capture PAL how?

External Since: Dec 18, 2003 Posts: 65

I have a PAL miniDV tape and a NTSC sony trv900 camcorder.
The tape plays and displays fine on the build-in LCD screen.
And according to what I found on the web, it also outputs PAL video via
firewire.

However, when I try to capture the video via firewire, I got a video that
looks like it was cut into many little rectangles and scrambled (about 45 x
27 rectangles).

I tried capturing with movie maker, DVIO, virtualdub, scenalyzer, and
premiere pro. All results in this scrambled capture except premiere which
captured nothing at all. Scenalyzer results in the best capture with audio
that is shifted higher in pitch. The other captures don't have sound or stop
capture after a few seconds.

The capture works fine with NTSC tapes.

Is there something I have to do in windowsXP to enable PAL capture? I
noticed all the captured avis are 720 x 480 but should be 720 x 576 for PAL.

External Since: Sep 16, 2006 Posts: 60

The PAL hardware doesn't actually output NTSC, it puts in into a format that
the NTSC capturing hardware can 'understand' and display but can't capture.

You'd need to get a multistandard multisystem VCR or a second tuner/capture
card which is in PAL and use the PC. If you want to go the VCR route, a
Samsung SV5000W is the one you should be looking for.

If you want to go the tuner/capture route, get one from Europe/Australia
from eBay. Remember it must specifically say PAL in the auction
description. (on the left hand side, remember to check Worldwide as your
search area)
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"peter" <nospam.TakeThisOut@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I have a PAL miniDV tape and a NTSC sony trv900 camcorder.
> The tape plays and displays fine on the build-in LCD screen.
> And according to what I found on the web, it also outputs PAL video via
> firewire.
>
> However, when I try to capture the video via firewire, I got a video that
> looks like it was cut into many little rectangles and scrambled (about 45
> x 27 rectangles).
>
> I tried capturing with movie maker, DVIO, virtualdub, scenalyzer, and
> premiere pro. All results in this scrambled capture except premiere which
> captured nothing at all. Scenalyzer results in the best capture with audio
> that is shifted higher in pitch. The other captures don't have sound or
> stop capture after a few seconds.
>
> The capture works fine with NTSC tapes.
>
> Is there something I have to do in windowsXP to enable PAL capture? I
> noticed all the captured avis are 720 x 480 but should be 720 x 576 for
> PAL.
>