Slow motion and freeze frames are also possible.
Other Advantages of TBCs and Frame Synchronizers
Dynamic Tracking Heads
TBCs and frame synchronizers can give you a couple of other capabilities as well. If your VTR has a dynamic tracking head, a TBC will allow you to do broadcast-quality slow motion. A dynamic tracking head is a video head that adjusts itself to follow the video track when the tape changes speed. When you slow down the speed of videotape playback, the relationship between the video head and the angle of the video track changes. The dynamic tracking head automatically compensates for this change and always stays centered on the video track. A TBC or frame synchronizer simply maintains the proper sync with the rest of the system, ...
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