Production Switchers

I'm Looking to make multi way box FX on multiple MEs , what will be the delay if I do a 3 way box on one ME and a 2 way box on my other ME , and then take them through my PP bus?

You can re-enter up to 4ME deep before you would incur a line drop. So your fine to do that. What switcher are you using? You can make 2 boxes in a Keyer. Or is this that your out of DVE resources on a Vision and need to jump to the next pair of ME that have DVE available.
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An Acuity, do my keyer DVEs add any additional delay to the picture ?
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Any video inside of a DVE adds 1 Frame of delay. Are you just re-entering the ME on a Bus or are you going to Re-Enter to a Keyer and then use a DVE to move those boxes back again?
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Ok that's great and what's the over all delay if I take a source directly to an Aux output?
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On an Aux or sources not in a DVE even through a cascade of 4 ME is less than 1 line of delay.
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Great is there anything else other than DVE ( or 4 plus MEs) that would cause any additional delay to be added?
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If you have a multiProcessing input board you could turn on the Frame Syncs and add delay via them.
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Great so everything is else is fine, I used have an old mixer that increased with borders and drop shadows
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Do you mind me asking what 'old mixer' that increased delay with borders and drop shadows? We want to keep the delay to a minimum on the Carbonite Multimedia system.

It seems that the delay is between 0 and 1 frames, (on average 0.5 frames), for all cameras and the switcher in genlocking to house sync.
Then some delay for processing each input, (color correction, white balance), plus a bit more delay with any video overlay on another video.

The result seems to be between 1 and 2 frames of delay from input through to output, (direct to a SDI monitor). Am I wrong in this? Anybody else measure this?
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