GARLIC TACH-TO-SMPTE CONVERTER


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Many planetaria and space theaters incorporate large format motion picture projectors. There are many instances where it is desirable to synchronize other theater media elements to the motion picture projector. You may wish houselights to fade up and down at precise frames, or lightning strobes to fire during a cinematic thunderstorm.

Whatever the application, the Garlic card can help make it happen. It converts a quadrature tach pulse from your motion picture projector into SMPTE Time Code, to which SPICE Automation cues (and any other SMPTE-slave) may be synchronized. Simply line-up your start frame in the projector gate before the show and Garlic will feed accurate SMPTE to the SPICE Automation host computer, accounting for the projector's speed variations and keeping SPICE Automation in frame sync. Call Sky-Skan for currently supported devices.

SPECIFICATIONS

INPUT/OUTPUT CONNECTIONS

MANUAL CONTROL (opt) - 25 pin female Dshell. Allows remoting of the display and the control switches.
TACH - 9 pin female Dshell. The input of a quadrature tach.
SMPTE OUT - 3 pin male XLR connector. Balanced audio level time code capable of driving 600 ohms.
ZETA-3 - 9 pin male Dshell. RS-232C control connection to the Zeta-III.

PANEL CONTROLS

SET-UP - Switch that sets the nutmeg output time code to the configurable start time, and instructs the Zeta III to do the same. LED lights to indicate active.
INTERLOCK - Starts the unit syncing to the tach input.
LOCAL - Breaks the interlock and stops the tach synchronization. LED will blink until lock is achieved, then stay on.

PANEL DISPLAYS

FILM TIME CODE - Eight red 7 segment displays showing SMPTE out time.

GENERAL CAPABILITIES

The Garlic in conjunction with a Zeta III synchronizer (made by Adam Smith) slaves an audio transport to a film projector to allow higher quality audio and more tracks than film projectors offer.

MAXIMUM CABLE RUN

MANUAL CONTROL - 100 ft.
TACH - 100 ft.
SMPTE OUT - 25 ft.
ZETA-3 - 50 ft.

POWER REQUIREMENTS

Card draws necessary power directly from the NUTMEG
Card requires two open option-card slots in a NUTMEG

SS 275-120 GARLIC Tach-to-SMPTE Converter