INTELLIGENCE
For todays A/V productions a precision synchronization of the used audio and video equipment is imperative.
To reach the maximum of accuracy for synchronization of audio and video equipment, iCLOCK offers a unique, high-precision signal management. The phase relationships of all input and output signals will be observed and adjusted in real-time automatically, aligned to AES11-1997/2003 und EBU R83-1996. This process reaches a control accuracy in the nanosecond range.
INTEGRATION
Due to requirements of todays professional A/V studios, iCLOCK offers in its basic version a variety of clock outputs with variable adjustable parameters.
In the case that often devices of different generations have to work together, especially the status bit settings of the AES/EBU and S/PDIF outputs are individually adjustable in different parameters.
As for future standards of digital audio technologies iCLOCK offers already today an unequalled variety of synchronizable and generatable Word Clock rates. On this occasion the system does not limit to the currently “highest” clock rate of 192.0kHz, but it supports a total of 36 different clock rates up to 24.576MHz(!). Included are so-called Super Clocks for Digidesign’s ProTools™ system as well as DSD and DXD clock rates for SACD mastering applications. Due to iCLOCK’s unique principle of frequency generation all clock rates can be routed to the Word Clock outputs individually.
iCLOCK provides standardly all pull up and pull down factors for audio, video and film transfers. As well as a powerful a digital varispeed function. That can be used to accommodate a playback to the pitch of the singers voice or to generate new pull up/pull down rates. As for simultaneous editing of PAL and NTSC based video material, a second video generator (P/NVSG-02, 8010-010) is available as an upgrade. Both generators are adjustable independently and can be locked to any accepted incoming reference signal. Furthermore an alarm interface (iC-ALARM, 8005-065) is optionally available to observe different possible failure conditions, like reference clock loses or power supply loses, from a centralized location.
