Mail Call 5 addendum

This is so incredibly cool, I love the idea that it finally lets you put some of your era appropriate cameras to good use as they might've been used originally! Thanks for the sneak peek and welcome back. Hope everything that necessitated the long unexpected car trip is resolving for you.

btw idk if you discord, but if you do, feel free to join my server - then I can maybe pepper you with more questions :p

Cathode Ray Dude

I'm thinking each channel might have the ability to hold a frame on its own, too. Like each channel has its own still store. Let me know if you figure it out, because I'm really curious, haha

Pulsar

So that was my initial thought, and yeah, it seems unquestionable that this is the case, yet replacing the image in FBF1 and FBF2 didn't affect it, so... there's three framebuffers?? at least?? I mean, the frame store was an additional feature on this thing (which seems... odd for 2008?) so it seems strange that they would just have a spare hanging out in there, but I mean, there's no other explanation for what's happening here, so... I'm thinking this MIGHT be sourced from one of the keyers, since those appear to sort of act as framebuffers on their own. Still don't know what it's doing on ch5, I'm guessing you're right that it's sort of short-circuited to that input but I have yet to figure out where *from*.

Cathode Ray Dude

It looks like the switcher has one of the frame buffers going into channel 5. I know Tricasters can pipe buffers directly into channels, so I'd guess this can do the same. It may even allow you to pull an image up on the buffer, assign it to a channel, and then it buffers it directly into the channel allowing you to pull up another image in the buffer, letting the channel itself act as a buffer (albeit, not a switchable one). Which would free up the actual buffers so you can switch stuff around in the background while holding a still on output.

Pulsar