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AV by Dave demos: real AV problems you can break yourself
Why your screen is late
Play →008 · CAMERAS
A camera with its own clock, a room with one clock, and the waiting room in between. Watch the picture tear, fix it, then find out why "one frame of delay" is a myth.
AJA FS4 manual v3.1, Frame Delay: about four frames in HD modes
Was it the cable?
Play →010 · TROUBLESHOOTING
Camera, cable, box, cable, screen. One of them is broken. Swap one thing at a time, watch the suspects list shrink, and learn why a cable swap also re-plugs the port.
AJA Support FAQ 7308: two different cables, two different ports, a known-good cable
FIELD KIT
Sync & Signal Field Kit
Four quick references for when a picture tears, drops or won't handshake: the tearing card, the genlock checklist, the EDID/HDCP tree and a browser tear test.
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AV by Dave
Real AV problems. Break them yourself.
Each demo is a slowed-down working model of one production problem. See it fail, see why, then fix it. One true thing per demo, with the manufacturer's page to prove it.