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Posted by blackburst@aol.com on 10/03/29 11:40
Videonics makes a nifty little frame sync switcher for just under
$1000., but there are used on EBay much cheaper. It has both RCA and
S-video. It will do all you ask. It is not "broadcast quality" (look at
the output on a WFM to see!), but it would suffice fine for your
purposes.
The Panasonics you mention will all do much the same thing and are a
bit better built, be be cautious about used gear! Also, when you do a
hard switch on the Panasonics, the picture freezes momentarily. You can
get around this by making the transition a dissolve between busses, and
setting it for the fastest speed.
johnlivingston wrote:
> I'm the librarian at an elementary school and run our little TV studio.
> We use two cameras (an old Pansonic VHS unit and a fairly recent Sony
> miniDV camera) to broadcast internally a live news program each morning
> that the students produce. We've been using cheap A/B switches to
> switch between cameras, cable TV, and a laptop running PowerPoints. I
> bought a Pioneer DVR to record all of this and was dismayed by how much
> noise the A/B switches made (not to mention how crude the
> "transitions" were). I'd like to get an A/V mixer, mostly so we can
> fade smoothly between the two cameras. I wouldn't mind one that had
> some effects built in, particularly PiP. I'm using composite RCA
> connectors currently from the cameras, although I could use S-video
> connections instead. I will probably have to raise any funds needed for
> this, so I'd like to keep it in the hundreds of dollars, and not the
> thousands.
>
> Some web searching has turned up the Numark AVM01, which can be had for
> about $600 refurbished, and the Edirol V-4, which is more like $900,
> and seems aimed more at DJs. I've also seen older, Panasonic units
> like the WJ-AVE7, which seem to go for about $200 or so on eBay. All
> these seem to basically do what I need, but I'm pretty much guessing at
> this point.
>
> Your suggestions would be hugely appreciated.
>
> John
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