NTSC capture is in black and white only

[marcus2704]

Hi,

I am trying to capture an NTSC source, and get black and white output, presumably because my card is set to PAL mode judging by posts on this forum. My question is how do I set my card to NTSC mode? I have a Geforce FX 5600 card with VIVO, I cannot see an option to do this anywhere under my cards properties. Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards

[jdizzy40]

As far as I know you won't with that cards software support. Maybe a third party App. Anyone?

[marcus2704]

I contacted Sparkle themselves, and they said Id need to alter the options on Power Director pro which came with the card. Clearly this isnt the case, as there were no relevant options to do this, and again its capturing in black and white much the same as VirtualDub and iuVCR. If anyone has any ideas how to do this Id appreciate it as I really need to capture from NTSC sources.

[cyclejim]

I contacted Sparkle themselves, and they said Id need to alter the options on Power Director pro which came with the card. Clearly this isnt the case, as there were no relevant options to do this, and again its capturing in black and white much the same as VirtualDub and iuVCR. If anyone has any ideas how to do this Id appreciate it as I really need to capture from NTSC sources.

I dont know if this will help for your situation but for whats its worth....with my Hauppauge PVR-250 I also got b/w from NTSC sources and it was a problem with the input setting. I had to choose between s-video or composite. Once I had it set to composite (which I was using from my VCR) I saw the display in color.

[marcus2704]

Specifically, I aim to capture footage from a PS2 as I need to demonstrate something. The PS2 is NTSC, and is running NTSC software. I am using a composite connection, I dont have Svideo leads but beleive it would make no difference as the NTSC/PAL differences still apply to Svideo. I am using VirtualDub, iuVDR and Power Director Pro software, and have selected source as NTSC-B/NTSC-M. I am worried that I have wasted upwards of £150 on a card that wont let me capture NTSC, but I find that hard to beleive. Is it normal practice to have to "switch" your card between NTSC and PAL settings and if so is it usually a hardware or software issue?

[Dragonsf]

What sort of NTSC is your PS2 outputting?Is this NTSC 3.x or NTSC 4.x?
If it is NTSC 4.x (or PAL60), a B&W capture would be normal.

[marcus2704]

Hi, the PS2 outputs NTSC 3.58.

[marcus2704]

OK in failing everything I can think of doing (Ive since checked jumpers which there was none, and the BIOS) Ive decided to cut my losses and purchase a new capture card.

Can anyone recommend a half decent one that WILL enable me to capture in NTSC without the resultant black and white images?

[ydgla]

Have spoken to Pinnacles ( My Capture card) with Adobe 6.5 and they tell me that it cannot be done, The NTSC output signal to the UK tv is PAL60
This is at the wrong colour frequancy and it will never work.
I found a Sony X731 VCR it is a world wide VCR works on all voltages and is switchable to all world setting. Have just converted 6 NTSC video tape to DVD-R.

A small loss in quality but no worse than the original tv picture.

[Vejita-sama]

Actually black & white sounds more like a SVideo v. composite problem to me (could be NTSC v. PAL too I suppose).

[marcus2704]

You are indeed right there, I stumbled across that solution last night when I found an Svideo cable and tried that.

Thanks for your help guys :)

[OdubruS]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=168372&highlight=pal60

check this thread

[TheGr8Steve]

I wasted my money on an Asus v8420 deluxe videocard that had S-video inputs and outputs as well as composite, and it seemed to pick up color video fine. Then one day, as I was experimenting with taking the S-video output of my Satellite receiver into that Asus S-Vid input, I suddenly went B&W and I never got my color back. I wrote numerous E-mails to Asus and about 6 months later I got an E-mail that sounded like this: "No understand english language too well. You call this phone number, you ask for help." Of course it was a non-toll free number half way around the world. I finally got fed up, as I was having audio/video sync problems anyway, and I spent $184. American dollars on a datavideo DAC-100 converter and I now import excellent video and audio from anywhere through IEEE1394 input. I had spent over $200. on the Asus card and I'm going to have to live with that knowledge. There are more expensive and higher rated conversion boxes, but this is as good as my eyes need and as cheap as the "Dazzle" (crap converters.) The Datavideo converter has S-vid in and outs, Composite Vid + Aud in and outs, and 2 1394 in or outs, Pal or NTSC and other switches for audio rate and some other stuff I've never used.