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From: ottmar@ajberl.UUCP (Ottmar Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re:  Controling Betacam :RS422
Message-ID: <ottmar.3756@ajberl.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:44:24 GMT
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>In article <4687@mindlink.UUCP> Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait) writes:
>RS422 is a balanced line version of RS232. In most cases, you can connect an
>RS232 signal directly to RS422, I have seen this work before. I don't have the
>RS422 pinout any more, unfortunately. Last time I saw single frame recording on
>a betacam, it had a
>SMPTE timecode generator reader installed to keep track of the frames (linear
>audio track timecode), and the company I worked for caused the deck to do

As far as I know, there are possibilites to read TimeCode directly out of
the 9-pin RS422-Port of a Betacam... I've seen SONY-machines here in Germany
which do this definitly, but I don't know if this is "normal".

Ottmar
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AtelierRoehrig, Ottmar Roehrig, Hamburg, Germany
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