Specifications

C2-6104A OPERATION MANUAL

8.2 Items Associated with the Adjust outputs group

This menu group allows adjustments to be made that specifically affect the output

of the unit, including output resolution and locking/overlaying onto a computer or

video source.

This menu item allows the lock mode to be selected and the lock source to be

defined. The top line of the display shows the current detected resolution of the

selected lock source (RGB1 in this example). The lock mode can be either Off,

Genlock or Lock & Mix, with the operation of these shown in the following table:

Lock mode Description

Off The output resolution of the Output is defined by the setting

for Output Resolution and there will be no background

source visible.

Genlock The output video will be “Genlocked” to the selected lock

source. The output signal will be synchronous to the input

sync and adjustable but there will still be no lock source

visible.

Lock & Mix The output video will be locked to the selected source, the

syncs will be locked (but with an additional internal video

processing delay) and the background for the output will be

that of the Lock source (unless foreground and background

are swapped).

Frm.lock* The frame rate of the output will be locked to the frame rate

of the input. This can only work if the output resolution

frame rate matches that of the lock source frame rate.

‘Frm.lock’ will flash until a highly stable lock has been

achieved.

*Only certain models support this.

In both Genlock and Lock & Mix modes the source selected for the lock input

determines the resolution of the Output image. The output resolution for the entire

image can be no different than the resolution of the lock source. All synchronization

signals are re-generated within the unit so they may look slightly different when

compared on an oscilloscope to the original source.

In Frame-lock mode, the output resolution is independent of the lock source, but the

frame-rate must match that of the source (e.g. 1280x1024 60Hz can be frame-

locked to 640x480 60Hz). Frame-lock is very useful for synchronizing a HD-SDI

output (e.g. 1080i 59.94Hz) to a composite video source (e.g. NTSC), or for scaling

one resolution to another while avoiding any potential frame-rate conversion

artifacts.

'H/V shift' can be used to align the output to the input more accurately, but this may

cause instability until the lock is re-acquired ('Frm.lock' will flash).

800 x 600 60Hz

Lock mode [Off] [RGB1]