Video help please

[beemk]

I got a video my friend that lives in england took while she was here. She mailed me a DV tape but when i play it it looks all scrambled. I'm thinking mabye they have a different format over there. How can i transfer it to the correct format?

[BV]

you probably will need a player that plays PAL
you are probably playing on a NTSC player

[UnseenWorld]

Originally posted by BV
you probably will need a player that plays PAL
you are probably playing on a NTSC player

If you look in the Yellow Pages you may find a local service (assuming you're in a reasonably large city) that can copy it to NTSC for you, if that indeed is what your problem is. Look under video categories: video labs, video recording, video copying, stuff like that.

[beemk]

thanks, is there a way to transfer it to the computer and convert it or anything like that?

[beemk]

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[AaronM]

Originally posted by beemk
I got a video my friend that lives in england took while she was here. She mailed me a DV tape but when i play it it looks all scrambled. I'm thinking mabye they have a different format over there. How can i transfer it to the correct format?

You can get the same scrambled look if the heads on your player are dirty. Could be a much simpler fix but it is so obvious that I doubt you would have overlooked that possibility.

[Oliver Klozov]

You sure it was a DV (digial video) tape?

Or was it a VHS?

If it is DV what type of DV?

Mini DV
DVCAM
DigiBeta
ect ect ect

[beemk]

yeah i know its not dirty because i played it on the camera and it was scrambled, then i played a different tape and it worked fine. its a mini dv tape and my camera is a dv camera.

[newgrade]

you have to bring it to a store where they can convert it yes, pal has more lines then ntsc so when you play pal on a ntsc vidcam it looks like its scrambled and stretched, most of the time b/w with green lines. There are ways to set a DV cam to pal or ntsc, but its risky, try to lookup if the cams ntsc or pal at the company site eg www.sony.com

also : some pal cams and vcr's have ntsc playback dont know if thats vice versa as well, maybe it is...

[Master_Yoba]

1st of all you need to know proper format of this tape and your equipment. If there are different formats you got a problem.

We have a long time experience with PAL/NTSC troubles. Cause we shoot on Sony VX-2000 NTSC miniDV camcorder and some of our European customers can?t view it properly and/or capture.

(1) You can?t view NTSC tapes on PAL equipment (or reversal mode);

(2) You can?t capture NTSC reordered video into your PC if you play the tape on PAL equipment (or reversal mode);

(3) You can?t get pal signal if you simply dub tapes by using different types of consumer electronics;

(4) No one miniDV consumer recorder records in different formats;

(5) You can just transcode video signal. For this purpose you need Pal/NTSC transcoder. You can rent it on your local TV station (like we do). This is professional broadcasting equipment and it costs several thousands of dollars and a nearest consumer electronics shop don?t sell it (no online merchants too)

If anybody knows better and/or cheaper way I will donate some content him