Perfect Hitman Posted June 21, 2013 Posted June 21, 2013 I have about 45 NTSC VHS tapes of 1989 and 1990 WWF stuff that I need to convert to DVD.The problem is, I want to convert them to NTSC DVD and NOT PAL or PAL 60.UK DVD Recorders can only, at best, record in PAL60 which is not TRUE NTSC so I don't want that.What equipment do I need to do this properly?
Paid Members SiMania Posted June 21, 2013 Paid Members Posted June 21, 2013 VHS player that plays pure NTSC and a DVD recorder that records pure NTSC, best import them both from the states.
Perfect Hitman Posted June 21, 2013 Author Posted June 21, 2013 VHS player that plays pure NTSC and a DVD recorder that records pure NTSC, best import them both from the states.But would an NTSC VCR and DVD Recorder work over here? It's a different plug and would it be compatible with a PAL TV?
Paid Members BigJag Posted June 22, 2013 Paid Members Posted June 22, 2013 You will need to know the voltage requirements for the unit.If the unit converts the AC input via an external power supply or within the item itself. You can usually get away with swapping the power supply lead for a UK one, if you have an external power supply.Can you watch your tapes at the moment? How are you doing that?
Perfect Hitman Posted June 22, 2013 Author Posted June 22, 2013 You will need to know the voltage requirements for the unit.If the unit converts the AC input via an external power supply or within the item itself. You can usually get away with swapping the power supply lead for a UK one, if you have an external power supply.Can you watch your tapes at the moment? How are you doing that?I can watch the tapes no problem on my TV through my PAL VCR and it plays perfectly. The problem is, as soon as I try and hook up to a DVD Recorder or a PC capture device, it doesn't work and only outputs at PAL 60 which means that the picture is stuttering noticeably and is not smooth. Makes sense because its a true 60HZ picture and my DVD Recorder and capture device obviously can't output true NTSC.It's going to cost about
Paid Members chokeout Posted June 22, 2013 Paid Members Posted June 22, 2013 What capture device have you used. Have you got the specs for it?
Paid Members SiMania Posted June 22, 2013 Paid Members Posted June 22, 2013 What about if you could get a true Pal signal and recorded to a pal dvd recorder. Would you be happy with that?
Perfect Hitman Posted June 22, 2013 Author Posted June 22, 2013 What about if you could get a true Pal signal and recorded to a pal dvd recorder. Would you be happy with that?Possibly. How could I do that?And I have no idea what capture card I have, sorry.
hallicks Posted June 22, 2013 Posted June 22, 2013 I can watch the tapes no problem on my TV through my PAL VCR and it plays perfectly. The problem is, as soon as I try and hook up to a DVD Recorder or a PC capture device, it doesn't work and only outputs at PAL 60 which means that the picture is stuttering noticeably and is not smooth. Makes sense because its a true 60HZ picture and my DVD Recorder and capture device obviously can't output true NTSC.Your VCR must have some multi-region capability if it can play back NTSC stuff without problems. I tried a PAL VHS on a fairly new NTSC VCR over here the other day and I got no picture and sped up audio. How are you trying to capture on PC? Have you tried altering the capture settings? If the VCR is doing some sort of conversion maybe you need to set it to PAL-50 instead of 60.
King Pitcos Posted June 22, 2013 Posted June 22, 2013 The problem with capturing it is the VCR. While modern TVs will reconcile the neither-Arthur-nor-Martha PAL 60 output that it's putting out, recording/capture devices won't. They want only true PAL or NTSC signals. So if you could get a VCR that's outputting true NTSC, you should be alright (providing your capture card will do NTSC, which I'd assume it will but if you could find out the model/spec you'd know for sure).There were a lot of Thomson VCRs released in the nineties that had true NTSC output. If you could find out which ones, you could probably get one fairly cheap on eBay or a car boot sale etc. I don't know how you could find out which ones had it though. I think most of them did, but not all.
Paid Members SiMania Posted June 23, 2013 Paid Members Posted June 23, 2013 What about if you could get a true Pal signal and recorded to a pal dvd recorder. Would you be happy with that?Possibly. How could I do that?And I have no idea what capture card I have, sorry.If you can get your hands on one then a Samsung sv-5000w takes just and outputs to pure Pal. Not sure how easy it is to get your hands on one these today.
Perfect Hitman Posted June 23, 2013 Author Posted June 23, 2013 What about if you could get a true Pal signal and recorded to a pal dvd recorder. Would you be happy with that?Possibly. How could I do that?And I have no idea what capture card I have, sorry.If you can get your hands on one then a Samsung sv-5000w takes just and outputs to pure Pal. Not sure how easy it is to get your hands on one these today.Thank you very much for the tip on this. To be honest though, I really don't want to convert it and want to keep it in true NTSC.Think my only solution is to buy an NTSC VCR and NTSC DVD Recorder.
Perfect Hitman Posted June 23, 2013 Author Posted June 23, 2013 The problem with capturing it is the VCR. While modern TVs will reconcile the neither-Arthur-nor-Martha PAL 60 output that it's putting out, recording/capture devices won't. They want only true PAL or NTSC signals. So if you could get a VCR that's outputting true NTSC, you should be alright (providing your capture card will do NTSC, which I'd assume it will but if you could find out the model/spec you'd know for sure).There were a lot of Thomson VCRs released in the nineties that had true NTSC output. If you could find out which ones, you could probably get one fairly cheap on eBay or a car boot sale etc. I don't know how you could find out which ones had it though. I think most of them did, but not all.I found the name of my capture card. Its: Hauppauge WinTV 885. It's an SMI Device Grabber I am using to try and capture though.So if I could get a Thomson VCR which outputs TRUE NTSC (Has 3.58 Playback), then would it work hooking up the Thomson VCR to my SMI Device Grabber and trying to capture in TRUE NTSC?Right now because I'm playing my videos on VCR WITHOUT TRUE NTSC, the capture software is only giving me the choice to capture in NTSC 4.43 (which is PAL 60) and the picture is stuttery and jumpy.I just want to be sure before spending
King Coconut Posted June 23, 2013 Posted June 23, 2013 Any bt8xx based capture card with btwincap drivers will recognise and capture PAL 60.
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