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Some success today. I was able to get the S400 sync card to keep the output locked. However the content is still drifting. Here are the changes I made. I noticed today that even though my WO preference was set to 60hz and I had manually set the displays to 60 hz (which I was able to verify on Decimator screen) when I took the servers online the decimators show that they are receiving 59.94 and if I go back to the AMD sync I see the output and no longer frame locked. The fix for this was to set the WO preference to 59.94, manually set the display to 59.94 and then sync all the display together. Now the sync still works when I take the systems online and they stay in sync on a reboot. I also swapped put the production laptop for a server that is running the production laptop. Now everything is much closer, but their still a lot of drift. The majority of the time the servers are in sync but then it slips a few frames, catches up and then slip and catches up again.

Yes I’m positive there is no black on the clip. I checked the clip in QuickTime and I combined the clips in final cut and there is no black when editing. I’ll look into pre roll setting. Right now I’m using a decent laptop as the production computer, but I’m wonder if I should be using another display server as the production.

I try to use the original prores 422 files and unfortunately I'm still see the flash of black. See attached video. Both the production laptop and display servers have m.2 drives so performance should not me and issue. Img 9196-1.m4v

Thanks for your help. I’ll rebuild my show and test it Monday. You said it was best have separate clips for each cue on the same timeline, but after splitting the clips into separate files and snapping them together the same layer I get a flash of black when the play head crosses clip one to clip two. The content was exported from Final Cut Pro as ProRes 422 and the convert to Hap with AVF batch converter. Hap set to 100%

So how should I program a show that has 28 cues that need to be tight with an actor on stage. ie they say their line and I follow along. Is single timeline safer to use. Should I render the entire show as a single video and just have stop and start cues?

I'm using a steam deck and companion to fire cue commands to different timelines on the production server. Sometimes when I set the command a cue will play in sync, sometimes its out of sync and then I'll send the same command and they will be back in sync. I'm use 10g cards in the servers but they are on a 1g basic switch.

I need some help in getting 2 Display servers to play constantly in sync. My setup is 2 servers and 1 production Laptop running v6.6.2. The servers are have w9100 GPUs and S400 Sync cards. Content is rendered HAP Some times the servers play in sync but then during rehearsals and testing I can see the outputs lose sync, Not just by a frame sometimes by a second. I configured the S400 card according to https://knowledge.dataton.com/knowledge/watchout/how-do-i-set-up-sync-with-s400-without-house-reference But when I reboot I lose the sync settings and I think I if take the servers out of fullscreen reset the S400 setting when I bring the server "online" I notice the sync lights on the s400 go out and when I check the S400 card I notice the sync setting are disabled again.