8mm home movies to PAL in NTSC country

[fmctm1sw]

Ok, I checked through a few threads and I believe I know the answer to this. But I must explain directly what I want to do. My neighbor asked me to put a 8mm home movie on a DVD. I figured, no problem. That is until she told me she was sending it home to the UK. I'm in Japan. My initial idea was to simply capture at 352 or 720 X 576 and letterbox the areas between 480 and 576. I am assuming she has an NTSC camera. Aside from the resolution, I would just capture at 25 fps instead of 29.97. But something tells me it can't be that easy. How should I handle this?

[andyp1]

UK equipment can play back NTSC without a problem , so you should be OK without converting to PAL.

[hech54]

He's in Japan?....Tape is going to U.K.?

OK....NOW I get it.
Yep....skip the conversion process....it's not worth it. The U.K. stuff will play it reasonably well.

[FulciLives]

Ok, I checked through a few threads and I believe I know the answer to this. But I must explain directly what I want to do. My neighbor asked me to put a 8mm home movie on a DVD. I figured, no problem. That is until she told me she was sending it home to the UK. I'm in Japan. My initial idea was to simply capture at 352 or 720 X 576 and letterbox the areas between 480 and 576. I am assuming she has an NTSC camera. Aside from the resolution, I would just capture at 25 fps instead of 29.97. But something tells me it can't be that easy. How should I handle this?

Just capture as normal NTSC and then after you capture (hopefully to an AVI format) then you can convert to PAL if you so wish.

You can't capture NTSC with PAL settings ... it just won't work right.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[upshot]

Ok, I checked through a few threads and I believe I know the answer to this. But I must explain directly what I want to do. My neighbor asked me to put a 8mm home movie on a DVD. I figured, no problem. That is until she told me she was sending it home to the UK. I'm in Japan. My initial idea was to simply capture at 352 or 720 X 576 and letterbox the areas between 480 and 576. I am assuming she has an NTSC camera. Aside from the resolution, I would just capture at 25 fps instead of 29.97. But something tells me it can't be that easy. How should I handle this?

Just capture as normal NTSC and then after you capture (hopefully to an AVI format) then you can convert to PAL if you so wish.

You can't capture NTSC with PAL settings ... it just won't work right.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Belive it or not mainconcept pvr captures 720x480 at 25fps from NTSC... a sort of hybrid... But, this is a different story...