Newbie question on capturing PAL video

[apraveen]

Hi

I have a Sony digital handycam cassette recorded using Sony PAL handycam TRV340e in India. What are the options for me to view this cassette here in US? Neither I not any of my friends have PAL handycams here. We only have NTSC handycams and we are not able to play the cassette in these handycams. Is there any way we can play/capture the PAL video to the computer or any other video device?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Praveen.

[FulciLives]

Hi

I have a Sony digital handycam cassette recorded using Sony PAL handycam TRV340e in India. What are the options for me to view this cassette here in US? Neither I not any of my friends have PAL handycams here. We only have NTSC handycams and we are not able to play the cassette in these handycams. Is there any way we can play/capture the PAL video to the computer or any other video device?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Praveen.

You need to be able to play back the tape. So you need a PAL capable playback device. In short you need to get a PAL handycam. No way to play it back on USA equipment.

You might want to search the net for companies that do conversion. However most will convert it to NTSC but probably onto to VHS ... maybe DVD if you are lucky.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Even if you do get a PAL capable playback device you would either have to buy a seperate standards converter to convert the PAL output to NTSC or your best bet would be to capture it as PAL and do the PAL to NTSC conversion on the computer while encoding it to DVD.