capturing PAL miniDV on NTSC DV camcorder fia 1394 ?

eman wrote on 6/13/2003, 12:27 PM
Today I tried capturing a PAL miniDV tape via an NTSC DV camcorder connected via firewire. It didnt' work in Vegas. I tried scenalyzer too just to make sure but nothing there either.

Technically this should work no? Since out the firewire it's only 1010101101010 etc... digital signal so it shouldn't matter. BUT I think the design of this particluar camera is flawed. It wants to play the footage on the LCD everytime you play it back. If it THINKS there's not footage or the tape is blank etc.. it won't play anything and neither will firewire (ie.. won't capture a blank NTSC tape)

Obviuosly the cam cannot play the footage (PAL). I get a green blocky image for a second on the computer then nothing. In premiere it doesn't even capture.

Any experienced people here know what to do? Should I just try capturing from another NTSC camera and see if that works, if not, just rent a PAL camera or deck for a day?

Let me know

Comments

Former user wrote on 6/13/2003, 12:29 PM
A PAL tape (digital or analog) will not play in an NTSC camera or player. YOu need to get a PAL camera or player.

Dave T2
Finatic13 wrote on 6/13/2003, 12:33 PM
a few of the Sony dv camcorders in the UK will actually PLAY both NTSC and PAL, although only record in PAL. not sure about Sony's in any other countries though
regards
si
RBartlett wrote on 6/13/2003, 1:57 PM
Not many low end DV decks, but many DVCAM and DVCPro decks even go as far as to have a menu setting or external switch to select the mode.

With HD be the path to a global region specification?
O F C O U R S E N O T !

Now if the PAL camera is going to be used again, an exernal hard disc store could be sent instead. Something like a FireStore, this wouln't give you the same trouble and the acquisition would be faster than realtime too. PAL miniDV cameras are less than $480. Many half decent DV decks (with better than consumer mechanisms if you beieve the hype) are >$1800.