don't have the circuit diagram of my genlock. And I am just confused
enough to believe that I am overlooking some clever way of manipulating genlocks
to get a live video sandwiched effect.

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