Re: syncing 2 16mm projectors

From: Jim Carlile (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 18:22:23 PDT


 
By design and necessity, all DVD and CD players run at EXACTLY the same
speed. They all work off of a digital clock-- they're just like computers.
 
If they didn't, they wouldn't work.
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/25/2007 6:41:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
email suppressed writes:

Except that digitally you wouldn't have to do it off of 2 dvd players. All
you'd have to do is drive it from a laptop, and split the signal to 2
projectors. And if the 2 tracks are different, there is still software that
does this cheap and easily.

On 9/24/07 6:11 PM, "Pablo de Ocampo" <email suppressed> wrote:

> Running two 16mm loops the same length bye eyeballing it isn't going to
give
> you any better sync than running two dvd's by eyebaling it. You still have
> two motors that are not exactly going to be running at the exact same
speed.
>

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