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<DIV>The horror stories of Blanking.</DIV>
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<DIV>We did all types of tricks to keep it legal. Some of the stuff that
came through was really bad. </DIV>
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<DIV>The machines all had to be checked and we reset the blanking width to the
10.8 (?) width. The VR-1200 had to have the jumpers moved on the PROC
AMP delay line. It came factory set at 11.1, the max. We ran
external sync on the proc amps so that the timing was easy. All the
machines were color framed by the editors so it always came up with out the half
cycle shift left or right. I think there was a kit for the AVR-2 to
help. I would have to do some research.</DIV>
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<DIV>We used Squeeze zoom to DVE the picture or on some spots we even put
a color border around the bad part and made it part of the visual look.
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<DIV>We found that most Blanking issues were caused by sloppiness in the
operations at other places. We prided ourselves on keeping everything to
the best so that we could not be put down by the rivals in town.</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
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