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Chapter 12 Connecting Professional Video and Audio Equipment 179

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Component YUV and Component RGB

Professional video equipment, such as Betacam SP decks, has component YUV (Y’C

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video inputs and outputs. Component YUV separates color and brightness information

into three signals, which keeps the color quality more accurate than that of other

systems. Component YUV is as good as analog video gets. High-end consumer devices,

such as DVD players and televisions, have increasingly begun to support component YUV.

Note: Another form of component video, component RGB, is not as widespread on

professional equipment as component YUV.

Both component YUV and RGB signals use from three to five connectors. You can use

three BNC connectors, plus a fourth (typically labeled “genlock” or “house sync”) to

send a timing signal. Sync can also be embedded in the Y or G part of the signal (using

three connectors), a separate composite signal on a fourth connector, or separate

H and V drive signals (using five connectors). See your equipment’s documentation for

more information.

SCART

Consumer PAL equipment sometimes has a special connector called a SCART connector.

A SCART connector has multiple pins that run composite, component RGB, and stereo

audio in one bundle. SCART input or output can be broken up into individual

connections using special adapters available from video and home electronics stores.

Component

On some equipment,

you can switch between

RGB and YUV modes.

Y, or green CR, or red CB, or blue

YUV

RGB

SCART connector

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