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  1. I have been working with this firewire device for some months, capturing my old VHS tapes (PAL) using iMovie and it works well, but now I have tried to capture a NTSC tape (VHS) and I loose the colour.

    My video casette is pal but reads ntsc tapes in my pal tv. In my tv I see the colour, but not in iMovie.

    Could someone help me?
    Thank you.
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    You need to set iMovie in NTSC mode for NTSC video, and PAL mode for PAL video. Get the program "iMovieVSS" (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=18239), which switches iMovie's video standard mode. This should fix everything, although you will need to recapture your video.
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    It's not possible to capture PAL60 with the HDB (this is what you get, when you play NTSC tapes on PAL VCRs, which can play NTSC).This thing is called NTSC on PAL, but the colour carrier (4.x MHz) is different from NTSC (3.x MHz).
    So, if you don't own a true PAL/NTSC VCR, you'll have to stay in PAL, if you want color.Some BT8... TV cards can be programmed to capture PAL60 in color (see DScaler and Avi-IO).
    I know this, because I have the same problem. 8)
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  4. Thank you for your answer. It seems that my problem is the colour carrier as you say because iMovie detect very well when I an in Pal or NTSC.

    I didn't know this when recently bought my new video tape...and now I need a new video tape

    Thank you again.
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