pal svcd to ntsc dvd problem chicken man help!
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ipdave
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The JVC is NTSC only. Your PAL tapes from the ol' UK camera cannot play in the JVC unfortunately.
On the bright side, since both are Digital (DV) cameras, if you get someone who has a DV camera there in Scotland/UK, you can have them hook up a Firewire (IEEE1394) cable to it and a PC. Then they can offload your old tapes to the PC and convert them to DVD's and burn them to DVD-R discs.
Once you have the old tapes on DVD, you can use the tapes in your new camera (tape over them).
;-)
On the bright side, since both are Digital (DV) cameras, if you get someone who has a DV camera there in Scotland/UK, you can have them hook up a Firewire (IEEE1394) cable to it and a PC. Then they can offload your old tapes to the PC and convert them to DVD's and burn them to DVD-R discs.
Once you have the old tapes on DVD, you can use the tapes in your new camera (tape over them).
;-)
ipdave
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... depends WHAT you have on those tapes ...
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A firewire cable. A PC with firewire port. Software to capture (MS MovieMaker, Scenalyzer, Adobe Premier, Pinnacle Studio).
18gb HD space per 90 min tape. 4-5gb for MPG file. 4gb for DVD (VOB) authored files. DVD burner to put to disk.
Then you can have a digital copy of the tapes and write over them with the new camera.
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A firewire cable. A PC with firewire port. Software to capture (MS MovieMaker, Scenalyzer, Adobe Premier, Pinnacle Studio).
18gb HD space per 90 min tape. 4-5gb for MPG file. 4gb for DVD (VOB) authored files. DVD burner to put to disk.
Then you can have a digital copy of the tapes and write over them with the new camera.
ipdave
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I know that Dazzle makes a capture card with software, but you get better results with a DV camera and Firewire - it's all digital.
The Dazzle (PCI card version) is about $200, and uses SVHS or Analog RCA jacks to capture from TV, VCRs, etc. The only good thing is that it will capture PAL or NTSC. I lived for 9 years in Europe (6 in NL, 3 in D), and have some PAL tapes - so I bought a PAL/NTSC VCR and used the Dazzle card to get them to PAL DVD that I can play. I also have PAL DVDs - Allo, Allo and Corrs Vids - but just converted the DVDs to region free and left as PAL (many DVD players can play either format on either TV).
I would recommend Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture from your DV camera to your PC. It can also make the DVD for you if you want an all-in-1 package. Otherwise, there are other programs that are not too expensive to author the DVD from MPG to VOB format to burn. If you don't have a DVD burner, you can also convert MPG to SVCD MPGs and burn to regular CDRs to play in a DVD player, but the full quality of the DV camera will not be had... :-(
The Dazzle (PCI card version) is about $200, and uses SVHS or Analog RCA jacks to capture from TV, VCRs, etc. The only good thing is that it will capture PAL or NTSC. I lived for 9 years in Europe (6 in NL, 3 in D), and have some PAL tapes - so I bought a PAL/NTSC VCR and used the Dazzle card to get them to PAL DVD that I can play. I also have PAL DVDs - Allo, Allo and Corrs Vids - but just converted the DVDs to region free and left as PAL (many DVD players can play either format on either TV).
I would recommend Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture from your DV camera to your PC. It can also make the DVD for you if you want an all-in-1 package. Otherwise, there are other programs that are not too expensive to author the DVD from MPG to VOB format to burn. If you don't have a DVD burner, you can also convert MPG to SVCD MPGs and burn to regular CDRs to play in a DVD player, but the full quality of the DV camera will not be had... :-(
ipdave
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