NSTC video through PAL AV to DV converter

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Tue May 24, 2005 11:11 am

Here's a curly one for us PAL people. I need to convert an NTSC tape to DVD. I use a PAL Canon DV camera as my AV-DV converter. My VCR correctly converts to NTSC going into the Canon, but the Canon 600i camera cannot handle it and treats the input as a PAL stream. Comsequently I have garbage on the Canon viewer and the PC. The camera doeas not have an NTSC option. Does anyone know of a PAL DV movie camera that can handle NTSC input? Thanks.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Fri May 27, 2005 12:12 pm

Sorry if that was a bit confusing, what I have is an NTSC tape which my PAL VCR can play through both RF and AV inputs directly to a PAL TV. The picture is fine, so the VCR is converting correctly. When I connect through VCR AV inputs to my AV/DV converter (Canon DV Camera) to MF4, the picture on the preview screen is all screwed up and appears to be back to NTSC format again. The viewfinder of my Canon shows a slightly less screwed up, but still screwed up NTSC-type display. My question is, I know that NTSC is being converted correctly to PAL at the VCR ouputs, but why am I still seeing NTSC type video in MF4? Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Fri May 27, 2005 12:54 pm

Sometimes the devices that convert an NTSC signal to PAL don't truly convert to PAL-50 -- I think it's more like a PAL-60. This could be acceptable to your TV, but maybe not your camcorder.

Take the software out of the mix. Try to use your camcorder as a recorder (i.e. tape the converted PAL signal from the VCR onto a tape in the camcorder -- don't hookup to your computer). This might shed some light as to where the problem starts...

chiff_chiff · Post by **chiff_chiff** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:11 am

yep, my VCR also converts NTSC to PAL, but a mentioned, only in PAL 60, so it wont capture correctly. I did actually see a setting on an old capture card that allowed to me to chose PAL 60, and this sort of worked, but it really was very poor quality.

I have never found a way of doing it well, sadly.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Sat May 28, 2005 5:32 am

Thanks guys, I give up! It should be easy but is not. I suppose what I really need is an NTSC DV camera - sadly none in this country that I can find. Thanks again.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Sat May 28, 2005 5:40 am

I suppose the question remains then, which I should have asked last time, how does anybody convert an NTSC tape to DVD using MF?
Thanks

phd · Post by **phd** » Sat May 28, 2005 11:00 am

Perhaps the Canopus ADVC 100 or 110 could solve your problem. It supposedly can handle both NTSC and PAL.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:34 pm

When you get the hardware to work.

In MF start off the project as whatever format your capturing in
which would be ntsc or pal.

Save the mpg2 file in it's captured format.
Open up a new project
Select the format you will be convert to when starting the project
either ntsc or pal.
Then import the video and export it using the project property settings etc.

MD

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Sun May 29, 2005 1:37 am

Thanks guys.