8mm tapes PAL with NTSC camcorder????

[igorv]

I am living in Canada and I have some 8mm tapes of my kids whan we lived in Europe. How I can transfer tham to DVD or HD on my PC???? Is there any way to use NTSC camcorder or some of You can give me other instructions.
Thanks.

[filmboss80]

No. It cannot be done. Either try to buy a PAL camcorder on ebay (you'd still have to deal with the issue of making them playable in NTSC) or send the tapes out to a service that specializes in video standards conversions.

[igorv]

After I post it, I finde some Thread in this forum and i am vondering is this posible???

Put the camcorder in play/pause mode *before* opening WMM. Because you have an NTSC camcorder, when it isn't actually
playing/recording anything, it sends data down the FireWire that tells the other end that it is NTSC.

When WMM sees the camcorder and connects to it for capture, it thinks (correctly) that it is NTSC and sets everything up that way.

If a tape is playing, WMM will see it as whatever format the tape is - in your case PAL.

The distorted picture you are probably seeing is PAL being incorrectly decoded as NTSC by your PC and not the camcorder. It usually looks like a crazy version of that puzzle where you move blocks around in a square to make a picture/phrase etc.

If this trick works then it will work with WinDV in the same way.

If is not posible, can i use NTSC camcorder to transfer tape "as is" over FireWire and capture card to PC and after try to "do something" with that video file and convert him to NTSC.???????

[igorv]

Here is link:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/280845-PAL-mini-DV-tape-in-NTSC-camera

[filmboss80]

Here is link:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/280845-PAL-mini-DV-tape-in-NTSC-camera

Interesting thread. Suggests that it is possible with certain Sony models. I'm still extremely skeptical. The only way to find out is to try it.

[danno78]

No way with Video8 or Hi8 tapes! For MinDV or Digital8 tapes can be true.
Pal Hi8 camcorders is required. Pal models can play NTSC tapes, but NTSC camcorders don`t play PAL tapes.