Will This Work?

[midas28]

A friend of mine bought a vhs on ebay from Europe which was made in the PAL format. My VCR is not PAL, but I have dvd recorder which has a built in "time base corrector?". If I run the VCR through the DVD recorder, will I be able to transfer it?

I know, I just could try it, but he needs to mail it to me and I want to save him the postage if I can.

thanks,
Matt

[canadateck]

You need a PAL VCR. I think.

[guns1inger]

A time base corrector on it's own won't do format conversion. Does your DVD recorder accept PAL input ? Will the VCR output NTSC ?

[Cunhambebe]

I suppose your TV is NTSC. You can buy a transcoder (hardware) to go from PAL to NTSC (VCR>Transcoder>NTSC TV), or you can try to capture the analog video as PAL to your PC, edit with Sony Vegas v. 6.0 and re-encode it to NTSC. In this case you'll go from 25 FPS (PAL) to 29.97 FPS (NTSC). Vegas is going to interpolate the frames, anyway; the result will be acceptable. I'm not sure if this convertion will also match the audio file. If Vegas does not work for the audio, I mean, if the audio is out of sync., you'll probably have to read a guide around here on how to use BeSweet to fix this.

[johns0]

You cant capture pal vhs with a ntsv vcr to computer,has to be a pal or multiconverter vcr,no way around it.