Does the Panasonic WJ AVE5 have a built in TBC?

[BrainStorm69]

I have seen claims that this piece of equipment has a full frame TBC (as well as being a video mixer), but have not been able to find any "official" specs to that effect. Anyone know for sure?

[lordsmurf]

How old is it?
The word "TBC" gets tossed around like candy these days, and is very often entirely incorrect.

[gshelley61]

Some video mixers have dual TBC/Frame Sync in them. Their purpose is to allow smooth transitions from one video source to another (like two VCR's, a VCR and a video camera, etc.) Without genlocked TBC/Frame Sync on each source, you wind up with jumpy, glitchy edits.

[pluche]

I had one of those and sold it some 5 years ago - changed to computer editing
this Panasonic mixing table was a fine piece of equipment - fade in and fade out, mixing sources - adding titels etc... etc...
you could even use it to eliminate macrovision from commercial tapes but the latter is not recommendable: it tended to ruin the internal power unit after a couple of macrovision protected tapes

[yew]

Here is the answer:

All of the Panasonic WJ-****series have built in DFS and it is written on the face of most of those models but I can assure you when I first wanted a WJ-AVE5 I confirmed it with the sales rep (central audio visual, orlando, FL, usa) and his response was what I just told you.

With a Digital Frame Synchronizer there is no need for the TBC component as one performs the function of synchronizing simultaneous inputs through digital conversion (using a RAMDAC) and then using a simple algorithm to generate the bitmap at each point of the fade/wipe/dissolve transfer (and adds cool features like mosaic, chroma and luminescence keying, paint, etc) and the other - Time Base Corrector essentially performs the function maintaining the analog signal - Panasonic's Digital Frame Synchronizer is what makes their products so appealing.



Yes the WJ-AVE5 does have a DFS just like any of the WJ-MX10, MX12, MX50s, etc - we used a JVC unit with a seperate TBC and the crappy part about having a time base corrector is that they dont come with wipes or even basic FX - those are additional add on units making panasonic the very best buys as its DFS includes those however I would not suggest the mx 50 due to its price tag only resulting in a ton of wipe patterns and inputs - a good proucer/director only needs 2 inputs and perhaps a switchbox hooked onto one for plenty of connections.

i LOVE the Panasonic WJ- series - I borrowed an ollld WJ-3500 from my high school and it actually had direct video camera support but only 17 wipe patterns but I was 13 and boy did i have fun with it!


Ray Here is the answer:

All of the Panasonic WJ-****series have built in DFS and it is written on the face of most of those models but I can assure you when I first wanted a WJ-AVE5 I confirmed it with the sales rep (central audio visual, orlando, FL, usa) and his response was what I just told you.

With a Digital Frame Synchronizer there is no need for the TBC component as one performs the function of synchronizing simultaneous inputs through digital conversion (using a RAMDAC) and then using a simple algorithm to generate the bitmap at each point of the fade/wipe/dissolve transfer (and adds cool features like mosaic, chroma and luminescence keying, paint, etc) and the other - Time Base Corrector essentially performs the function maintaining the analog signal - Panasonic's Digital Frame Synchronizer is what makes their products so appealing.



Yes the WJ-AVE5 does have a DFS just like any of the WJ-MX10, MX12, MX50s, etc - we used a JVC unit with a seperate TBC and the crappy part about having a time base corrector is that they dont come with wipes or even basic FX - those are additional add on units making panasonic the very best buys as its DFS includes those however I would not suggest the mx 50 due to its price tag only resulting in a ton of wipe patterns and inputs - a good proucer/director only needs 2 inputs and perhaps a switchbox hooked onto one for plenty of connections.

i LOVE the Panasonic WJ- series - I borrowed an ollld WJ-3500 from my high school and it actually had direct video camera support but only 17 wipe patterns but I was 13 and boy did i have fun with it!


Ray