NTSC video capture from UK VHS video player

[waylander69]

Hi
I have an NTSC video that I want to transfer to DVD,

If I get an NTSC video capture card for my PC does anyone think that I should be able to use my UK origin VHS player to play the video and capture the image on my pc ?

Can anyone recomend any good capture cards ?

cheers
G

[dj4monie]

All you need is a good capture card and an NTSC playback VCR.

The card will make the conversion.

I'm about to do the reverse which is a PAL VHS into a PAL VCR outputing to my ATI AIW set to capture in PAL format which in turn produce a PAL picture on my PC monitor. From there I can make the conversion to NTSC for playback on our DVD player(s)

[dj4monie]

Oh -

I'm not sure what card you would need. My AIW is a tuner card so it has the ability to make the conversion because its designed to playback different formats.

[waylander69]

Hi
thanks for your thoughts, think I'll try a tuner card as you say
cheers
G

[The_Doman]

Most PAL vcr''s with NTSC playback will put out a PAL60 signal.

Not all capture/tuner cards can accept that signal.

[markiz2001]

Which software would you use to select and capture PAL source? i tried virtualdub and others and they all have the same 2 ntsc sources and 15 pal sources but all 15 pal sources dont work.

how do you select/tell the program that the source is PAL at 60hz.

I have ATI AiW Radeon 7500. would that have PAL 60hz compatabillity? ati website doesnt say anything about that under aiw7500 description.

I think that my problem is that the PAL-VCR with ntsc playback outputs a PAL60 signal (if what you said above is true and relevant to my sitation) and there's no way to change it in the VCR.
Also I have a PAL->NTSC standalone converter that is stupid and requires a 50hz compatible ntsc tv to display properly in ntsc. If it also requires a PAL50 signal input then I am also out of luck. If that's not the problem then...
I can't find a sofware/setting where i can SELECT PAL at 50hz or 60hz as the input .

please help

[dj4monie]

In the TV Setup, under the Video tab, there Broadcast Standard Pull-Down, PAL60 is listed there (last PAL standard).

I'm using MMC 9.08

But I think all the MMC's have that setting